Monday, October 13, 2008

Blogger Custom Domain, Unlimited Hosting And Bandwidth For Free

Nowadays almost every internet user has a blog of his/her own. But usually people prefer free blogs from the two most blogging platforms - Blogger or Wordpress.
Blogs from Blogger are generally preferred more because they are directly related to Google (actually Blogger is owned by Google) and so are given more priority during a Google search. Moreover the facilities given by Blogger are much more as compared to WordPress.

But the problem with these blogs is the name/url of the blog, being very long (***.blogspot.com) it is usually difficult to remember or pass on the address to your friends. So this tutorial will guide you to get a professional domain name (for just $6.99 per year) for your existing Blogger blog.

BloggerStop.net is also a custom domain registered at 1and1.com. So I would recommend you to purchase a domain from 1and1, which is a very trusted website and listed on Bloggers' suggested registrars too [List Here]

Once you purchase a domain from 1and1, in about 2 days it will be registered.
STEP #1
When your domain registration is completed, go to Administration section -> "Manage Domains" and create a new sub-domain (like www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com or blog.YOUR_DOMAIN.com).
Then select this sub-domain (click on the tick-box against this sub-domain), then click on the drop-down menu item DNS -> Edit DNS Settings.


STEP #2
Now in this new page, click on the Radio button "CNAME", then in front of Alias, paste this:
ghs.google.com


STEP #3
Once this has been done, go to Blogger.com and for the appropriate blog click on the link Settings, then go to the section Publishing.
In this page, click on the link Custom Domain.


STEP #4
And finally click on the link Already own a domain? Switch to advanced settings


STEP #5
Now enter the url of the sub-domain whose DNS settings has been edited by you at 1and1. Enter the Captcha code (Word Verification), and click on Save Settings, and then mark the tick-box too: "Redirect www.***.com to ***.com"



You can read more blogger tricks and tips HERE

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