It's so simple easy to set up a custom domain with Blogger, but still many people have problems with that ...
I'm using 1and1, it's the same as the others, ONE STEP !

Thank you for the updates....

Nice Post.....

Nice article

Wow ! Thanks for sharing this.I will try to implement this on my blog

How Google DNS settings? Google DNS server addresses, what?
Google, as follows during the new DNS address is;
8.8.8.8
4.2.2.5
8.8.4.4

@caba - that link talks about Google Public DNS Server IPs which can be added to your TCP/IP properties(not related to this post).This is a tutorial on DNS Resource Records that should be created for CNAME aliasing.

Good info..

Aneesh ,
My 1st comment in this site.
Nice info,Good work.

nice help.
thanks...
I will implement on this..
Cheers... Keep the spark alive...
JD

Works great ! Thanks

its so simple..!
thanks for share..!

I love all of your tutorials! Thank you for writing this one.

Hi Aneesh,I think the idea i gave you to write a post like this was useful i guess.I think its very useful

Thanks your sharing broo...

wow, i've been looking on how to do this. Thank you ;)

Hi, please help, how to redirect non www. to www. in name panel.

I tried to do it whit name and it doesnt runs, i wanted to place my blogger as subdomain of other web i mean it may run but NO, it doesnt.

@Lexmax_ONE - which domain and sub-domain are you talking of?
Did you create the CNAME Records? If so it may take some time for the DNS changes to take effect. I can't help you without knowing your domain and subdomain urls.

It was impossible to created CNAME for after at everyDNS. do you have any solution?

@Dzignine - i am not familiar with the Cpanel of everyDNS. If it is impossible to create the second CNAME, then don't create. You willl be able to set your blogger blog If someone types, then they will not see your blog. thats all. nobody will normally type that url into the browser. :)

thanks .. nice info..

I set everything fine, according to your tutorial, but when trying to input my custom domain I got this error:
"Another blog is already hosted at this address"
What the hell?
Any solution?

@Aaron - use the magical Custom Domain Reset Form

for a complete nunu like myself - this article is a godsend

I was looking for this information since long...thanks!

hey i am unable to add subblog . I have registered domain name from blogger custom domain.

In google apps it shows user id and password .Does we have to fill host name ?
Plz contact me ASAP

@Priteh Taral - you have to create two CNAME Records as mentioned in the tutorial. Then you have to create a new blogger blog and switch it to that blogspot blog to Custom Domain as mentioned here.

Thanks alot . I have successfully added subblog on my custom domain.

well is it possible to create www....com/blog for my blog??

Great stuff, very useful thanks. I better get to it now before I forget! lol

thankyou

Excellent article. I just tried it on my site and works perfectly and at the first attempt. Now I have to setup the new english subpage of my web. Thank you very much for sharing.

Thanks. I'm using this now on my site.

wonderful tutorial......... thank for sharing

i'm registered before and i'm changed but i'm type new domain name on my browser but not found domain.

@Fantastic up 2 7 - do you own the domain? . I don't think so..

Great Article. How long it takes for subdomain to work?

this is great info. I am having one problem. My domain is kennyfriedman, I have that working and pointting to blog.kennyfriedman but when someone use www e.g. www,kennyfriedman I get a 404 error. I'm using godaddy.

awesome site here

@kenny - blogger has introduced the redirection option to help people in redirecting the non-www version of the url to the www version.

You are having a different kind of setup and you wont be able to redirect to using normal blogger redirection methods.

But you still might be able to do this if you delete that CNAME record for www pointing. After you delete that, you can use the Godaddy Free hosting to Setup a redirect. (Or you may try out the Godaddy Domain Forwarding.. I don't know if it will work as i no longer have a godaddy account)

I was looking for a way to get my naked-subdomain pointing to my custom domain. But I am now stuck, I can't tell how to make both work the same way.

Can you give me a hint where to look?

Thanks so much Aneesh - this worked perfectly. :-)

@nichive- point both of them to ghs.google via CNAME refferals. Now you can publish to subdomain.domain and then check the redirection option in your Publishing Settings

Thanks a lot for sharing this tutorial.
It works really nice! Cheers!

i brough a domain

iam unable to connect to blog please help me

@Telika Ramu - i cannot help you without knowing your blog url and without knowing what you have done

i have a domain account on godaddy,but my site hosted at another account,so how can i add a cname reccord ? whrere ? kindly reply me

Your post is really helpful for me. I have just set one of my domains using your tutorial.

