How to Add Custom Domain Name to blogger(Blogspot.com)

Welcome everybody, Today I am gonna tell you the secrete of adding custom domain names to blogger.com. Many of us who want to establish ourselves as a professional blogger have a blogger site. But most of us do not know how to add custom domain to blogger sites. Suppose your you have blog named www.myblog.blogspot.com, you want to change/convert your blogger site to the name www.myblog.com or something like this, What will you do then? you have to buy a domain name. Well, there are many domain selling companies you will find in online. But I will recommend you to register domain from GoDaddy.com for domain name registration. So go to this site and look up your domain name or check domain availability. You will see your domain info. Now select your available domain name which you want.

Now go to your Blogger dashboard and click on Settings >> Basic. You will see the following window. Now click as you see in the picture bellow.

Now the following window will appear before you. write your domain name that you selected from the GoDaddy .com  See bellow:-

Now click on save button. Now an error message will appear before you. Don't worry. We will use the following message latter. Keep this tab open. 

• Fully Qualified Domain Name: www
• Record Type: CNAME
• Record Value: ghs.google.com

Save the above information in a notepad. We will use the information in Godaddy. 

1. Creating CNAME record on GoDaddy.com

Login your godaddy.com account. Open All product tab and from Domain sub-tab select Domain Management. It will reach you to the Domain Manager page.

Now Click on your desire domain name(Which you selected from earlier). A new page of domain managing will come. 

In that page, scroll down and click on Launch link under DNS Manager section 

Add a CNAME Record by clicking Quick Add button under CNAME  section, with the detail below…

• Host: www 
• Points to: ghs.google.com 

[Note: If there is already a CNAME Record with www as Host, first delete it then add yours.]

 Create another CNAME Record with the details you saved in Notepad.
 After that, click on Save Zone file > Ok

[Note: You may notice that there is few CNAME Records already created, these records  are generated by Godaddy as default. You can delete theme all if you don’t need, as we’re pointing this domain at Google Hosting server (ghs.google.com)]

2. Blogger Domain Name setting:

Now go back to blogger dashboard again and Click on Save. After successfully saved click on Edit again.

Check(give tick mark) on Redirect example.com to www.example.com and last of all click on  Save again.

After completing all the process successfully, if you see “404 error” while previewing your new added domain. Don’t worry; these changes may take 1-48 hours to take effect.

Important Tips:

• If you are setting sub domain like www.mydomain.com instead of my domain.com and if you want to point your nick domain i.e.mydomain.com to your blog,you also have to add four A records to DNS settings of your domain to these IP address as follows :
  • 216.239.32.21
  • 216.239.34.21
  • 216.239.36.21
  • 216.239.38.21
• If your new domain isn’t taking you to your blog, wait another day or two to make sure all the DNS servers have been updated. If it still isn’t working, contact your register to make sure you entered the DNS settings correctly.
• Your original Blogspot address will automatically forward to your new domain. That way, any existing links or bookmarks to your site will still work.
• You can see those address listed in that same page.
• Your posted images will also continue to display on your blog.

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