How to setup a custom Domain and Sub-domain with your Blogger Blog

Today , We gonna to share a simple steps to setup Domain and Sub-domain with your Blogger Blog.

It'll really helpfull to create demo and blog website. Your blog looks more professional and user easily navigate to more topics.

Setup Domain and Sub Domain

How to setup a custom Domain and Sub-domain with your Blogger Blog

Step-1. Adding the custom domain to your blogger blog

Go to your BlogSpot blog’s basic settings page, Dashboard > Settings > Basic

1. Click on Add a custom domain > Switch to advanced settings

3. Enter your domain (e.g.  www.example.com) in the box under Advanced settings 

4. Click on Save

Don’t worry about the massage “We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 5”  - We gonna fix out it.

5. Look just below to the error massage; you will see some necessary code provided by Google. Copy and Save the marked code snippets as shown in the screenshot below. It will be required on the next.

Note: This code provided by Google is to verify your Domain Authority. You have to create two CNAME record on your domain’s DNS settings with these code. One cName code is for hosting and the long one is for verifying authority.

Step-2: Create CNAME Record on godaddy.com for Custom Domain

1. Log in to your Godaddy account.

2. Open All product tab and from Domain sub-tab select Domain Management. It will reach you to the Domain Manager page.

3. Click on your desire domain name. A new page of domain managing will come.

4. Click on the "DNS Zone File" tab.

5. Click on the Edit button.

6. We need to delete some of the existing records that GoDaddy adds by default. Select all the "A" records with "@" as host as well as the CNAME record "www" (if the URL you want to use starts with www) and press the Delete button.

7. Press the "Save Zone File" button.

8. Press Ok to confirm.

9. Press Ok to confirm again. :)

10. Now it's time to add A(Host) record. Go to A(Host) field and add some IP address used by Blogger in the manner i have added in my domain DNS zone file and keep default A record that is available by default in your zone file. 

11. Click Quick Add button and add @ in Host filed and IP address in Points to Filed and keep TTL 1 Hour.

Add 4 A record as follows.

216.239.32.21

216.239.34.21

216.239.36.21

216.239.38.21 

12. Now Go to CNAME(Alias) field and add codes generated by Blogger in first step. See my zone file and the record in the way in my zone file.

After all click on Save DNS Zone button to save your settings.

 13. Go back to the Blogger settings window we kept open in Step 1 and click "Save" again.

14. If like me the GoDaddy DNS server processed the changes really quickly, it should all work fine and the settings should be accepted. You should be back to the main settings with your new custom domain accepted as the blog Address. So click on "Edit".

If Step 14 fails, be patient and retry later. It can take up to 48h for DNS settings to propagate. 

15. Enable the "Redirect ..." checkbox and press Save. This is to allow "naked domain" redirect i.e. when users type your domain name without the www at the beginning.

16. Finally click the "View blog" button at the top of Blogger UI, it should all work fine and your blog should now be enabled with a custom domain.

 Step-3. Adding the custom sub-domain to your blogger blog

My Primary Domain is www.digitalhubinc.com and Now i can add demo.digitalhubinc.com, blog.digitalhubinc.com.. like that

Here is The Tutorial! (How i Linked my demo Subdomain to My Blogger Test Blog with Screen Shots for Your Easy Convenience )

1. login To www.Godaddy.com, Goto Domain manager [All steps like previous one,,,]

Now i am Going to Create a Subdomain demo.digitalhubinc.com (change With you own blog sub-domain Name)

2.First you have to add a CNAME for your Subdomain, For that  Goto Total DNS click  Total DNS Control

3.In That You have to Add 2 New entries Under CNAME for that goto Add New Record Under CNAME

You Will Be Asked For Alias Name and point to Host name

first Create WWW in Alias Name and Point it to GHS.GOOGLE.COM

Second Create WWW.Subname and Point it to GHS.GOOGLE.COM

TTL : 1 Hour

Now You Have Successfully Created CNAME For Your SubDomain.

4. Now You Have To Create a SubDomain And Forward in to Blogspot. follow below screenshots steps:

a. Go to Settings>>Basics>>Publishing>>Blog Address

b. Click on Setup a thrid-party URL for your blog link

c. Fill the Sub-domain link with www Like this : www.demo.digitalhubinc.com

d. save

e. after saving tick on radio button

    [Redirect demo.digitalhubinc.com to www.demo.digitalhubinc.com ]

f. Save All

 Finally click the "View blog" button at the top of Blogger UI, it should all work fine and your blog should now be enabled with a custom domain.

All Work Done.