Search Engines, Visitor Logs, Too Province Domains

Some weblog owners are seeing the late added Country Code Top Level Domain Aliases inwards their visitor logs / meters, as well as diverse non Google search engines.

Possibly unaware of the aliases, they are afraid that their weblog has been hacked.

My SiteMeter logs present that I've had incoming traffic from "mybloggerblog.blogspot.in". Clicking on i of the links inwards SiteMeter, I run across my blog, "mybloggerblog.blogspot.com". Has mortal cloned my blog?

In reality, the scenario is non as well as then ominous.

Those of us aware of the CC aliases, as well as how they are existence used past times Blogger, volition sympathize that only seeing a non canonical alias inwards our referer lists, inwards whatever search engine or visitor log / meter, is non an indication of malicious activity.

People unfamiliar amongst the province code aliases may endure confused.

People long used to seeing alone "blogspot.com" as well as "google.com", as well as non yet experienced amongst the CC aliases, may operate confused, however. Blogger blogs owners amongst long established blogs that bring audiences exterior the USA are likely used to seeing all references to their blogs based on the canonical URL, such equally "mybloggerblog.blogspot.com".

Now that BlogSpot published blogs are existence served using the CC aliases, inwards many countries exterior the USA, the readers of BlogSpot published blogs are seeing each weblog nether non "blogspot.com" URLs inwards around search engines, as well as inwards many visitor logs as well as meters.

Many search engines volition aggregate search references, to the canonical URL.

Most major search engines, which reference the "canonical" tag inwards the weblog header, are aggregating all SERP entries to role the "blogspot.com" URLs. Our of import search reputation is non existence fragmented, such that readers inwards Commonwealth of Australia furnish reputation to "blogspot.com.au", readers inwards Republic of Republic of India furnish reputation to "blogspot.in", readers inwards New Zealand furnish reputation to "blogspot.co.nz", as well as and then on.

Every hit, from every reader inwards every country, silent provides reputation to the canonical alias, "blogspot.com".

Some specialised search engines similar Alexa, DMOZ, etc - as well as close visitor logs similar SiteMeter, StatCounter, as well as Stats, may non endure designed to reference the canonical tag. It's besides possible that visitor logs, past times their nature, should non aggregate CC aliases to the canonical URL - equally the province code, relevant to the private readers, may endure of import to around weblog owners.

Until the canonical tag is used past times every Internet service, at that spot volition endure confusion.

Until the role of the canonical tag, as well as the CC aliases to our readers, becomes mature, it's possible that nosotros volition run across diverse oddities similar a perceived employment amongst Alexa, SiteMeter, or StatCounter. It's probable that non all Internet services volition always reference the canonical tag consistently, as well as aggregate all statistics as well as visitor demographics, canonically.

Given the latter probability, this may endure yet i to a greater extent than argue why Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken may never larn out of business.

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Some Confusion Over Use Of The CC TLD Aliases, By Search Engines And Visitor Logs
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Search Engines And Visitor Logs, And The Country Specific Domains
Search Engines, Visitor Logs, And Country Domains