While blogger is a decent platform for simple blogging sites, if you do use it, you might have noticed when trying to index a page in search console, you will often get a redirect error.
Why is this?
Well, every Blogger post has two versions:
- Desktop version
- Mobile version
The mobile version looks like this: your-post-url.html?m=1
This is not a duplicate page in the traditional sense.
It’s Blogger’s mobile rendered version of the same content that shows up automatically for mobile devices via a redirect.
The problem here is, because Google uses mobile indexing now for the most part, it sees a redirect instead of a stable page, and thus, you get the error.
Because on Blogger:
- Mobile rendering is built into the platform
- Google understands the structure
- Canonicals are handled internally
How To Avoid the Redirect Error
Publish the Post
Don’t touch anything else yet.
Copy the Mobile URL
Add ?m=1 to the end of the post URL manually.
Submit This URL in Search Console
Use URL Inspection → Request Indexing.
Do Nothing
Let Google crawl the mobile version, and it will index.
Once Google indexes the mobile version:
- Blogger usually consolidates the canonical
- The desktop URL becomes the primary version
- The mobile URL stops being needed
At that point, do not resubmit the ?m=1 URL again.
That’s when redirect issues start.
When To NOT Use This Method
Skip it if:
- the post is already indexed
- the site is aged and crawled frequently and indexes automatically
This is a new-site acceleration tactic, not a forever strategy.
