Sure Kelly Bee! I've got a lot going today, so I'll post a few steps at a time. (By the way, I tried to check out your blog, but your profile isn't enabled....)
1. You are going to need to secure your desired domain. Mr. Sasha reserved http://www.sashasays.com/ for me a few years ago because he swore someday that I could somehow use as it as place to post reviews of all my product/makeup/food finds. Who knew this blog would develop and he'd be right!
There are lots of hosting sites, but we use http://www.1and1.com/ and Mr. Sasha says it's $6.99 a year to buy a domain name. Yahoo is $9.95 and GoDaddy is $9.99- so if you are bargain shopper like me, go for 1and1.
2. The next step is to create a CNAME record for it to point to ghs.google.com.
Here is the bloger help document with specific instructions for each hosting site on how to do this. I followed these instructions for 1and1 and GoDaddy with no problems.
3. Next, you need to update your blogger settings to reflect the change.
You'll do this on the Settings Publishing tab for your blog in Blogger. Click the link at the top that says "Switch to Custom Domain" towards the top. Fill in the domain you registered, and then save your settings.
It may take a bit for all the DNS servers to update. If it doesn't work at first, try again later.
Your original Blog*Spot address will automatically forward to your new domain. That way, any existing links or bookmarks to your site will still work.
And of course, I'm glad to help anyone that is having trouble. Provided, of course, that you name me as the "Hero of the Year" for your blog.
6 comments:
I had such an issue with it until I realized that wow, I had missed one TINY thing - once I fixed it (switching to classic template), worked like a dream!
Traci Anne, I worked on Angry Julie's blog yesterday, which has a non-classic template, and I went ahead and tried first without switching to a classic template, and it worked fine. So maybe they changed something.... But I don't think you have to switch to a classic template for it to work OK.
Lordy - I started reading that and then felt my eyes glaze over. I don't do techno geek well!!!
Sasha,
Thanks soo much! I was looking on go daddy and found a name I might like.
My blogs are:
bee-family.blogspot.com and
chickenbusdiaries.blogspot.com
Kelly Bee
Sasha, that Mr. Sasha was sweet to secure your domain naimez. I might have to do that.. but the DL would never think to do it for me.
Thanks for the guide!
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