As you know Blogger shows ?m=1 in URL when someone visits the site from Mobile devices. It looks a little odd and most of the users don’t like this.
Having a clean URL gives your website a professional look and you don’t want separate URLs for Desktop and Mobile devices.
So, In this article, I will show you how you can Delete the ?m=1 URL parameter from your Blogger website. I will also tell you should you implement this on your website or not.
Why Blogger shows ?m=1 in Mobile URLs ?
Blogger is quite outdated now and earlier most of the Blogger themes doesn’t use the responsive design. Most themes show different versions for Desktop and mobile users.
So, to identify the Device properly Blogger introduces the concept of ?m=1 parameter in the blogger URL. So, whenever Someone accesses your Blog from Mobile or tablet, it will show a URL structure like this.
https://www.techyleaf.in/?m=1
As most modern themes use a responsive design and don’t display separate versions for different screen sizes, there is no need for Changing this URL parameter.
Currently, there is no permanent fix to this problem, but you can display a clean URL to the visitors when they land on your website through a mobile device.
Here, you need to use a script that does the job for you. So, let’s check how you can fix the ?m=1 problem on the Blogger website.
Watch the below video to learn more.
How to remove ?m=1 from Blogger
To remove the ?m=1 from Blogger URL, follow the below steps.
Step-1: Go to Blogger dashboard and select the theme option
Step-2: Now click on the “Edit HTML” option from the drop-down menu.
Step-3: Now you have to add the below script just below the <head> tag.
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var uri = window.location.toString();
if (uri.indexOf("%3D","%3D") > 0) {
var clean_uri = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf("%3D"));
window.history.replaceState({}, document.title, clean_uri);
}
var uri = window.location.toString();
if (uri.indexOf("%3D%3D","%3D%3D") > 0) {
var clean_uri = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf("%3D%3D"));
window.history.replaceState({}, document.title, clean_uri);
}
var uri = window.location.toString();
if (uri.indexOf("&m=1","&m=1") > 0) {
var clean_uri = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf("&m=1"));
window.history.replaceState({}, document.title, clean_uri);
}
var uri = window.location.toString();
if (uri.indexOf("?m=1","?m=1") > 0) {
var clean_uri = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf("?m=1"));
window.history.replaceState({}, document.title, clean_uri);
}
//]]>
</script>Step-4: Now save the code and the ?m=1 will be removed from the blogger website for mobile devices.
If the above code is not working well then you can use the below code to remove the ?m=1 from the Blogger URL in Mobile.
<script>/*<![CDATA[*/ var uri = window.location.toString();if (uri.indexOf("?m=1","?m=1") > 0) {var clean_uri = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf("?m=1"));window.history.replaceState({}, document.title, clean_uri); }; /*]]>*/</script>Now the biggest question is should you remove them ?m=1 from your Blogger website using a script or not?
is it affect your Blog SEO and does it improve the speed of Blogger?
Well, the answer is a little tricky. Using this script doesn’t remove the ?m=1 from the blogger URL permanently. Instead, it again redirects this URL to the original URL in the user’s Browser.
So, if you want a clean URL then you can use it just below the <head> tag of your theme file.
And remember that it doesn’t improve the speed that much and the speed fluctuation is not due to this redirect, it is due to the server response time.
In fact, I am not using this script on my Blogger site. But there is no problem using this script.
Removing the ?m=1 from the mobile URL gives your website a professional look and you can try this on your website.
If you still have some doubts, feel free to ask me in the comment section. For more Blogger and Wordpress tutorials you can follow our YouTube channel.
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adding value. good post
thanks, really appreciate this trick. 10 thumbs up..
I really love your content . It really helps me with my blog.
How can I remove HTML tags from my blogger URL
is it safe…?sire
Not recommended for Old websites.
Would it affect on SEO of website?
Yes, it may affect. I don’t recommend using it on the main website.
My blogger home main url is look like this “https://mysite.blogspot.com/?m=1” so if i want to setup a canonical home url so which one should to write as part of google value or seo optimized .
1. “https://mysite.com”
2. “https://mysite.com/?m=1”
You should choose the 1st One as the canonical URL for your website.
By removing ?m=1, problems like Page with redirect are coming. At the same time many problems are coming in google search consle.
That’s Why I don’t recommend it on old live site…