@orkut scraps - if you have got a "Simple DNS Zone Editor" in your hosting cPanel, then you can do it from there. Otherwise you will have to contact your webhost via some support ticket and ask them to create it for you.

Aneesh sir

my domain

please help me

@Telika Ramu - You are trying to setup a Custom Domain and not a Sub domain. So refer these posts.

blogger-custom-domain-on-namecom.html
blogger-custom-domain-on-godaddy.html
You need to create one CNAME and 4 A Records to setup a Blogger Custom Domain. Instead you are using some Redirection or Forwarding option.

Aneesh..........

thanq..........

thanks

brilliant stuff broo...

can I show subdomain as

search.yourdomain.com only showing my search result and optimisation purpose

I set everything fine, according to your tutorial, but when trying to input my custom domain I got this error:
"Another blog is already hosted at this address"

Is there any solutions?

@Vinod - it is possible
@michaelvk - did you enter your subdomain url in that field? If so try using the Magical Custom Domain Reset Form and fill it with your SubDomain URL

That is for blogger blogs. I have a domain-name setup for blogger. Now, is it possible to create sub-domain like and use it for site other than blogger, like wordpress or any website? I bought domain name from local registrar.

@nima - yes it is possible. you will need to purchase a hosting account from some host like HostGator . By default your domain name will be using your domain registrar's NameServers.You will have to change the Name Servers of your Blogger Domain to that of your host.Doing this will make all the current records created on your Domain Control panel ineffective. So you will have to recreate all these records on your host. you will have to recreate the CNAME and 4 A Records(you are already using blogger. so i hope that you know of it) on the new Host from the "Simple DNS Zone Edior" in your Hosting cPanel.If you are using Google APPs on your domain, then you will need to re create the CNAME records for that as well.

and btw this is how my blog works.

Thanks... I get it now.

how to do same for basicnetworks please help me

@download - there are thousands of domain registrars on the web each with a different panel. I haven't used that registrar and so isn't familiar with it. you will need to create the 2 CNAME Records. Contact their support/forums help with creating the CNAME records.

If you are having a self hosted website, and you want to add blogger on it's subdomain, then you might be able to create the CNAMEs from the "Simple DNS Zone Editor"(present it most cPanels) in the hosting cPanel

Good

How much time does it take to get the confirmation email...???? As i also buy a new domain by using blogger custom domain and in my Google checkout account their is no purchase history available. I have purchased it 3 days ago and till date... i don't receive any type of confirmation regarding my domain. Please help me and reply as soon as possible.

And one thing more... can I use blogger sub domain in wordpress..??? For eg. Lets say my main domain is hosted on blogger and if i create a new subdomain now can I use my this sub domain in wordpress or any other hosting site or not....??????

By far the most easy to follow instructions on how to set up blogger subdomains that I have found. Thank you very much for your efforts!!

Hi Aneesh please be kind enough to verify the steps i taken are valid

1.already have created a blog and using with custom domain and its anuradha.eu as instructed i have added www cname and its working fine .
2.apart from my main blog i would like to creat a second blog and use a sub domain from my main domain for example blog.anuradha.eu

my question is do i first create the sub domain blog.anuradha.eu then follow your instructions by adding cnames blog & www.blog

Many Thanks in advance

@Ripslasher - Don't create any Sub-domains on your Godaddy Account. Just create the 2 CNAME records as mentioned here in the tutorial.(DNS changes can take time to propagate).
Btw you didn't create the 4 A Records. Refer blogger-custom-domain-on-godaddy.html

Aneesh cheers mate , u just make life less complicated

Hello there,

I really like your posts and i want to thank you for all i've learned.

Maybe i'm stupid, but i have a question and i would really apreciate if you could answear me. The question is : if i used "" for 2 months, i've shared the link everywhere i could. IF i buy a domain "", what happens when someone enters on the link "", will this link become a dead link or not ? I'm not sure if you understood what i've said. Is a little hard for me to explain this more accurately.

Please answear my question :D
Mihai

@Mihai -its a common doub't. :) your old blogspot blog and its posts will redirect to the new blog. see this video for more details how-to-setup-custom-domain-for-your.html

Thank you so much, especially that you asweared so fast :)

Congrats again on your blog :)
Mihai

Either i am missing sumthing or either you guys dosent know its side effect ? i have tried this and my site stop indexing !!!!! only the main page update and rest of the pages dosent index as one domain with 2 different hosted bloggers might give you a serious problem the prove you can write this site
site:bloggerplugin in google and see only 2 pages are indexed only ! becare ful and find a new soloution for it !

