Get Your Own Custom .COM Domain for Your Blog
Why Choose a Custom Domain?
- It's Permanent. You get to keep this domain name forever. Services such as Blogger can deactivate your blog at any given time without notice.
- Promote your own brand. If your site is a subdomain (such as .blogspot.com) you're promoting Google Blogger. Get your own domain and you'll be promoting your own unique brand. It gives you credibility and more people will trust you and what you have to offer.
- More Traffic. Search engines prefer custom web domains over subdomains.
- Name Recognition. It's much easier to remember and locate a domain name such as NinjaMan.com than NinjaMan.blogspot.com.
- Custom Email. You can get your own custom email (eg: John@YourBlog.com). It looks very professional.
- Selling Rights. Subdomain blogs, such as Blogspot, do not allow you to sell your blog. With your own custom domain you have the right to sell your website if you choose to do so one day.
- It's Cheap. Give up one Starbucks drink a month and you can afford your own (.com, .net, .org, etc.) domain! It's only $3.96 a month with HostGator.
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If you are searching for a web hosting company that has reliable and fast servers, try HostGator. My friend James and I use them to host several sites, and I have been a customer for over one year without any issues. Our high traffic site TheBlogTemplates.com has been running very smoothly since September of 2009 and HostGator can handle it well.Option 1 : Setup Your Custom Domain with Blogger
- Assuming you have your own hosting plan with Hostgator or another web host, contact your web hosting company about registering a domain. Tell them that you want to register a new domain name such as YourDomain.com. Once the domain is registered ask them to create a CNAME record for your domain with the DNS directing to: ghs.google.com. Please note that it may take a few hours to a day for your DNS settings to update correctly.
- Now we need to update your Blogger Settings at Blogger.com. Go to Settings and then click on the Publishing tab.
- If you are publishing on Blogspot, you will see a link near the top offering to switch you to a custom domain. Go ahead and click on "custom domain".
- Now click "Switch to Advanced Settings".
- Fill in the name of your domain. I typed in YourDomain.com as an example. Once you've done this enter the word verification at the bottom of the page and click "Save Settings".
- That's it! Your files should now be hosted at your new domain if your DNS settings have been updated yet.
- If you are publishing on Blogspot, you will see a link near the top offering to switch you to a custom domain. Go ahead and click on "custom domain".
Option 2 : Set up Your Custom Domain by Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
Wordpress is a free professional blogging platform which most people prefer over Blogger. Assuming once again that you have a web hosting account with one such as Hostgator, go to your cPanel.- Watch this tutorial on how to Install WordPress from Fantastico.
- Then in your WordPress Admin area (domain.com/wp-admin), go to Manage → Import → Blogger and follow the directions to complete the import.
- Your blog posts should now be imported to Wordpress and should show up on your website!
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«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 461 Newer› Newest»Hello, how do i can have domain name pointing to my tumblr (tumblr.abcd123.com)
, blogspot (old.abcd123.com) and wordpress Self hosted blog (www.abcd123.com).
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Hey Netcharts,
If you are the owner of www.abcd123.com then you need to talk to eNom web hosting. Ask them to create a CNAME record for both blogspot domains with the DNS directing to: ghs.google.com
Here are instructions for moving your wordpress blog to www.abcd123.com
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Hope this helps!
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Hello there, John!
Very nice post. Got precisely what I was looking for. I do have a few questions though.
I'm currently on Blogspot, over at http://trzr23.blogspot.com I hope to move to a custom domain soon (probably a few months). My blog's currently just over three months old. I'm clocking in at around 300 hits on an average. Would you advice me as to move to a custom domain now (couple of months) or hold on for a bit (a year)?
I know Blogspot's been great, but for a noob coder such as myself, Wordpress offers more templates, tutorials and help, so is it wise to move to a free Wordpress (or WP installed on a custom domain) porting all of my blogger posts over?
When Blogger is exported to a custom domain, how do add new posts and customize etc. ? Do we still login to Blogger.com -> Dashboard -> New post or is there any special admin account on the domain?
Blogger stores images for free on Picassa but has a cap of 1GB. What happens in a custom domain? Where are the images stored now?
How much bandwidth and storage (images, video) do hosts offer? I'm currently thinking about Bluehost.
I hope you can get back to me on this. A load of thanks mate :) !!!
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@ trz23,
1) I would move to a custom domain now before your site gets even more popular. The sooner you get the benefits the better.
2) Yes, Wordpress is know for being the best blogging platform and has better features than Blogger. I would move over if I were you.
3) When blogger moves over to a custom domain you still login to the Blogger.com dashboard to make changes.
4) On a custom domain the images are hosted in the same place as before.
5) Bluehost is $6.95 a month for unlimited hosting space.
I hope this helps!
John
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It would be nice if this were possible but domain names cannot be purchased on a one time basis. Although, with hostgator you can sign up and pay for hosting in advance for every two years if you like.
But Blogger has an upload cap of 1GB I think?
I'm close to exceeding that. When a host offers storage space, why not store there? How does that work?
Thanks for the help ^^
hey john,
although i have been on blogspot (http://emobrij.blogspot.com/) for a year or so,i have got the traffic now only.still i feel its not sufficient. please do advise in this regard.
@trzr23,
Yes you will still have the upload cap and so I think your best bet is to transfer your blog to wordpress. This way you will not need to worry about a storage space limit.
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Hey I'm not sure if I understand your question entirely. What is not sufficient? Are you saying that blogger is not sufficient?
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