Blogger is one of the biggest blog publishing platform which is hosted by Google.You can create your blog in blogger absolutely free of cost which gives yoursite.blogspot.com as your url which is sub domain of blogger. If you want to give a custom name to your blog and make your site look like yoursite.com instead of yoursite.blogspot.com then you would need to buy a domain name from a service provider and then map it to your blog on blogger.
Bigrock is one of the best service provider in the market.If you did not buy any domain name then i would suggest you to buy from Bigrock with 25% offer by using shetoldme.in as your Coupon Code.If you already have the domain name, then lets move ahead and follow the step by step procedure on how to setup Bigrock custom domain with Blogger.
Steps to Setup custom domain with Blogger
Step 1 : Login in to your BigRock Control Panel and click on the domain name under the List of Orders.
Step 2 : Scroll down to find “DNS Management” and then click on “Manage DNS” button.
Step 3: A new window will opened,in that by default you will be under “A Records” tab. Click on “Add A Record”. Delete if any default records exist.
Step 4 : Leave the Host Name blank and enter 216.239.32.21 in the Destination IPv4 Address.Do not make any changes to the TTL and click on “Add Record“.
Step 5 : Now add the below 3 records of Destination IPv4 Address by following the Step 4 procedure.
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
After adding the 4 records your A Records should look like this.
Blog verification
Step 6 : Log in your blogger Account, Go to setting > Basic. Under Publishing Click on + Set up a third-party URL for your blog .
Enter your domain name with www(e.g. www.shetoldme.in) in the textbox and click on Save.
After you click on save, Blogger will throw an error to verify your authority on that domain name.
Now we need to add the above two records provided by Blogger in the BigRock.
Step 7 :Now again go to Bigrock and click on CNAME Records tab and then click on Add CNAME record.
Add the first record provided by blogger.In Host Name field write “www” and in value field write "ghs.google.com" and click on “Add Record” button.
Step 8 : Now, lets add second record,click on “Add CNAME Record” Button. Copy the 2nd code from blogger and paste it in Host Name field and copy the other code and paste it in value field. Click “Add Record”.
After adding your cname Records should look like this.
Step 9 : Now lets move to blogger again and repeat Step 6 to verify your domain. For this, Log in your blogger Account, Go to setting > Basic. Under Publishing Click on + Set up a third-party URL for your blog .Enter your domain name with www(e.g. www.shetoldme.in) in the textbox and click on Save. This time it will save without any error.
Tick Mark redirect domain name to www.domainname and click on save button.
Sometimes it may take 2 hrs to configure,so don't worry and be patient.
If you face any problem feel free to ask.
