Redirect Your Blogger Custom Domain to a WWW Subdomain

By Blog Bloke September 30th, 2007 | 31 Comments

I don’t know if I missed this before or if it’s something new, but I just noticed that Blogger has an option to automatically redirect your Custom Domain to a “www” subdomain.

I already explained how to set this up through your domain host provider in my previous tutorial to make your Custom Domain play nice with Blogger, but it’s nice to know that Blogger is also offering it as a feature in your dashboard.

To set it up on your blog just go into your Blogger dashboard under the menu “Settings”, “Publishing” and scroll down to the “Advanced Settings’ for your Custom Domain. Underneath you will see an option for redirecting your domain name without a “www” subdomain to an address with one.

Check out the pic below to see what I mean:

Blogger Custom Domain Advanced Settings

Just put a check mark in the box and you’re done. Related Posts: Best Setup for Custom Domains


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    1. Yeah, I believe they just stuck that option in the other day.

      I don’t need it really for my blogs that use a custom domain, but maybe it will help everyone else.

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    2. Awfully nice of them don’t you think :)

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    3. Blog Bloke - I have set up my blog’s custom domain name, selected the above mentioned option, but the non-www version still is not redirecting. Any suggestions?

      cory huff’s last blog post..10 Tips for Getting Along with Your In-Laws.

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    4. Cory, give your settings 24 hours or more to propagate. If it still doesn’t work then you can use my method that I explain in setting up your blogger custom domain:

      http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/

      That way you are using your domain host for the redirect. I prefer my method but I wouldn’t use both ways at the same time because there could be a conflict.

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    5. Blogger’s custom domain settings and GoDaddy are giving me a headache. To put it mildly.

      When I set up my Domain Name (www.agoodhusband.net) everything was fine, except that agoodhusband.net wasn’t forwarding to www.agoodhusband.net.

      I emailed GoDaddy and they originally told me that the problem was with Google’s server. This didn’t make sense to me, so I did some research and couldn’t figure anything out.

      I called GoDaddy last night and spent about 30 minutes on the phone with them. They told me to:

      point the CNAME
      www to @
      point the host
      @ to 64.202.189.170

      then they had me enable forwarding.
      Forward www.agoodhusband.net to http://agoodhusband.blogspot.com and mark it as a 301 redirect.

      They also had me enable masking on the domain agoodhusband.net

      Now, under the Advanced settings in Blogger, I put in www.agoodhusband.net as the domain to forward http://agoodhusband.blogspot.com to. I also checked the box that says “forward agoodhusband.net to www.agoodhusband.net.

      After all of this went through, when typing in my domain (any of the three, www, non www, or the blogger subdomain) I got the Blogger redirect message asking if I really wanted to redirect. I clicked Yes and got sent back to the same message. Endless loop of death.

      I disabled Blogger’s forwarding to the custom domain name. This made all three domains work but now I have two problems:

      - each domain displays the website, but they all show as separate domains in the address bar.

      - I disappeared from the search engines. WTF? Analytics shows 1 search hit from Google, where I had hundreds before.

      Can anyone help me…and, no, telling me to switch to WP is not helping…sorry.

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    6. No, No, and NO! Did I say No???

      Don’t listen to those bozos at GoDaddy Cory. They don’t understand how Google’s redirect works. I’m the first and only one who figured this out and hundreds of happy customers can’t be wrong.

      I understand it’s frustrating but you need to start from the beginning again and make sure you do each step in my instructions.

      Forget about using Blogger’s redirect mentioned in this post. Do it according to my instructions here:

      http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy/

      Carefully go over every step again and make sure your don’t miss a thing. It will work!

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      Shelley on Oct 28th, 2008 at 6:42 am replied...

      Hi, I’m having various issues getting my site to do exactly what I want it to do. I bought a domain and hosting on GoDaddy.com, and changed the cname info so it goes to my blogspot blog. The only problem is, if I want to do additional pages in the folder on my godaddy site, like a /about or /contact, that page is shown as not existing, presumably because it is on godaddy rather than on blogspot where my cname is redirected. How can I fix this?

      I ask that here because there was also a post you mentioned in a comment above that I’m hoping may give me other useful information, but it is no longer at the link you mentioned, and I can’t find it. Do you have the new link? Here is the item in question:

      “Forget about using Blogger’s redirect mentioned in this post. Do it according to my instructions here:

      http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy-blogger-custom-domains-best-setup-for-optimizing-your-blog-pagerank/

      Carefully go over every step again and make sure your don’t miss a thing. It will work!”

      Thanks for any help!

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      Blog Bloke on Nov 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm replied...

      I think this is the address you are looking for:

      http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy/

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      Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on November 2nd, 2008 3:29 pm:

      Shelley (@blogbloketips) reply on October 28th, 2008 6:42 am:

      Eden on Nov 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 am replied...

