Subscribe RSSYou've probably noticed by now that I have my own custom domain now. I recently purchased a .com from Godaddy and it took me some trial and error on how to make it work for my site.
The important thing is to have your blogspot address forward to both www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com. Here's a short guide on how to accomplish that.
1. In Godaddy.com, go to your Domain Manager and click the Total DNS Control link at the bottom of the middle column.
2. Change the @ entry under A (Host) to 64.202.189.170. This is the forwarding IP of GoDaddy.
3. Add a www entry under CNAMES (Aliases) pointing to ghs.google.com. Your page should look something like this:
4. Now go back to Domain Manager and click the link for Forwarding.
5. Check Enable Forwarding. Type in your address (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com) then select 301 for the redirect type.
6. Lastly, login to your Blogger account. Go to Settings > Publishing and type in your custom domain. It should look something like this:
That's it. Wait for a while for changes to reflect (within 24 hours) then tell your friends to update their links to your site. Blogger will take care of people still using your blogspot address to direct them to your new domain.
It's really easy to enjoy your own custom domain with Blogger.
4 comments:
Nice! Why dont you host it on a hosting?
well aside from the difficulty transferring to a new host, Blogger doesn't seem to give me any problem with its service so I don't see the need to look for another host.
how much, all in all, were you able to spend in buying a dot com from godaddy?
where are you from Calvin? please reply in my blog. thanks!
Check out my blogger custom domains godaddy instructions!
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