How to redirect blogspot blog from sub domain to custom domain

Posted by Anonymous on 2/03/2012

Initially every blogger starts his blogging career on free blogger platform by using blogspot's sub domain service. Even I also started my blogging career on free blogger platform. When I started blogging in early days I aimed of posting at least 1 post in a day. However I managed of posting around 5 posts in a week. The same way I managed to post my first 20 posts in a month. I was getting quite good traffic to my blog around 500 visitors a day. I thought to apply for Adsense so that I can earn some money with that traffic around 1$ to 2$ a day. Buying your own custom domain doesn't hurt much financially.

A custom domain costs around 2$ to maximum of 5$ a year. You can also use coupons before buying a domain name which helps you in saving some dollars ($). Before buying a domain name or hosting space you can Google for coupon codes at that time because those coupon codes will work for only short time span. Buying a custom domain does not hurt you financially much when you are having traffic of around 500+ visitors a day because you can earn that 10$ dollars within 4 to 5 days from Adsense. Always choose .com as your first option and if you didn't get .com of your desired name then go for .org or .net extensions. I don't like buying a hosting for my blog by spending some dollars when you are getting it in blogger for free. Blogger is owned by Google so need not to worry always up-time servers. Even your blog will be given a higher position in search results. Because of new redirection update in blogger some blogs are loosing traffic. So, to overcome this problem better to redirect your blog to a custom domain instead of using blogspot sub domain.
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Steps to redirect your blogspot blog from sub domain to custom domain:

1. I am having International Debit card from which I tried to buy a domain for my blog. But unfortunately I couldn't buy using that card on Godaddy and Netfirms. As I contacted them through their live chat support I got a reply from them saying that 'my bank denied transaction'.

2. So, I thought to register my domain on BigRock.in as it is a Indian register which supports all types of Credit cards, Debit cards and bank balance transfer. And finally I registered my domain on bigrock.in.

3. So, now to redirect your blog sub domain to top level domain log in to your account where you registered the domain. Now search for the control panel in that registered website.

3. There you will find DNS settings. Enter into it to change your DNS settings. If you find any IP address in the 'A-records' section just delete them because the bots have already enabled the domain forwarding facility in your account.

4. Now enter the below IP's in the 'A-records' section separately.

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21

5. Now search for 'CNAME' option. And now add a new CNAME record as below.
Name: www
Host Name: ghs.google.com

6. Save it and Log out of your account.

Redirect your blogspot Sub domain to Top level Domain:

1. Wait for 4 to 5 hours till your register update your DNS globally.

2. After 4 to 5 hours its time to redirect your blogger sub domain to top level domain.

3. Log in to your blogger account go to 'Settings' tab and now click on 'Publishing' tab.

4. Click on custom domain in 'Switch to: • Custom Domain (Point your own registered domain name to your blog)'.

5. Now click on 'Switch to advanced settings'.

6. Enter your domain name in 'Your Domain'. For example enter like this 'www.crazyinternet.org'.

7. Now mark as 'No' in 'Use a missing file host'.

8. Enter captcha and 'Save Settings'. Everything is done. Within 1 or 2 hours now your blog sub domain address like 'yourblog.blogspot.com' redirects to 'www.example.com'.

If you feel any difficulty in redirecting from sub domain to top level domain contact me through email or leave a comment below.