Blogger.com: Disable country domain redirects

I'm getting annoyed at my web traffic stats being all messed up because the URLs aren't being counted properly.

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People browsing from different part of the world are being redirected to their government friendly top level domains (TLD's) and it's just annoying.

This is meant to be the internet, a place where information roams free from the slow red tape of bureaucracy.

Thankfully, there's a quick fix for this and it doesn't involve any unnecessary pain.

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  • Firstly, log in to your blogger.com admin.
  • Secondly, open up the dashboard for your blog.
  • Click "Template"
  • Click "Edit HTML"
  • Click "Proceed"
  • Select "Expand Widget Templates" at the top.
  • Using your browser, search for </head>
  • Just before that, paste this in:
<script type="text/javascript">
function check_redirect(your_domain) {
if (window.location.host.split('.').pop() != your_domain.split('.').pop()) {
var new_url = window.location.href;
new_url = new_url.replace(window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.hostname, window.location.protocol + "//" + your_domain + "/ncr");
window.location.href = new_url;
}
}

check_redirect("twigstechtips.blogspot.com.au");
</script>
  • Change the 2nd last line to whatever you want your domain to be. In this case, I want to enforce it so everyone visits the .au one.
  • Click save.
  • Test it out!

Source

Originally I found the information from here, but from inspection it doesn't seem to cover all the domains I have been seeing in the stats such as .co.uk.

I've rewritten it a little so it does the domain detection and replacement better.

 
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