Almost every blogger starts their blogging carrier in Blogger.com or WordPress.com, as they get a sub-domain for free and they don’t need to invest anything to setup a blog. Running the blogger blog on a Custom domain has lot of benefits over the free blogger sub-domain. The top-level custom domain names increases the SEO of your site. For illustration, I’m moving the free blogger sub-domain getcooltricks247.blogspot.com to a custom sub-domain blog.getcooltricks.com. The steps are very simple. Follow the steps very carefully. You may like to read our Tutorials on Adding Custom CSS in Blogger, Adding Widgets to blogger, Adding Custom Robots.txt.
Note
For doing this you need access to your Domain name control panel. You need to create some DNS records to link it with Blogger blog. Note that, editing the DNS zone file may differ according to the Domain Registrars and the hosting Providers. DNS propagation may take up-to 48 hours for the changes to take effect. Kindly be patient till that time. In my experience, these changes takes effect within 10 to 30 minutes. Avoid mistakes when entering the DNS records, as it may make your site offline until you correct it. Here I am gonna link one of my sub-domain to a blogger blog. Follow the steps given below.
Running Blogger Blog in Custom URL
Login to your blogger blog with your Google account. Goto Basic > Publishing in the Settings as shown below. Now Click on the Setup a third party URL for your Blog.
Go-to Basic Settings
Type in your Custom Domain name in the space provided. In my case it is a sub-domain blog.getcooltricks.com and Click save. Since you have not created any DNS records, It will show an error like this.
Enter your Custom domain name
Now, it is the time to create the CNAME records and A records. Creating the CNAME and A records varies with Domain Name Registrars. Check this Google help to Create the CNAME Records.
Creating DNS Records
Creating DNS Records
You can use any one method given below for creating the records. Wait some time after creating records, as DNS propagation takes 10 minutes to 48 hours. Read the Note at the beginning of the post.
Method 1
Create the two CNAMEs, that your Blog shows when you click Save button. Create those two records which looks like. Kindly note that this is not the same for all the blogs. This is just an example. www may change to something like blog if it is a sub-domain like blog.getcooltricks.com.
Type
Host
Points to
TTL
CNAME
2oh3uhe6dyhb
gv-xxxx.googlehosted.com
3600
CNAME
www
ghs.google.com
3600
Method 2
Create 4 A records and one CNAME record as given below.
Type
Host
Points to
TTL
A
@
216.239.32.21
3600
A
@
216.239.34.21
3600
A
@
216.239.36.21
3600
A
@
216.239.38.21
3600
CNAME
www
ghs.google.com
3600
After completing this step, wait for sometimes. Now your blog’s free sub-domain will redirect to your custom domain. In my case getcooltricks247.blogspot.com should redirect to blog.getcooltricks.com
Redirect settings are set-up
The blog now runs on a Custom Domain. Check the Image below. My Blogger blog is now running on a Sub-domain blog.getcooltricks.com.
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