      Hi,

      I’m having the same issue with the redirecting loop of horror. (Blogspot redirecting message- click yes to redirect…then the same message pops up) My site is hosted through BlueDomino & I followed the directions from Blogger in order to make a CNAME file pointing to a google site. Blue Domino says everything looks fine on their end…meanwhile, I’m pulling my hair out over here b/c I can’t access my blog! Please help!

      Thanks,
      Eden

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      Blog Bloke on Nov 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm replied...

      This should be the post you are looking for:

      http://www.blogbloke.com/custom-domain-blogger-dns-seo-godaddy/

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      Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on November 2nd, 2008 3:30 pm:

      Eden (@blogbloketips) reply on November 2nd, 2008 8:20 am:

    7. BB - you are simply amazing. I don’t understand why you understand this and GoDaddy doesn’t, but it’s simply the truth. I followed your directions and it took me all of about five minutes. Everything is fine, now, and for some reason I don’t understand, the search engines picked me back up, so … I don’t get it, but it works.

      cory huff’s last blog post..Supporting Your Wife After Rape or Sexual Abuse

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    8. Another happy customer. :-)

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    9. Hmmm, it’s not working for me. I used your method (in the other post, but those comments are now closed) to the letter and it’s been well over 24 hours - going on 3 days. Any idea? I’ve done it exactly as your instructions and screen shots showed - everything looks as though it should work. I’m stumped.

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      Blog Bloke on May 13th, 2008 at 11:39 am replied...

      Well… it works so in a case like yours I would contact your domain host provider because it might not have propagated and ask them to force it through, OR undo everything and start over from the beginning again and make sure you carefully follow every step.

      If at first you don’t succeed — perseverance accomplishes much.

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      Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on May 13th, 2008 11:39 am:

      Blog Bloke on May 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm replied...

      Sorry, but I had to remove your last comment because the link that you referenced will confuse my readers. But I will say this. If you are using Google Apps for your domain you must disable it before Blogger will allow you to publish. This is a well-known documented bug-a-boo and I’m assuming that was the case for you. If you have corrected it following my tutorial should work for you now. Cheers!

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      Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on May 13th, 2008 2:17 pm:

    10. Hi,

      I’ve found your post on the subject very helpful and everything works.

      I was wondering if you can expand a bit on some ramifications such as:
      1. New links to the new domain (do they add up with the old ?)
      2. Feedburner feeds - what are the necessary updates?
      3. Technorati ?
      4. Search results drop?

      I’d love to hear more from your experience.

      Regards,
      Dorian

      Dorian Wales’s last blog post..Budgeting for Unexpected Expenses

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      Blog Bloke on May 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am replied...

      Thanks for the ideas Dorian. They’re on my to-do list.

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      Blog Bloke (@blogbloketips) reply on May 24th, 2008 11:36 am:

    11. Ok I have figured out how to redirect a sub domain..

      Now what if i was to redirect the blogspot to http://www.zeenatboutique.com/blog to host my blog spot is it possible..

      I tested the subdomain http://blog.chicstyler.com/ and that works fine.

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      BLOGBloke on Oct 15th, 2009 at 5:31 pm replied...

      @Mahmood, you can redirect to any domain you wish.

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      BLOGBloke (@blogbloketips) reply on October 15th, 2009 5:31 pm:

    12. This is a good post although the layout of the site is slightly off in Chrome and in IE6.

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      BLOGBloke on Oct 30th, 2009 at 4:04 am replied...

      @Pool Villa, can you be more specific?

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      BLOGBloke (@blogbloketips) reply on October 30th, 2009 4:04 am:

    13. thanks !! very helpful blog!

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    14. That sounds great!
      I’d like to use another domain for my blog so I like how it’s convenient as well now :)

      Thanks for the post!

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    15. This is a nice posting from you … Congrats

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    16. thanks, this post is useful :) so far i think the cheapest i found is 99 cents only to own a personalized .COM domain name… that is really crazy sales bit.ly/cheapestdm99

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    17. I need help! I have redirected a blog, http://kaeserhomes.blogspot.com .to kaeserhomes.com but when trying to create links (through Gadgets) to the php files on the custom domain, they do not work. I don’t understand about subdomains. Do I need one? How do I create one and WHY do I need one? Anything you can recommend would be great!

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      BLOGBloke on Aug 6th, 2010 at 6:03 pm replied...

      @jane, I’m sorry but I don’t follow you. You seem to be using Blogger so PHP is not relevant. You can read more about subdomains here http://www.blogbloke.com/url-with-or-without-www/ .

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      BLOGBloke (@blogbloketips) reply on August 6th, 2010 6:03 pm:

    18. @Mahmood, you can redirect to any domain you wish. http://bit.ly/2C3IP8

    19. @Pool Villa, can you be more specific? http://bit.ly/2C3IP8

    20. Gracias @spejman @raventos ¿Alguien ha probado la opción de blogger http://bit.ly/68ckGb

    21. @jane, I'm sorry but I don't follow you. You seem to be using Blogger so PHP is not relevant. You can read more abo… http://bit.ly/2C3IP8

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