Blogging is an idea to express your passion whether drawing, poem, reviewing, or sharing ideas. In this social media age, people do this by blasting on social sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ if you wanna write about a step and tutorial, feel the need to update the post then go for a blog where social sites are to promote posts and share the news rather than detailed story. Bloggers promote, share, and express in detail on their blogs.
Get a free blog on Blogger
Blogger by Google is a free blogging platform that was the first blog provider for many bloggers. Initially many have chosen it for the community and others to express themselves. Later on, many different platforms were launched and the social influencers moved to better places.
Now blogging has become a source of passive income. So, if you are the one who wanna try blogging with a blogger, with your own domain name, good to go with this post.
BlogSpot domain
For bloggers, all blogging platforms provide a free address we know its subdomain, like YourChoosenName.blogspot.com with your own favorite name if it’s available. BlogSpot is free and you can set your own TLD(Top Level Domain) for branding, Blogspot has the option to set up or even change the subdomain.
BlogSpot custom domain
Brand your content with your own domain with a free weblog publisher. To do so you must have registered one domain name before setting up you will not get it from the blogger dashboard. If you do not have it now you can get it easily from any domain name registrar or hosting company. Domain names can be purchased from $10-$15 for a year HostGator, BigRock, and find hosting promo codes.
Step 1. Set CNAME for BlogSpot custom domain name
Before going to BlogSpot’s custom domain name setting you have to set CNAME on your domain registrar’s website. Go to Domain Name System(DNS) settings and enter CNAMEs provided by BlogSpot (you will find them on the BlogSpot settings page).
If you are not able to find DNS settings, ask your registrar if you need to set CNAMEs for BlogSpot and can not find settings. They will guide you or add for you just provide these two CNAMEs.
| www | ghs.google.com |
| i7crojuz7qvs | gv-uii7co5en7qlr7.dv.googlehosted.com |
See it below images to add new CNAMEs
Step 2. Open BlogSpot – setting up BlogSpot’s custom domain
Now you have to log in and hit the button to set BlogSpot’s custom domain. In your BlogSpot dashboard, you see all the blogs you have and choose the one for which you want to set the domain.
See the image below, hit the down arrow it will open the option, and click settings.
Now you see the settings page where you can change the necessary settings you want or require. Here you need only one set to change which is the Blog Address which is under the Publishing title. You can change the blog address you are using currently by clicking on to Edit link. In our case, you have to click + Setup a 3rd party URL for your blog link which is just below the text bar.
Step 3. Add your domain name
This is the final step, add your domain name including www, and hit the save button. It requires generally 24 hrs minimum to point the domain to the blog. You will see it in action within a few hours I believe or wait for 24hrs.
If you put a domain name without www the following message appears:
“Blogs may not be hosted at naked domains (ex: yourdomain.com). Please add a top-level domain (www.yourdomain.com) or subdomain (blog.yourdomain.com).”
All done
Now it’s all done. you can anytime use the domain name (as we worked above) and it will open the BlogSpot weblog. So, your visitors have a new site address to open the same blog which was long.