How to set up a custom domain in blogger easily?

At the beginning of our blogging journey, we take every step through a lot of thinking processes. We try to make our site look as genuine as possible and blogspot free domain doesn’t look any good than spam. The first way to make your blogger site to look genuine is to give your site a professional name that could be done by buying a custom domain.

In this article, I am going to tell you how you can set up a custom domain in blogger.

You can buy a custom domain from any domain provider that includes GoDaddy, Hostinger and Google itself.

If you want to buy domain form Google, then follow the steps below:

How to buy a domain from Google

1. Sign in to blogger
2. Choose your blog from the menu in the left
3. Go to settings from the left menu
4. Scroll down to Publishing and under Publishing, click on custom domain
5. Click Buy domain
6. In the search bar, search for the domain of your choice
7. Then follow the instructions on the screen to complete the process

How to buy a domain from Hostinger

1. Go to Hostinger
2. Sign up with Google, Facebook or Email
3. After signing up, click on domains in the menu on the top
4. Now, under domains, click on domain checker
5. Search your domain
6. Click on Add to cart button under the domain, and again click on continue to cart button
7. Choose your payment method
8. Proceed and follow the on-screen instructions (there is different process for each payment method)
9. You will be redirected to the Hostinger hpanel

Set up a domain in Hostinger

1. On the hostinger hpanel, click on setup under your domain
2. Enter your Primary details and click on Next step
3. Enter your Contact details and click on Next step
4. Verify your domain from the verification sent to your contact email from Hostinger

Redirect Blogspot domain to custom domain

Follow the steps below to Set up a custom domain in blogger site with Google domain and non-google domain.

Set up a Google domain in blogger

Connecting a Google Domain to blogger site is very simple task, as most of the work is done by Google itself by default

1. Sign in to blogger
2. Go to setting from the menu on the left
3. Under Publishing, click on the Custom domain
4. Add the domain for your blogger site
5. Hit Save
6. It will take up to an hour to redirect Blogspot to custom domain

Set up a custom domain in blogger (Non-Google domain)

Different domain provider has different process of buying a domain. Lets set up a non-Google domain in blogger:

1. Sing in to blogger
2. Go to settings from the menu in the left
3. Under Publishing, click on Custom domain

4. Type the domain you purchased from your domain provider

5. Upon saving, you will be shown an error with two CNAME, you need to add those two CNAME to your DNS zone.

6. Blog CNAME: For the name, enter the name as subdomain like “www”, “blog”, en, in, etc. It will be shown in your primary domain as www.example.com, blog.example.com, en.example.com and in.example.com respectively. Enter the destination as “ghs.google.com”.

7. Security CNAME: It is not specified, it is different for everyone because as the name suggests “Security CNAME”.

Redirecting a naked domain to www

If you want all the searched domains to redirect to your primary domain with subdomain like redirecting example.com and http://example.com to http://www.example.com then you have to add four A records in your DNS record.

1. Go to your domain provider’s setting
2. Open the DNS settings in your domain
3. Add the following A records in the DNS settings

• 216.239.32.21
• 216.239.34.21
• 216.239.36.21
• 216.239.38.21

Enter A in the “Type or Label” field and the IP address in the “Target, Destination, Value or Points to” field and @ in the “Name” field. This four A records help properly set up a custom domain in blogger and ensures that the naked domain is redirected to the same subdomain, usually www.

4. Now sign in to blogger
5. Then, go to settings from the menu in the left
6. Under Publishing, enable redirect domain

Setting up the non-Google domain provider’s settings

1. Go to your domain provider settings to activate custom domain in blogger
2. Choose the domain you are processing in the blogger
3. Find the DNS (Domain Name System) in the control panel of your account
4. In the Name, Label, or Host field, put the subdomain from like “www” or “blog” and, under “Target, Destination, Points to, or Value” enter “ghs.google.com”

5. Enter the Security CNAME that are specific to every Google account and the blog

6. Your custom domain in blogger will be activated within an hour after setting up your DNS record

Enable SSL in Blogger

To enable SSL in blogger or redirect custom domain in blogger from HTTP to HTTPS, follow the steps below:

1. Sign in to blogger
2. Then, go to settings from the menu in the left
3. Now, under HTTPS, enable the HTTPS Availability
4. If not enabled then enable HTTPS redirect

5. Wait for 15 minutes to 60 minutes
6. Refresh the page after 15 minutes or 60 minutes
7. If successfully redirected, it will show Status: Ok/Available

This is the most perfect way to set up a custom domain in blogger to make your site look professional.

Happy Blogging😊.