@Mayo - having a blog or some website doesn't have anything to do with indexing.

There was a confusion for me at first. Whether is it CNAME or sub-domain that need to be configured. To my bad, what I did was to make a subdomain and forward it. But that's not what I intended. Its CNAME that's need to be added. Thanks for writing this.

Helpful thank you....

I have change the CNAME and blog.mydomain works great but www.blog.mydomain not working. Getting 404 error page from google. I've just change the CNAME and it worked within 2-3 minutes. How long i have to wait for www.blog.mydomain
thanks in advacne

Excellent Tutorial. Thanks for sharing :)

will this work for sub....com/blog ?

Please Tell me how to use this facility for my blog

Exellent post... pitch perfect! thanks

Is it possible to use different template on subdomain? like I have already run a blog like mydomain and I want a sub-domain like gallery.mydomain (with a different blogger template)?

@Anonymous - yup they are two separate blogs, and hence can have different templates.

i use your step by step procedure
and when i looked up blogger it says

"The DNS record for your domain is not set up correctly yet. If you just purchased this domain the set up process may take up to a day"

it passes 24 hours infect 2 days and my blog is still dead.. what wrong?

@Piscean - this post is related to creating a sub-domain.
that being said, it seems like you haven't created the records properly.
Refer
1. blogger-custom-domain-on-namecom.html
2. blogger-custom-domain-on-godaddy.html

@Piscean - you can do CNAME lookups. Just enter your new blog url in the CNAME lookup box.

Aneesh yes i already had domain then through this post i edit DNS as u said in but from that day to still i am facing same problem. plz help me

now after reset at enom DNS setting look like this, now what should i edit and where?

@Piscean - as i said before, you are on the wrong post. This post deals with creating a subdomain(but both are similar).

I'm assuming that you need the new blog. As per the screenshot,you just need an additional CNAME with the following set of values
CNAME(Alias)
Add this row and you are done with the CNAME settings.It may take time to take effect.You can check if it has been reflected using CNAME lookup tools(that too will take time). Once you are done switch your blog (you can find info about that in the other tutorials that i mentioned)

Aneesh thanx alot.May ALLAH bless you
problem solved

Aneesh, Thanks for taking pains and trying to help everybody. Hats off to your high 'humanity index. :)
But I have a few doubts and questions. You see I own the website created on and through GoDaddy. I also created a blogger blog. I wanted this blog to supplement my main site. Then I thought of creating a subdomain on my main site domain, and redirected/forwarded that to the blogger blog.
Now, the implications were:
1) When I go to the blog through my subdomain and view the pages, I do not see the page names on the address bar (I think I used masking), I just see the above mentioned link, no matter what page I view.
2) If I do not use masking, then I see the blogger URL, with the pages, but I want my subdomain URL to show on the address bar with the pages.
3) My subdomain carries the same Alexa rating as that of my main site; whereas, my blogger blog URL shows a different Alexa rating (I had submitted the blogger blog as separate entity in Alexa. And both, the main site and blogger blog are separate on my webmaster tool.)
Aneesh, I want to know is it the right thing to do. I hope it does not hurt the SEO and the main site ranking. Somewhere I read that having subdirectory is better than having a subdomain for a blog, as then the main site benefits from the blog links. Otherwise a subdomain is treated as a completely new website.
I hope Google does not take it as two website sharing the same content, which would mean 'content duplication', and that would be very harmful.
Now, in my case, the blogger blog has (and is accessible) by its own URL as well as through my main site subdomain. Do I benefit in this way in terms of SEO and linking, or I am at a loss? Do I need to setup my subdomain on the blogger blog, or let it remain as it is? If one can forward, then why setup?
My subdomain doesn't have the 'www'.
I hope you understood my problem, as I'm confused myself.
Can you help, Aneesh?
Thanks in advance :)

@Harleena Singh
1)you know the reason for this. you are using masking and its not the right way to setup a subdomain
2)you haven't followed the steps mentioned in this tutorial
you need to create 2 CNAME records on Godaddy,stop the masking, and then switch your blogspot blog to that address using the Settings > Publishing tab.
3)you can't have a blogger blog on a sub-directory. The only way is to use a sub-domain or use the main domain.Once you are done with the steps mentioned here, your old blogspot blog will be 301 redirected to the corresponding page on the new subdoman.Your old blogspot urls will get deindexed from google, and the new sub-domained urls will get indexed. So there is no point of duplicate content unless, you make the same post somewhere else.

