Base on the comments and questions I have been receiving from some of my readers. I got to find out that a lot of new bloggers are still finding it difficult to connect domain name registered with Namecheap to blogger site.
So I’ve
decided to throw out this piece of article to guide my audience in achieving
linking their already registered domain name to BlogSpot site. This can be any
domain extension of your choice.
Anyways, I
assume you’ve already gotten your preferred domain name from Namecheap. You can
also connect domain name from other registrars to your blogger site by
carefully following the steps I am about showing here.
First thing first, login to your blogger admin and navigate to the very blog you want to link your domain with.
Now I so
much believe that you have landed in your blogger Admin area, now, from the
menu list at your left hand side, click the settings as displayed in the image
below.
Next you
will be taking to the page where you can setup most of the important settings
about your blog site.
Scroll down
a bit and under publishing, click custom domain and an input field will pop up
asking you to provide the custom domain you want to connect with your site.
Note: ensure
you add “WWW” before your domain. After you’re done typing in your domain name,
click “SAVE” and blogger will send you an error message, containing you’re the
domain destinations that you need to enter into the provided fields in your
Namecheap dashboard.
Now that
you’ve gotten your domain destination values from BlogSpot, let’s move over to
Namecheap. Login your Namecheap account and navigate to the domain you want to
use and click “MANAGE” at the right hand side on your screen.
From the
next page display, click the “ADVANCE DNS” and you get to see the input fields
where you can enter those destinations from the error blogger message. Don’t
panic, it is very easy and I am here to walk you through it without any stress.
First go
back to your BlogSpot Admin and copy the first name “www” and destination “ghs.google.com”.
Note: these two are always the same for every blogger.
After you’ve
gotten them, move to your Namecheap dashboard and paste them accordingly as it
appear in the image below. Set type to “CNAME Record”, set host to “www” and
set value to “ghs.google.com”.
TYPE->
CNAME Record
HOST->
www
VALUE->
ghs.googles.com
Next is to
go back to the BlogSpot dashboard to retrieve the second name and destination
values as we did for the first two initially.
Note: these
are the two values each blogger gets individually. What blogger "A" get is
different from what blogger "B" get. So keep this in mind and don’t use mine.
Same thing
as we did for set type to “CNAME Record”, set host to “6inharlqgx2k” the second name value, set value to ”gv-tl26q3an55h6qw.dv.googlehosted.com” the second destination.
TYPE->
CNAME Record
HOST-> 6inharlqgx2k
VALUE-> gv-tl26q3an55h6qw.dv.googlehosted.com
We are
almost there. We still have one more step to take before we can save every setting
so far.
Now we have
to set auto redirect. Still on the blogger dashboard where you’ve typed in your
domain, click the “support page link” right after the domain destination
values.
Next, Google
will take you to a page where you can copy the redirect values and enter in
your Namecheap input fields, like as we did with the destination values.
This time
around, you need to set the type option to “A Record” and the host option to “@”
and lastly the value option, you paste the value you copied from Google support
page. You have to repeat this step for all the four values.
TYPE-> A Record
HOST-> @
VALUE-> 216.239.38.21
.png "blogger redirect value")
After you’re
done doing that, go back to your BlogSpot Admin and click the save button.
Now you’ve
successfully connected your domain name to your blogger site. Make sure you
also turn on the auto redirect from your blogger end.
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