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How to setup a custom domain with blogger blog ?

How to setup a custom domain with blogger blog ?

In our previous article I have explained  Why you should buy custom domain for blogger Blog ?  And as I promised today I am going to show you how to setup a custom domain for blogger blog. Its too easy to setup a custom domain for blogger blog. There are two steps of setting up the custom domain for blogger blog 1st one is adding CNAME records and 2nd one is adding A-records. CNAME records used to connect your blogger blog to the custom domain so lets add CNAME record in your custom domain. 
 
Creating CNAME records for custom domain

    1,Login into your DNS provider account (i.e. godaddy, Bigrock etc.)
    2,Now click on domain and just lunch DNS manager.
    3,Now find CNAME Records and then add www in host and then add ghs.google.com to points to and you have done.
    4,Now click on save zone files and you have done.

Creating A-records for custom domain

A-records is used to redirect the naked domain (apslogo.com) to the full domain (www.apslogo.com). well now its not necessary to add the A-records to the DNS manager because blogger have already added one awesome feature using that you can redirect the naked domain to full domain, Lets enable this feature.

    1,Login into your blogger account
    2,Go to setting
    3,Now click on add a custom domain
    4,Now select switch to advanced settings
    5,Now add your custom domain and click on save
    6,Click on Edit (check the bellow snapshot) 

     7,Now select Redirect yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com. 

    8,Now click on save and you have done.

Now if you want to add the A-records to your DNS manager then simply find the A-records and then add the four ip addresses given bellow.

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
And you have finally done, your DNS might take 1 or 2 hour to redirect your blogger blog.
Question ?

If you have any question about the setting up the custom domain for blogger blog then feel free to ask  make a comment
Why you should buy custom domain for blogger Blog ?

Why you should buy custom domain for blogger Blog ?

All the bloggers starts blogging using the free subdomain provided by the bloggers but as time goes many people found that you have a blog and you are running that blog under the blogger subdomain. And when you are receiving handsome traffic and then you found that you don’t have sponsors for your blog and the blogger ranks are also increases day by day. And still there are many confusion in blogger like what if they lost their Alexa rank, page rank in custom domain ? well the solution of that kind of questions is also given bellow.


 Your blog posts will get more shares and bookmarks

When you have your own custom domain name instead of the blogger’s sub domain then people will think that you are serious about your blog and the articles of your blog is unique and it will make good impression on the visitors and they will be your royal reader. And your reader will also share some of the good articles with their friends and they can also bookmark your blogger articles.

Fans and subscriptions will increases with the custom domain

Mostly people are not trusting the subdomains of the blogger’s blog because its free and anyone can make it so they can guess that you cant publish good content on your blog because you are using the subdomain of the blogger and when you have custom domain for your blogger blog then your Facebook and twitter follower will increase.

It Costs Just $10 To Buy a domain name !!

You can buy the custom domain in just $10/year and its not big deal !! there are many domain name provider like Godaddy and BlogRock etc. there are many more. And we have bought our blogger domain name from the Godaddy and its easy to redirect your blogger subdomain to the custom domain in my next article I will publish how to set a custom domain for the blogger blog.


Will you lose your traffic and web ranks ?

Its main confusion of all the blogger that what if they lost their blogger traffic and web ranks ? well we are just redirecting the blogger subdomain to the custom domain and all the web ranking system are based on the content and the traffic you get and when the web ranking gets updated and your blog will get back the web ranks.

Some  Publisher network don’t accept the subdomains

Publisher network like buysellads ads do not accept the subdomains it means that you are losing 60% of the revenue from your blog !!!

What you are thinking  ??

If you have any question about buying the custom domain for the blogger blog then feel free to ask.
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