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Pick the Best Domain for Your Blog
Picking a domain name for your website is not so hard job. Before purchasing a domain name you should consider below points:
- Keywords: It help domain to rank higher in search engine results, domain should target a specific keyword. Your domain name should be related to your blog niche, like our blog is providing stuffs related to blogger i.e. we have used term "blogger" and we have also used term "dev" because we are also writing tutorial on web development.
- Length & Hyphens: Domain length should be shorter and you should not use lots of hyphens to it because it will make it catchy and easy to memorize so the user can come back to your website and not forget about it.
- Extension: We all know that .com is the most popular extension for domain but apart from .com their are lots of other extensions available. If your site is related to networking technologies then you can use .net extension or if your site is about an organization then get .org. If it is an informational site, getting a .info won’t hurt you either.
Purchase a Domain Using Godaddy
Godaddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar provider and more than 55 million domains are under their management. Even I use Godaddy domains for my all blog and I my blog never goes down. Follow below steps to purchase a domain using Godaddy.
- Go to godaddy.com and create a new account.
- Now use domain search tool and search for the domain name you want.
- If the searched domain name is available then click on Add button placed next to your domain.
- After adding domain name godaddy starts showing you many other product for purchase, Just skip all others offer showed by godaddy and click on Continue to Checkout.
- Now if you have promo code then you can use it to get some discount on your domain, Now finally Proceed to checkout and pay then via paypal, cash card, credit card etc.
Setup Godaddy domain on blogger's blog
After purchasing a domain name you have to park it to your blogger's blog, follow below steps to easily point your Blogger blog to your domain name.
- Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard >> Setting tab of you blog and click on the "Add a custom domain" link.
- Step 2: Enter the URL you would like to use for your blog and click on Save button.
- Step 3: When you will click on save button a warning will appear in front of your computer screen. This warning will provide you some important information which will help us in locating DNS.
- Now in new windows open godaddy.com and login to your account.
- In your account click on launch button placed next to Domain.
- Now in domain manager click on your domain.
- Now go to DNS Zone File and press Edit button.
- Now in cname (Alias) we need to replace @ with ghs.google.com placed next to www and also add host detail provided in step 3.
- Now click on Save zone file.
- Go back to the Blogger settings window we kept open in Step 3 and click "Save" again.
- Congratulations!!! You have successfully parked your godaddy domain to your blogger blog.
From the Editor Desk
Godaddy can take upto 1hr to update all your information and make your domain go live. If you have more question or you face any problem while setup your domain on blogger then feel free to contact us or comment your problem below.