Thanks for your reply Aneesh. I think I am not going to setup my sub-domain for my blogspot blog now, as it is climbing high on Alexa (reached from 21 million to 2 million in about a month), and I'll be losing the ranking if the pages get de-indexed. Right? Do you think is there any probability of reaching the 100,000 mark in alexa at this rate?

Helo
I am having a domain in co.cc (exmple.co.cc)
how to set up subdomain.example.co.cc

Am using blogger and any help will be much appreciated !!

Same query as of Anand Raj's. Please help

I hosted my site in blogger with a custom domain but with my friend's computer IP address, i can't get into my site. but with proof IP i would able to see my site, i thought the problem with browser
(I checked with Google Analytics) but almost all browser visitors came to my site.I don't know what is the problem. Is the problem with my Server or Browser?

still not understood sirs.

how to set up subdomain.example.co.cc!!!!!!!!

Awesome tutorial, thanks so much :)

I asked my Host about Subdomains. They told they don't support. Idiots.
Saw your post. Now, I've two blogs @ :

Thank you.

i have a domain redit to my blog, but google don´t index

I did as you said. I have a domain on godaddy. I created 2 CNAMEs as you said. Did all you've said but still I cant see my blog site attached with it. When I go to my site, it still shows a Godaddy page. What is wrong with it?

My dns settings are with Verio, and for some reason I must use ghs.l.google, or Verio will throw an error.

I had to set both CNAME records accordingly, and wait a couple of days.

When changing the site from "myblog" to the subdomain on my domain, I again had to wait. The change was not instantaneous.

Everything I read seemed to suggest it should all work just after publishing to my subdomain, but for me, at least, it did not.

Hope my experiences help someone else, and thanks!

This is for one subdomain, how about creating a few more subdomains? Can it be done from one domain with blogspot?

Anyone here successfully configure multi sub domains for multi blogs hosted by Blogger whilst your root domain hosted elsewhere?

@Open door - yup you can have as many as you want, with your root domain hosted else where.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Very useful.

thank you very much for providing such a vital information regarding blogger domain name, it really helped me a lot.

This is a very good solution for a Blogger feature that I've never been pleased with. My Blogger site is hosted on a custom domain and I like using Blogger except for "Pages". When I created my first page I was disappointed having to work within the same template as the home page. I didn't want to throw out the style but frustrated that I couldn't change the layout, remove or replace without affecting every other page. I think I'm going to try this out with 1 or 2 sub-domains and experiment a little by using one as a page developer platform. You've got me thinking again, Thanks. Good stuff! Watch for changes.

hello. i would love to ask, i always receive an error after set the blog. why?

ok, first i already done what hv u told before, adding 2 cname and point to ghs.

ok, for the first half an hour, work fine, but then, after an hour, its gone. then the browser display:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8 Server


i wondering why? well, i have a static webpage and you will have the options to view my blog.


please help.. im tottally lost and blank, even my hosting provider cant help.

@Fakhrul -
has an "A" record pointing to
delete that and create a "CNAME" record for "" pointing to ""

DNS changes will take time to propogate. Check the redirection option in Blogger Publishing settings. For now your blog is available

Hi Aneesh,
As similar to what you had mentioned for @Fakhrul comment above....
Just for a clear desc..
WHat I want to do..
1.I have hosted on custom domain
2. I want to host a new blog say - at "Sub-domain" -->...

Hopefully this is possible..
I was refering your above post but the interface seem to have changed.. Additionally I was referring

but it asks for some IP address which I am not sure what to enter?

Can you please suggest?

Hey Aneesh, Please update the tutorial, Godaddy has changed a lot!!! I want a subdomain urgently!!!!

Hello. I have a custom domain hosted at blogger, but i want to create a subdomain with a forum hosted on another hosting company, so how can i do that ??

@Anturaju Daniel - change the nameservers of your domain to that of your hosting. Now you will be able to create any number of sub-domains (if your host permits). Now if you want the domain root to map to your blogger blog, then create a CNAME record

If I'm reading this correct...you can't setup a blogger to direct just to the subdomain and have the main domain behave separate with no Google records. The main domain needs the 4 A Records and the sub needs the additional CNAME? I was trying to send my blogspot to JUST the sub and use my main .com as normal.

