One of my readers reached out to me yesterday asking how he can use his own custom domain on blogger instead of the blogspot subdomain. Since I know that others might be having this very problem, I thought it would be better to answer him here. In this post, I shall walk you through the steps you take to set up a custom domain on blogger.
- On your blogger dashboard, click on 'Settings'
- Under 'Basic' Settings, click on '+ Setup a Third Party URL for your blog'
- Enter your custom domain in the dialogue box ensuring that you include the www. part
- Click on save and you will get an error message with 2 CNAMEs that will allow you to verify your domain ownership
- Log into your Domain Registrar's website and locate the Domain Name Settings otherwise known as DNS
- Add the 2 CNAME Records provided to you in step 4 above. The first one is the same for everyone. Under Name, Label or Host, add 'www' and under Destination, Target or Points To, add 'ghs.google.com'
- Now add the second CNAME as shown below
- You then have to add 4 'A Records' pointing to these IP addresses; 216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21. Enter @ as the Name Label or Host and the IP addresses above as the Destination, Target or Points to. Save and Repeat for all four as shown below. - Now go back to your blogger dashboard and click on save. You should be able to see a screen like shown below if you followed all the steps correctly.
- The final step involves clicking on the 'Edit' next to your domain and selecting 'Redirect' to ensure that your bare URL redirects to www.yourdomain.
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