(How to use my domain with my Blogger account?)
In order to
set your domain to your Blogger account, you need to take several simple
steps:
- Set your domain within your
Blogger account.
Once you login to your Blogger account you need to click on Settings tab and choose Basic. - Then you will need to click on Add a custom domain button under Blog Address field in Publishing section:
- Once this is done, you will see a field to put your domain name in. Input the domain name and click Save button
- Once the page refreshes, you will see two CNAME records which should be created in your domain’s Zone File
- Now you may create necessary records for your domain in your Namecheap account
Note: blogs are not to be placed on bare domains (like yourdomain.tld), so you need to input a subdomain, for example, www.yourdomain.com or blog.yourdomain.com
- Click on the domain itself (please make sure
to click on the domain, not just check box next to it);
- Click All
Host Records in the left-hand menu. (Note! If you do not have All Host Records option for your domain, this means your domain is
pointed to third party nameservers and you need to contact your hosting
provider to create these settings).
- Here you create two records for your domain.
For your @ field you put http://www.yourdomainname.tld(make sure you put your
domain name and do not forget about the http://www. part) and choose URL Redirect as a record type from the
drop-down menu.
- In the www field you put ghs.google.com and
choose CNAME as a record type from
the drop-down menu.
- Enter the value listed under Name, Label, or Host field in "Host Name" field, verification string (xxxxxxxxxxxxx.domainverify.googlehosted.com.) listed under Destination, Target, or Points To field in "IP Address/URL" field and select CNAME from the "Record type" drop-down menu under "Subdomains Settings"
- Then please click Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.
You may see an example of settings below:
And that's it! It may take up to a couple of hours for Blogger to verify settings created for your domain.
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