Thanks

Dan

Thank you very very much !!!

Hi Aneesh
Kindly clarify this for me.

I own and I use blogger. I wish to add a page and want the URL to be a sub-domain name in the same blog.

How do I do it?

Regards,
Admin

where it says blog user movies
where it says www.blog
that's it..

awesome. I still wonder that if it is possible.. kewl..

Aneesh you've done it again! Everytime I search for something blogger related your the person that has the best answers and they work everytime!

Hi Aneesh, I have my custom domain with blogger. I followed your instructions and setup the 2 CNAME records on enom (say, blog.mydomain and www.blog.mydomain).

The problem is that when I add the subdomain(blog.mydomain) as the new address on a 2nd blog on blogger, it also tries to redirect my domain naked url(mydomain) to it.
So the 2nd blog address settings shows like this:


[ ] redirect mydomain.com to blog.mydomain

I've tried unchecking the redirect option on the second blog but then redirecting turns off on both blogs disabling the naked URL(mydomain) completely.

Could you give some advice to fix this?
Thank you.

@jon cassidy - thank you so much for the kind words :-)
@Davo - this thing is totally strange.. what are your Blog URLS?
And what does the redirect option in the second blog's dashboard read like?

@Davo - Blogger no longer permits you to redirect the www sub domain to the non-www version. So you can't use that redirect option unless you are publishing

Friends, thank you, this help me

Thank you for this article.

This article solved my problem. Thank you very much for this post.

Thank ou very much for helping us.
I want to know, that can we host our subdomain on another hosting site???

nice, thanks

My man,

i was "noobing" for this for ages, cant thank you enough.

Great cut & dry tutorial.

your blog is awesome man, thanks for the sharing...

Hola bro ...

I've done what u mentioned ... but unable to setup subdomain for my domain which i bought from blogger ( godaddy ) .. even set the CNAME n all ... no use :-( ... guide me what to do

great tutorial,, but what is if I want the sub domain and domain in single blog?

i got it and make a sub-domain with name

So if we have to create 5 sub-domains then we should first create 5 different blogs in Blogger and point each to the separate sub-domains. right? Please suggest urgently as i need to create sub-domains. Thanks in advance buddy.

Hey thanks.. It's very easy but I was confused, you really helped me. I have just created subdomain on my blog and hosted it on blogger.. :)

thanks

Once you create the subdomain to use on a Blogger website, will this domain appear like most subdomains that top websites like Yahoo and MSN use? For example, "Wonderwall" or "OMG" are two popular subdomains that operate under the main websites.

Wonderwall is pointing to the subdomain, as is OMG. If I create a subdomain, can I point a domain and publish content on the subdomain? I would to point the generic domain to a movie website.

Thanks in advance.

This Article Is very helpful for my Website

Pavan @(pavanh)
Hi ,

I started my blogging with subdomain and now i moved to custom domain
i just wanted to ask you on moving from subdomain to custom , whatever backlinks which were achieved from subdomain will it be lost or redirected to custom domain

Waiting for your reply
Thank you

hi aneesh

i have domain so i have hosting for this. and top level domain is on blogger, now i want to make downloads for this blogger site on subdomain with my hosting space.. Please help me asap

Thanks in advance

Hi, so I have a blogger site linked to a domain registered via godaddy. i bought a hosting plan from ixwebhosting. i want to reyain as the index linking to the blogger site i have but would like to create a subdomain and link that to the index page of the ixwebhosting acct. which cname records do i change and do i have to do anything with their nameservers? and on which site's nameservers? ;))

Getting Error Message: A,NS,MX,AAAA record Exists having same name. Please Check For Record Conflicts.

As my Main domain also hosted at blogger, how can i get subdomain with the same blogger account

Hi, Thanks for message. I want to redirect. I have tried as per your above discussion. But its not working.

Please let me know about redirection

i dont see a option saying advanced option

can i use this tutorial for domain that already hosted on blogger, so i can add subdomain like shop. that also hosted on blogger?

Literally googled this for DAYS, literally every site said the incorrect things... I was pulling my hair out! THEN I found this page and it solved everything so easily! THANK YOU SO MUCH.

hello fried, i am blogger. i want to give a sub-domain for by blog and so on. Settings > Add Custom Domain (i do'nt see Add Custom Domain on by blogger settings). can you please help to do it with in a day