Redirect your GoDaddy url to Blogger

Well this issue was quite a pain to solve. I wanted to redirect my newly acquired url of skull-trail.com to my blogger account and faced a lame problem of only being able to redirect www.skull-trail.com to my blogger account while when I tried to redirect skull-trail.com (without the www prefix), I would end up at a godaddy page instead! After days of experimenting, I finally discovered how to solve this problem and will now share it with you. After you have acquired your new GoDaddy url and want it to work with your blogger, first of all head over to your blogger setting and then click on the publishing tab.



Type in the URL of your new website in the Your Domain text box. I typed in my URL as www.skull-trail.com also check the tick box below it which says redirect yourwebsite.com to www.yourwebsite.com. This checkbox should've helped to redirect my website to the new URL without any problems (skull-trail.com to www.skull-trail.com), but unfortunately, it did not work. To fix this I had to head over to GoDaddy.com and log into my account.

After logging in click on myaccount. Under the domain names link, click the manage domains link. On the new page, click on your URL which you want to set up with ur blog.



On the next screen, click on the Total Control and MX Records link.



On the next screen, you can either add a new CName if a WWW host does not already exist. If it doesn't add a new CName and point its host to ghs.google.com, otherwise, click the existing www cname and make it point to the ghs.google.com link.


After this step, click on Start>Run in your windows and type in cmd and press enter to open up the windows console. Now you have to ping your blog. In this case I typed ping skulltrail.blogspot.com
(That was my old blogspot blogger address). Note down the ip address that shows up. Either you can do that...or you can wait for a couple of days for the DNS of your website to spread over the internet and then ping your new URL instead, in my case it was www.skull-trail.com and note down the IP address. (I said a couple of days because even after you apply these settings in GoDaddy, it will take at least 2 days before you are able to access your blog from your new URL. So, don't panic if you still see the old godaddy page after following these steps and trying out the address immediately afterwards).

Now you have to associate this IP Address with your A Host in your godaddy account. Go to the same manage domains page and your total dns control panel and edit your A Host or @ and make it point to the ip address you noted down by pinging your website URL (or blogspot url).



Again you might have to wait at least 48 hours before you can see the changes take effect. I hope this post helped out everyone who wants to modify their blogger address to their new URLs.