How to setup a custom domain/ address in Blogger(blogspot)?

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If you are serious about blogging, then you have to own your domain. If your blog address have a prefix like, your-name.blogspot.com, my-blog.wordpress.com or freewebs.com/yourpage then it wont look professional. You have to tell a long address to your friends so that they won’t remember it.

The reality is that most of the people online don’t take blogs with a subdomain seriously. Owning your domain makes the address shorter and brandable. You could replace blogs or service under that address and you could sell the domain in the future.

I started blogging under a subdomain to try out blogging, when I got serious about it, I transformed it into a real Dot Com domain. If you are using a free service like blogger, making publicity of your sub domain will only increase the authority of them because you don’t own that domain. If any how blogger deletes your blog, all of the readers will be not able to find your blog. So that’s a huge risk.

So it is better to move your blogger blog to your own domain as soon as you can. Blogger gives this chance and you don’t have to buy hostine, blogger will host your blog forever.

Before you go to the process, you have to own the domain like, blogkori.com. A domain is as low as $10 (700Tk) and there are many providers online who are giving this service in even low prices. In Bangladesh, you could purchase the domain from your local web hosting provider. You only have to buy the domain, not any hosting.

CNAME configuration: *This could be different among service providers
Once you bought the domain, go to your domain control panel and access DNS settings. Create a new CNAME record with ‘www’ and set ghs.google.com. as the IP address/URL. Do the same step without ‘www’

Go to blogger dashboard and go to settings of your blog. Click publishing and click on custom domain. Click advance settings. Now add your domain like I did, blogkori.com and click save settings. You can check to redirect www.blogkori.com to blogkori.com. Now if you type your old address in the browser, you will redirect to the new address so no need to panic. Check the address if it works or not, when everything is ok, now its time to tell everyone about it.

Changes made may not apply instantly, local servers usualy takes 24 to 48 hours to update with new informations.