Set-up A Custom Domain GoDaddy to The Blogger Blog –
In this post you will learn, How can you Setup A Custom Domain to The Blogger Blog.
If you have created a blog on blogger.com and you purchased a new Custom Domain from GoDaddy and Now you want to connect the Custom to your blog then please read all the points carefully.
First of all, Go to your Blogger Dashboard, click on Settings, Scroll down to the Publishing section you will see your blog address (example.blogspot.com), click on “Custom domain“.
Now enter your new Custom domain in the box, and don’t forget to enter ‘www‘ before your new Custom Domain (www.YourNewDomain.com).
Click on the ‘Save‘ button. After clicking on the save button you may see an error in red color that means you need to verify your custom domain.
To verify your Domain, Go through the following steps.
(I). Sign In to your GoDaddy account.
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| Sign In to GoDaddy Account |
(II). Click on ‘my products’after that Click on ‘DNS’
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| Click on ‘My products’ and then DNS’ |
(III). After clicking on ‘DNS‘ you will reach on this page (see screenshot below).
(IV). Now you have to add 2 ‘CNAME’ records and 4 ‘A’ records in your DNS records. Click on the “ADD” button to add these records.
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| Screenshot of DNS Records |
(V). After clicking on “ADD” button, Click on the drop-down button to Select ‘CNAME‘ in the first box.
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| Click on Drop Down |
(VI). Now Select ‘CNAME‘
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| Select ‘CNAME’ |
(VII). Now enter ‘www‘ in the second box.
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| Enter ‘www’ in the Second Box |
(VIII). Again Go to your Blogger settings and copy this text (see screenshot below).
(IX). Go to DNS settings and paste this text here (see screenshot below).
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| Paste ‘ghs.google.com’ |
(X). Click on ‘save‘. If it is not saved and gives any error then click on the ‘cancel‘ button.
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| If unable to save, Click on Cancel |
(XI). Now find this record and click on the ‘edit‘ icon.
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| Click on Edit Icon |
(XII). Now paste that text here (see screenshot) and click on the ‘save‘ button.
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| Paste ‘ghs.google.com’ and click on ‘save’ |
(XIV). Now it will look like this, and Again click on the “ADD” button.
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| Again Click on “ADD” Button |
(XV). After clicking on the “ADD” button, Select ‘CNAME‘ in the first box.
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| Select ‘CNAME’ |
(XVI). Again Go to your Blogger settings and copy this text (see screenshot below).
(XVII). Go to DNS settings and paste this text here (see screenshot below).
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| Paste This Text Here |
(XVIII). Again Go to your Blogger settings and copy this text (see screenshot below).
(XIX). Go to DNS settings and paste this text here(see screenshot). Click on ‘Save‘ button.
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| Paste This Text Here and Click on Save |
(XX). Again Go to the blogger settings and turn on the “Redirect domain” (see the screenshot below), so that the user can redirect from yourDomain.com to www.yourDomain.com
Your 2 ‘CNAME‘ records have been added successfully.
Now you have to add 4 ‘A’ records in DNS records.
This is an optional step, but I would recommend you must complete this step because if you do not complete this then it will cause problems when you will apply for AdSense. This is also important to properly redirect your readers from “mydomain.com” to “www.mydomain.com”
(I). Go to the link provided here.
(II). Now you will reach on this official page of Google. Scroll down and then you will see 4 I.P. of Google.
(IV). You have to add all these 4 I.P. Of Google to your DNS records one by one. Now copy the first I.P from here (see screenshot below).
(V). Again Go to DNS settings and Click on the “ADD” button (see screenshot below).
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| Again Click on ‘ADD’ button in your DNS settings |
(VI). Select ‘A’ in the first box and enter ‘@’ in the second box after that paste the first I.P in the third box and click on ‘save‘ button (see screenshot).
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| Select ‘A’ in the first box, enter ‘@’ in the second box, paste the first I.P in the third box, click on ‘save’ button |
(VII). Now you have to add all another 3 I.P in ‘A’ record by the same procedure shown above.
(VIII). When you will add all the 4 I.P of Google then it will look like this.
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| All the Four I.Ps Together |
After 20 – 30 minutes of setting up all these things, your site will start to open on your new Custom Domain.
If you face any problems while setting up all these things then use the comment section and explain your issue.
