Country-specific URL. Blog Analytics

Blogs on Blogger.com now may have serveral URL's: one ending with .com, and another one ending with a country-specific domain. Please learn more at the following Blogger support page.

One of the affected areas with this change is the access to blog analytics panel. In case your blog is approved, and you are not able to authenticate, then simply change the head section of your blog to:

<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://blog-name.blogspot.com"/>

where "blog-name" should be your claimed blog's name, and the URL ending with .com - for cases a country-specific domain was being referred instead. As a result the authentication should be ok, both while accessing our analytics panel, as well as when using your blog URL to authenticate to other services (i.e. acts as OpenID identifier). The above header change works for blogs with traditional blog layouts - since the templates are editable, while Dynamic Views aren't for the time being.

While entering your blog at blogupp.com, also please be advised to submit the blog URL ending with .com, since http://blog-name.blogspot.com and http://blog-name.blogspot.es (or .fr, .it, etc) appear to us as different blog addresses, and country-specific ending might change in time. That will ensure that you keep the analytics consistent under your fixed .com URL and the widget active.

Are there any other effects you've noticed with above mentioned country-specific Blogger.com change? Please share with us in the comments below.

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