Here is a complete guide on How to Use a Custom Domain Name for your Blog.
There are two ways you can publish your blog on Blogger – either by hosting it on Blogspot (Example.blogspot.com) or hosting on your own custom domain (www.example.com or foo.example.com). You can change where your blog is published at any time, and it won’t cause you to lose any content on your site.
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Purchase a custom domain. |
Before you move your blog to a custom domain, you need to have already purchased a custom domain from another provider.
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There are many companies you can buy domain names from, including:
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Note Carefully: If you’re residing in the United States, you can
also integrate Google Domains with Blogger.
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If your major or minor site’s content is in poles apart language and you’d like to purchase a country-specific custom domain name, you can do a search to find local registrars.
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For example, if your blog is in Spain and you’d like a www.example.esp domain, try searching for [domain registrar in Spain].
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On a top level domain e.g www.jaysciencetech.com OR |
On a subdomain like this one www.jayfiveoxide.blogspot.com or hun.johnson.com |
After you’ve purchased your custom
domain, follow the steps below:
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2. Type the URL of the domain you’ve purchased, keeping in mind that it must begin with www in order to work. ____________________________________ |
3. Click Save. ____________________________________ |
4. You should see an error, and two CNAMEs listed below. Each CNAME is composed of two parts – Name, Label or Host and Destination,Target or Points to. The first CNAME is the same for everyone, Name being “www” and Destination “ghs.google.com.” The second CNAME is particular to your blog and your Google Account, and is therefore different for each person. ______________________________________ |
5. Go to your domain registrar’s website and locate the DNS (Domain Name System) settings in the control panel. ___________________________________ |
6. Now it’s time to enter the CNAMEs. Where it says Name, Label or Host simply enter “www” and list ghs.google.com as the Destination, Target or Points to. __________________________________ |
Now enter the second CNAME in the same way. ___________________________________ VERY IMPORTANT : Now we have to create 4 more records in a similar fashion. The details to fill up while creating the records are as below; |
Sl # | Record Type | Host | Points to | TTL |
1 | A | @ | 216.239.32.21 | 1 Hour |
2 | A | @ | 216.239.34.21 | 1 Hour |
3 | A | @ | 216.239.36.21 | 1 Hour |
4 | A | @ | 216.239.38.21 | 1 Hour |
now have to configure your Blogger blog to publish to this new domain.
Publishing BlogSpot blog to Custom Domain.
Now we will configure the Blogger blog to publish itself to the new Custom Domain name.
- Login to your Blogger Dashboard and Navigate to Settings > Basic and make sure Blogger knows about your custom domain so that Google can direct readers to your blog. Just head back to Blogger and update the information
on your Settings | Basic tab. Find the area for
“Publishing,” and click the link to add a custom domain. - _________________________________
- That’s it! Your blogspot.com address will soon redirect to
your new custom domain — be patient, as it might take up to 24 hours for the redirect to start working. - If you’re still seeing an error after 24 hours, it means your settings weren’t entered correctly and you should try the process a second time.
Updated: 15/09/205