Mapping Your Domain to Work with a Blogger Blog
You can establish a more professional identity for your Blogger® blog by configuring it to point to one of the domains you registered through us. Instead of entering your Blogger URL to view your latest blog entry, visitors enter your domain URL. For example, by mapping your coolexample.blogspot.com blog to your www.coolexample.com domain, visitors focus solely on your domain.
To point your Blogger blog to your domain, you set up domain mapping, which configures your blog settings and domain. You update your settings in your Blogger account and Domain Manager, as follows:
- Park the domain you want to use with your Blogger account. Your domain must be parked with our parking nameservers before you can configure the CNAME record to point to the Blogger account you want to use.
- Edit the "www" CNAME record for the domain you want to use with your Blogger account. This tells the Web browser to open your Blogger blog when visitors enter your domain URL in the browser address bar.
- Forward your domain to use "www". This ensures your Blogger blog displays for visitors who go to your domain with or without the "www" prefix. For example, it displays for visitors who entered both www.coolexample.com and coolexample.com.
- Configure your Blogger account to use your domain.
To Park Your Domain
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
- Use the checkbox to select the domain you want to use with your Blogger account, and then click Nameservers.
- Select Parked nameservers.
- Click OK.
- Click OK again.
To Edit Your CNAME Record
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
- Click the domain you want to use for your Blogger blog.
- In the Total DNS Control section, click the Total DNS Control and MX Records hyperlink.
- In the CNAMES section, click the Edit button for the "www" record.
- Click OK to confirm you want to edit the record.
- In the Points To Host Name field, type ghs.google.com.
- Click OK.
To Forward Your Domain
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
- Use the checkbox to select the domain you want to forward to your Blogger blog, and then click Forward.
- Select Enable forwarding.
- In the Forward to field, enter the complete URL, without the "www", to which you want to forward your domain. For example, http://coolexample.com.
- In the Redirect type area, select one of the following:
- 301 Moved Permanently
- Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward to field using a "301 Moved Permanently" HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has permanently moved.
- 302 Found (Temporary Redirect)
- Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward to field using a "302 Found" HTTP response. The HTTP 302 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has temporarily moved.
- Click OK.
To Configure Your Blogger Account
- Log in to your Blogger account.
- Go to the Settings tab.
- Click Publishing.
- Click the Custom Domain hyperlink.
- In the Buy a domain for your blog section, click the Switch to advanced settings hyperlink.
- In the Your Domain field, enter your domain name. For example, enter www.coolexample.com.
- To specify another location in which to look for files, in the Use a missing files host? section, select Yes and enter the path. If not, specify No.
- In the Word Verification field, enter the characters as they display in the image above the field.
- Click Save Settings.
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