As we all know, Google's Blogger (also called Blogspot) is an extremely easy to set up and easy to manage free blogging platform. After WordPress, Blogger is the most famous platform for blogging. A lot of new bloggers on their first try at blogging, create a free blogger blog.
There are many advantages as well as few disadvantages of using Blogger as a platform instead of WordPress. When you start a blog with Blogger, you get a free subdomain of blogspot.com along with free unlimited hosting (with an exception of 1GB limit of Picassa for storing images) and the URL of your blog looks like yourblog.blogspot.com
But after your blog starts receiving some good amount of readership and starts to grow to a full scale blog, it is not advisable to continue with the free subdomain. There are many disadvantages of subdomains and there are even more advantages of having your own top-level domain name. In my future posts, I am going to discuss those advantages and disadvantages in detail.
For now, I am sure you are reading this because you have already decided to buy a domain name and redirect your blog to it. So in this set of tutorials, I will explain the step by step procedure of setting up a Blogger blog on a custom domain.
Here is a brief summary on what is discussed in the tutorial:
- Choosing the perfect domain name at the best price
- Editing CNAME records according to latest update by Blogger.
- Redirecting old blogspot URL to new domain.
- Redirecting non-www (naked URL) to www URL.
- Editing blogger template to replace occurrence of old URL with new URL.
- Making necessary changes to Feedburner and other services to maintain old records.
I have divided the tutorial in 2 parts:
2. Redirecting your old yourblog.blogspot.com to new yourblog.com and making necessary changes to blog template, to maintain RSS subscribers and other services.
Click on the above links to get to the tutorials. Hope you find it helpful!
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