Holding Pattern Blogger Template is a new blogger template,this template is design by NewBloggerThemes.If you have any Problem in your Website or Due to any Solid reason you want to shut down your Website for some days You Can Add this Template to your Blog,This template will help you to put an awesome message for the visitors and readers of your blog.The message can be any thing such as "we are working on the improvement of our Blog please visit later or We are Currently Working On Our Blog Design Please Visit Later.This template is adapted from Wordpress having One Column Layout along with fixed Width.
You must have noticed that Blogspot's domain has been redirecting to country specific domains. Google has taken this step to provide country specific redirection in order to maintain regional censorship. If a country prohibits the content of a blog, Google will stop servicing that content in that country.
So what's the problem with redirection? Nothing if you don't care about your rankings, your ad campaigns and SEO practices. I am sure you do care about all these things. Here are some negative effects of your blogger domain redirection to country specific domain.
Regarding Rankings: Most of ranking systems differentiate between .com and .in. If you go and find your alexa rank of your blog with .com and .in or .co.uk, they will all be different. Now what is happening is your effort to improve your ranking is distributed among different domains.
SEO practices. So, your blogspot blog is hosted on .com, .co.uk, .co.uc, or .in domain? Isn't that a case of content duplicated? And if you know a little about SEO, you must be aware that it will affect badly? Google says regarding the country specific redirection that it is trying that SEO practices remain unaffected but its only "trying". It is affected negatively.
Ad campaigns. If you are with AdSense, its okay. But if you show ads of Media.net, where its compulsory to getting approved of each site to host ads, they will not count "clicks and impressions" for .in if you registered with .com. I personally contacted media.net representative about the problem, and what he said was, I have to manually submit all the domains. Now there are 100 countries from which I get traffic. Is it possible? They didn't get me to a solution.
Is there any solution? There is no problem without any solution. Personally, I have two of the best solution here.
Get a custom domain. Custom domains are not redirected to country specific domains. Buy one for your blog. Its not so costly. Blogger provides domain in as less as 10$ for a year, and with other domain hosting services, its even lower.
Not interested in buying a domain? Here is another solution.
Go to Blogger dashboard > Template > Edit HTML.
Back up your template in case something wrong happens.
Now search for the line <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>. Press Control + F and then search it.
Just below the line paste these lines,:
<script type="text/javascript"> var str= window.location.href.toString(); if ((str.indexOf('.com/'))=='-1') { var str1=str.substring(str.lastIndexOf(".blogspot.")); if (str1.indexOf('/')=='-1') { var str2=str1; } else { var str2=str1.substring(0,str1.indexOf('/')+1); } window.location.href =window.location.href.toString().replace(str2,'.blogspot.com/ncr/'); } </script>
Now, preview template to see if everything is okay.
Save templates. The work is done.
This javascript redirects country specific redirection back to .com domains. Although this will reduce site's loading speed, since there are two redirection, one from .com to country specific and then back to .com domain, but still its a good way if you really don't wanna go for a custom domain.
Seo Master present to you: This post is part of the Who's @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. Today's post is a guest post written by Scott Seely, Architect for the MySpace Open Platform.
MySpaceID delivers social functionality and experiences by linking MySpace accounts with your site. These services allow users to quickly register using their MySpace credentials as well as post status messages, publish activities into MySpace, discover friends, and view MySpace activity and profile data on your site! The users’ friends see all these updates, which drive traffic to your site and attract new users to register. By leveraging MySpace’s social graph, you add virally to the buzz about your site and increase the number of visitors to it.
For a broad overview of MySpaceID, please watch this video:
We provide SDKs for MySpaceID. You can use the SDKs or directly use our REST endpoints. We have SDKs available for a variety of languages: PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, and JavaScript. This brings the benefits of MySpaceID to a wide range of developers. The JavaScript SDK runs on the client, all other versions run on your servers. These options allow you to achieve smooth workflows and reduce implementation costs by working with the skills you use as a developer.
MySpaceID supports both OAuth and the OpenID-Auth hybrid—you choose the mechanism that makes the most sense for your scenario. Both options are exposed in our SDKs. Once a user logs in and allows your site to access their data, you have access to a wealth of their MySpace data. The MySpace endpoints support Portable Contacts and OpenSocial 0.9 REST, giving you access to plenty of information.
MySpace Apps provides developers with a canvas to create engaging social applications that are deeply integrated into MySpace. The applications are built using the OpenSocial specification, which we are evolving with partners like Google, and Yahoo!. With OpenSocial 0.9, you will see advances in markup, allowing you to remove much of your JavaScript and instead use OpenSocial Markup Language, OSML, to declare which friends you want loaded. This work all happens on MySpace’s servers, reducing calls for data and greatly improving the application experience. When you do need to contact your own servers, you can send Ajax calls through our proxies to your servers. These calls are all signed by the MySpace infrastructure so that you know the request came from a trusted source. The MySpaceID SDK allows your server to access and set MySpace user data in this scenario. So long as the user has installed your application, your servers can access their data.
These are some of the ways that MySpaceID enables you to leverage MySpace API’s off-site and let users into your site with their social media identity and data. Earlier this year, MySpace was the first social network to allow syndication of its users’ activity streams. We hope you are as excited as we are to be part of this fundamental shift in the portability of user identity and data on the Internet.
MySpace Apps and MySpaceID are a lot more than what we’ve talked about here. We invite you to find out more by attending:
“Building a Business with Social Apps” – Gerard Capiel, VP of Product for the MySpace Open Platform, will share his experiences on monetization of apps.
Developer Sandbox – Come by and see actual apps in action, try building an app on the spot, and talk to our developers.
Fireside Chat - Ask those hard questions, discuss approaches to problems, and think about the future with MySpace developers and the OpenSocial engineering team
We hope that you will come away convinced that MySpace is focused on empowering app owners and web site owners with the tools to succeed. See you at Google I/O!
Guest Post by Scott Seely, Architect for the MySpace Open Platform2013, By: Seo Master