How to setup custom domain name on BlogSpot blog with godaddy.com? Mapping your domain name to work with blogger is simple. Use custom domain name to blogger from Godaddy.com to make your BlogSpot subdomain more professional.This complete step by step guide on how to use GoDaddy.com Custom Domain name to Blogger should be followed in the order, else you will have to start it over.
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But, the prerequisite to this tutorial, you must have a blogspot.com (example.blogspot.com) blog and a custom domain name (www.example.com) from GoDaddy.com for mapping your domain name to work with blogger.
If you don’t have a free blog on blogspot.com, create a free blog on BlogSpot using blogger. With blogspot.com blog or website you can start blogging to explicit your expertise. But having the custom domain name (www.example.com blog or website) from domain service providers like GoDaddy or BigRock is always better because there are available at reasonable prices. Mapping your domain name to work with blogger is easy and also it is your own blog and later you can move it anywhere based, on your needs.
Now you are ready with your blogspot.com (example.blogspot.com) blog from blogger and a custom domain name (example.com) purchased from GoDaddy.com. Now you have to use a custom domain for BlogSpot to convert your example.blogspot.com blog to example.com blog.
Before going to the tutorial on How to setup a custom domain for blogger? My advice you to open both your blogger’s BlogSpot blog dashboard and domain name provider GoDaddy.com account because you have to make changes in two account.
Procedure to Setup a custom domain on BlogSpot Blog from GoDaddy
The Procedure to setup custom domain name on blogger with Godaddy.com involves the following step: 1. Log in to Blogger Account,
2. Log in to GoDaddy Account,
3. Add Custom domain name to BlogSpot blog,
4. Add A Records,
5. Add CNAMEs Records,
6. Saving the settings in the blogger/BlogSpot blog.
1.Log into Blogger Account:
Step1. Login your blogger at www.blogger.com and go to your BlogSpot dashboard.
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Step2. Click settings > basic and under publishing section in the Blog Address field, you can find your blogspot.com address. Under that click on the link +Set up a third-party URL for your blog.
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2. Log in GoDaddy Account:
Step3. Log in to GoDaddy.com Account and you will be directed to Account dashboard. Under My Products, Click on “+” sign before Domains.
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Step4. Here you will get a list of domains that you have purchased from GoDaddy.com under Domains > My Domains.
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3. Adding Custom Domain Name to BlogSpot blog
Step5. Now you need to add domain name that you had purchased from Godaddy.com in the Blog Address > Third-Party domain settings field as shown in the figure. After adding the domain name, Click save.
Note: keep in mind that you need to add www as a prefix to the domain name you have purchased. (For example, my domain name is blogtute.com and I am adding www.blogtute.com).
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Step6. When you click save, you will end up with the error saying “We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 32” and two CNAMEs listed below to the Error as shown in the image below.
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Further, if you click save, the error message repeats and documents will not be saved until you configure CNAMEs records and A Records.
But, before setting up CNAMEs and A records for BlogSpot custom domain name, copy and paste these CNAMES in a notepad.
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Step7. Copy these IPs and paste in the Notepad along with CNAMEs.
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These IPs are very useful in the following steps.
Setup CNAMEs and A Records for BlogSpot custom domain name
Step8. Now Go to GoDaddy.com Account you have already opened in the step3, under My Products > Domains > My Domains where you can find your domain name as shown in the figure.
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Step9. Click Manage DNS besides the domain name that you need to set Custom domain to blogger BlogSpot blog.
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Step10. Now you will be directed to DNS Management page where you have to add your CNAMEs and A Records to your Domain Names.
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4. Add A Records
The Advantage in adding A-records for using a custom domain name for your blog is that A-records links your naked domain (example.com) to an actual site (www.example.com ). Skipping this step can result in as error page for the visitors who leave off the “www”.
Step11. Click ADD button at the bottom of the Records.
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Step12. From the popup select A Record and Enter the Host as “@” and point to value should be Google IPs ( first IP i.e., 216.239.32.21 copy from the notepad created in step7) and click Save.
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Step13. In the same way, you have to create four separate A records which point to four different Google IPs. Add A records and enter Host as @ and Point to values as 216.239.34.21, 216.239.36.21, 216.239.38.21 one by one by copying from the notepad, till all the four IPs provided by Google are entered as shown in the image.
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5. Adding CNAMEs
Step14. Click ADD button at the bottom of the records.
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Step15. From the popup select the CNAMEs and Copy CNAMEs for Host and Point to from the notepad you have saved before in Step7 and paste in the Host and Point to the field as shown in the image and click Save.
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Adding the Second CNAME is not necessary, previously it was added, but now when you try to add it, you will get an error message. If you want you can try adding the second CNAME by following Step16 below.
Step16. Now again click ADD, follow the procedure in step15 to add the second CNAME in the Host and Point to fields in the same way and click save. For your reference, go through the image below.
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Step17. When you click save you will get an error message “An unexpected error occurred if this issue continues contact support. We have contacted the GoDaddy customer care support and came to know that adding this CNAME with Host “www” and Point to “ghs.google.com” is not necessary.
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6. Saving the settings in the blogger BlogSpot blog.
Once CNAME and A records setup are completed you need to wait for 5 minutes to 1 hour for your DNS settings to activate. Attempting the final step before your settings are activated can result in error “We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error32”.
Step18. Now go back to your BlogSpot blog address where we entered a custom domain and ended in ERROR 32 while try to save. Now with the settings(CNAMEs and A records) completed click on save.
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Step19. Your setting will be saved successfully, without any error message, once your settings are activated. Google takes care of your BlogSpot readers by directing them to your custom domain. you can view your blog by clicking on the view blog as shown in the figure.
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Step20. Your custom domain blog with www.example.com looks like this in the basic template view.
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Your original BlogSpot.com address will automatically forward to your new domain. All the existing links or bookmarks to your site will still work. Now the process of setting up Godaddy custom domain to blogger/BlogSpot has been completed.
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