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How to Fix the ?m=1 Blogger Mobile Redirect Problem

October 1, 2014 · Katie Clark · 18 Comments

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One of my areas of expertise are Blogger to WordPress transfers. As such, I’ve encountered just about every problem and error that can come from moving your blog to Blogger from WordPress. In short, you should not see a drop in traffic. If you do, something has gone wrong with the transfer.
The single most common issue I find people having is that their Blogger Mobile Redirect (Blogger adds a ?m=1 to the end of these links) is not redirecting correctly. This never happened until a few months ago, but every blog I have transferred lately has, even with the help of the Blogger 301 Redirect Plugin (my redirect plugin of choice.) I finally was able to figure out how to solve this problem, and it’s a pretty easy fix! I found this post, which is great, but I thought I would provide a more step-by-step tutorial for those of you who have no idea how to find your .htaccess file!
First, go login to Cpanel via your hosting account.
Navigate to File Manager. Click File Manager, press the radio button for “document root”, and then check the box for “show hidden files.” Then press “Go”.
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A new page will open, which essentially has all the files your site contains. This is where I always go if a file needs to be fixed or edited. htaccess-9014825
You will want to find the .htaccess file. You can see it at the very end of the screenshot above. Click on that, and then the code editor option at the top of the page. It will give you a warning about saving a backup, and then you can click on edit or cancel. Obviously, press edit.
A new window will open. Sometimes there will be a lot of text here to sort through, but if you just migrated to WordPress, you probably will be able to find this piece of code pretty easily:
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After you’ve located it, you will take this code:
[code language=”css”]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^m=1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L]
[/code]
And place it directly below the RewriteBase / part of the code above. It should look like this:
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Press save changes, and you should be good to go! Go check your posts and see that they are working. If you need any help or want someone to do this for you, I charge $15 for mobile redirection fixes. Good luck!

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  1. kENAN MİROGLU says

    December 10, 2014 at 3:12 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCH DEAR KATİ CLARK. I APPLY YOUR DİRECTİONS FOR MY OLD BLOGGER İNDEXES OF MY MOBİLE SİTE VERSİON LİKE “WWW.EXAMPLE/…../M=1”. AFTER THAT METHOD ALL OF MY İNDEXES İS WORKİNG CLEARLY.
    I’M SO GLAD OF YOUR HELPFUL POST FOR THİS PROBLEM. NOBODY TELLS BETTER THAN YOU. THAK YOU SO MUCH AGAİN:)))

    Reply
  2. Ben says

    December 20, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    I’ve tried this, and it works for a day or two, and then it appears WordPress clears out the change made. I did a little reading and it appears that this is expected to happen. Any thing added in between # BEGIN WordPress and #END WordPress will be erased by WordPress regularly.
    Have you had this issue? How would you recommend I remedy this issue, as I need this rewrite rule to stay permanently on the site.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 28, 2015 at 3:51 pm

      I would just recommend putting it at the very top of the htaccess file, before the #BEGIN I’m so sorry that I never responded to this!

      Reply
  3. jazuly says

    April 16, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    its working, but my wordpess always reload….

    Reply
    • Katie says

      June 10, 2015 at 11:46 am

      Hmm what do you mean?

      Reply
  4. Ashley Berry says

    January 6, 2016 at 8:01 am

    Will this help with redirecting when Pinterest pins are clicked on? I migrated from Blogger to WP in November and my traffic has really dropped but I realized all of my old pins still direct to the Blogger blog so I’m still getting traffic to that website.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      March 13, 2016 at 1:49 pm

      Yep, it should help! Also make sure you turned off your mobile site on Blogger.

      Reply
  5. John says

    April 15, 2017 at 12:51 am

    Really great post. I am enjoyed your article. Thanks for sharing a great tips with us

    Reply
  6. Sanjeet says

    March 9, 2018 at 8:44 am

    Hi,
    I have a problem, old blog site redirecting properly on PC but not working for mobile.
    Can you help me please.
    Than you

    Reply
    • Justino says

      September 3, 2018 at 11:27 am

      Turn off mobile theme…

      Reply
  7. John Mac says

    April 18, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    How about the ?m=0 format for mobile URL, this one is also needed to be dealt with, so far after a few times make blog walking I only meet the ?m=1 fixing tutorials but not ?m=0.

    Reply
  8. Emily in Ecuador says

    July 31, 2018 at 8:04 pm

    Kathie and Forrest, Thank you so much for writing this post! It fixed my redirect issue and I am so thankful!

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 29, 2018 at 5:58 pm

      I’m so glad!

      Reply
  9. manu Dhiman says

    December 15, 2018 at 4:47 pm

    Thankyou Sir i am doing this trick on my website and its working. Thnkyou very much.
    Great article love from Manu??.

    Reply
  10. TimHexa says

    December 29, 2018 at 11:49 am

    maybe it works on self hosted site.
    But,
    how do i remove ?m=1 on Blogger platform? since there is no cpanel in blogger.
    I really need that code to be gone, or redirected from ?m=1 to ?m=0, using some kind of javascript or jquery maybe.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      December 29, 2018 at 5:57 pm

      Unfortunately this is only a fix for WordPress, not blogger.

      Reply
  11. Fortizo Light says

    March 29, 2020 at 7:40 am

    Thanks, was able to fix my blogger redirection for my blog Fortizo Light

    Reply

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