This post is quite a bit nerdy so, readers, beware!
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I posted this on the Google Apps group last week. I registered my domain martinmcdowell.com through Google Apps and wanted to use the same domain with Blogger, but using a sub-domain blog.martinmcdowell.com. I know Blogger allows the use of your own domain, but I wasn’t sure if it will work with a sub-domain and also, if this will disrupt the functionality of Google Apps.
I found out, it worked. As I said, I registered the domain martinmcdowell.com though Google Apps and wanted to use it for my blog at Blogger.com. You do understand that I cannot be responsible, if everything goes tits-up but I do say that this worked for me very well.
What you have to do is the following:
1. go to Blogger.com, sign in and go to Settings – Publishing – use own domain. I entered blog.martinmcdowell.com and saved the settings.
2. then you have to change the CNAME table at the registrars: this is done by signing in http://tdns.secureserver.net using the sign-in number and password you can see in Google Apps settings. The instructions on doing this are here: https://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=47610
The alias I used was “blog” I saved it and it worked straight away.
Sometimes you have to wait longer (a few days) for the DNS servers to update.
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0 responses so far ↓
1 TravNurse // Jan 3, 2008 at 03:31
What if you have a custom domain for you blogger account already and want to use the same domain in conjunction with google apps (including google pages).I assume it would have to be a subdomain.
I did consider using a a different domain name for the google apps but thought it may be bad from a SEO perspective.
Thought of doing what you did after the fact but I think the blog being the main traffic driving medium should get the main domain name and then using google apps/pages as the back end.
What do you think?
CJ
2 McDragon // Jan 3, 2008 at 06:42
Tough one CJ. That means you would either have to somehow register the domain with Google Apps or create a new domain and then manually change the CNAMES table.
The Godaddy interface will allow that I just am not sure if Google Apps will find it a problem not having the default www subdomain.
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