The One thing that I love about blogger blogs apart from the fact that it is free, is the option to set up a custom domain to your blog. Setting up a custom domain gives us that extra edge that we have always been longing for. It is actually quite easy to set up a custom domain and you do not need to panic about the tweaks you need to apply in your domain's home page.
Follow this guide if you need to set a blogger custom domain.
Blogger Custom Domain
- Well, the first thing you need to do is to register your domain though any of the domain partners. There are many vendors out there but I strongly recommend Godaddy because of it's simple interface which is lot a less confusing than any other partners out there.
- Now that you have registered your domain which looks something like www.yourdomain.com, login to your registered account probably Godaddy or in whichever domain partner you have registered with.
- In your account search for DNS file editor and click on it. Some sites have it like DNS Settings. Here we need to create entries that point to your hosting account (Here your hosting account is blogger).
- Now we need to create two kinds of entries- A(host) records and CNAME records.
- First select "Add New Record" and select CNAME records. For the CNAME records login to your blogger dashboard and click on Settings.
- In that Go to Basic settings and select set-up third party URL. Here enter the full URL of the domain you have registered.
- Here you will be getting a pair of host names and their destinations or values. These are the values you need to add in your domain account.
- Add these values in the CNAME records section.
- After you add these, again select Add New Record and click on A (Host) records. In this category you need to provide @ in the Host section and in the Enter values field, enter the values given below.
212.239.32.21
212.239.34.21
212.239.36.21
212.239.38.21
- These are Google's IP addresses and these are used when a user enters your URL without the www.
- Now save all the changes in your domain dashboard as well as your blogger dashboard. Make sure to check redirect youdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com. This will redirect your visitor when he enters the non www version of your site.
- Now you have successfully set up a custom domain or URL to your blogger blog. Remember that it might take up to 48 hours for the setings to take effect. So please be patient.
After 48 hours, your will can be successfully accessed using your custom URL. If you have anything to say, please put them in the comments below.
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