Adding a custom domain to your blog brings more professionality and increase your rankings in search engines. Adding a custom domain to your blogger blog will change your blog address from yourblog.blogspot.com to yourblog.com, yourblog.tk, yourblog.net or whatever domain extension you registered. Today I am going to share a great tutorial on how you can register free .tk, .ga, .gq, .cf, .ml domains for your blog and use it as a custom domain name in blogger. This will surely build a trust toward your visitors and increase your visitors count too as people prefer to visit a custom domain blog instead of a sub-domain. So let's start the tutorial on using freenom free domain names as blogspot blog's custom domain.
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How to Register Free Freenom Domain :
Just follow the below steps to register your .tk, .ml, .cf, .ga, .gq domain name for 1 year absolutely free of cost. After the completion, we will discuss on how to use it as a custom domain on Blogger.
- Go to Freenom.com and check availability by entering a great domain name for your blog.
- If it is available, click on Get it now! button and the selected domain will be added to your cart.
- After that, Click on checkout tab.
- On the next page, change Period from 3 months to 12 months ( Don't worry, it remains free) and Click Continue.
- Now enter your email address in the given space (as shown in picture) or you can use your social profile for login. If you want to sign up using email address then enter it and click on Verify my Email.
- Check! You will receive a confirmation link to your email address. Simply, click on that.
- Congrats! You have registered your free domain.
Now It's time to set up to use it as a custom domain. For doing so, follow the steps.
How to Set Freenom Custom Domain to Blogger?
- Go to your Blogger blog's Dashboard and click on the Settings tab.
- Under Publishing, you will see a button like this: "+Set up a third-party URL for your blog", Click on that.
- Enter the domain name you just registered through Freenom. (along with www) and click Save.
- It will show error, Don’t worry it means that your freenom domain does not yet point to any DNS record.
- So, Go to your freenom account. On Menu bar “Domains” click on sub-menu “My Domains”
- Click on Manage Domains and then Manage Freenom DNS.
- Enter the CNAME records as shown by Blogger (in step 4)
- Also, add these 4 A records. (Leave Name Empty and enter these values one by one in Target Area.
216.239.32.21
Click on Save changes. For picture preview on how to correctly enter DNS records. Click here.
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21 - Now, move to Blogger account (as you leave in step 4) and click on Save button again.
- It will not show any error now and will get saved.
Sometimes, It may take up to few minutes to update the DNS records, so keep patience if it still shows error and tries saving it after 5-10 minutes. - Once it gets saved, Click on Edit and tick the redirect box and press Save again.
Well done! You have successfully setup a free custom domain name for your blogspot blog. Freenom domains can be used on any website rather than using a custom domain on blogger. You can also create an e-commerce store on freenom domain and choosing a great hosting for to host your site, which you can buy easily at cheap price in hosting black friday 2017 sale. You can use Online inventory management software which is absolutely free and help in making you own e-commerce store more professional.
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42 comments:
thank you alot
Thanks a lot.
It not working
nice job.
please! expand about a records, where they're from???
216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
@OFUS
Let us know what problem exactly you're facing.
@NotJohn Sandson
These A-records helps in redirecting naked domain to your www subdomain.
hi again, of course thanks, that worked even twice already, on different places.
but how do i figure out myself these a-record numbers?
i need to be able to track those digits myself, because if something disrupts the connection, then i am stuck, and it's daunting to even consider this.
so i need your help man, please.
@NotJohn Sandson
Buddy! These A-records remains same for all blogger custom domain.These all are google's IPs that helps to redirect your non www to www. These are all secured, you can try by visiting them in browser. You will find a google error there.
I hope it helps.
Stay Connected :)
@Hammad Ansari
but if these a records change?
what do i do then?
what are the steps to track them?
i'm desperate to know please!
@NotJohn Sandson
You can easily track them directly from your Domain's DNS records settings from your Domain provider's Dashboard.
@Hammad Ansari
in this case, domain's provider is freenom?
if so, how do i navigate to the dashboard?
@NotJohn Sandson
Go to your freenom account. On Menu bar “Domains” click on sub-menu “My Domains”
Click on Manage Domains and then Manage Freenom DNS.
Hope this helps.
i got zone not yet active in freenom dashboard..?
@Universal Geist
It will takes upto few hours to activate your new Zone records.
the blogger shows can not find vaid after doing all steps two 3 times now what should i dp
@kashmir STRUGGLE edi by WahidWani
Sometimes, it takes upto few hours to update new DNS. So I request you to kindly wait for some hours and then proceed again.
@NotJohn Sandson
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387?visit_id=1-636488411692311515-4236914038&p=customdomain&hl=en&rd=2
Here is the resource.
didn't work. can't u talk more on this
I'm here to help you Buddy!
Please specify your exact issue.
tnx so much wz really helpfull
tq
Thanks so much.Really helpful
@Aregbe Ayomide
Thanks for appreciating Buddy! Stay Connected with BBeginner.
very very very helpful. thank you !!!!!
Thanks bro you saved my day.
should be specific, how to enter CNAME records?
@Proda C Goldman
Just take a look at the steps 5 to 7 mentioned above.
Thanks so much! It finally worked!! :)
We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 9.
Thanks
Hi, Thank you for your passage, but I still get error 9. Have you any idea about what should I do?
THANKS IT HELPS !
Thanx sir
I take a domain. ml and add record that time work my domain and stil run maybe 10 days my website but now don,t wokr I try and try but say this site not reach take took long time respos and say maybe you use other device ruter or other place what I can sove my problem
Shukria!
Hii I followed new Steps and used domain https://codemarkup.blogspot.com => https:/www.codemarkup.ml But it isnot working please Help me out
Very excelent. Greatfull for this tutorial.
Thanks Alot it help to change my domain from .blogspot.com to .ml
www.makarantaryanargizo.ml
i get zone is not active from the day i registered what should i do now please help me
when i click manage freedome dns they are saying that zone is not yet active what should i do?
@Evil Kannevil
Buddy! You need to wait for few hours to get it activated.
Thnks
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