How to Forward Your Blogger to a Subdomain

Direct browsers to your main website from Blogger.

Blogger is a free Internet blogging program that users can sign up for to create and publish their own public blogs. A subdomain is a type of web hosting redirection that takes browsers to specific parts of a website. Some blogger users set their blogs to forward browsers to their personal or company subdomains, where the browsers can access more information, purchase products or use their subdomain for other purposes. This feature that blogger offers can only be set by the user who holds the blogger account.

Instructions

1. Sign into your blogger account. You will need to put in your username and password.

2. Click your mouse on the option for "Dashboard," once you arrive at the main page or screen. The dashboard icon is located at the top right corner of the page.

3. Wait for the dashboard page to open. Look for the option for Settings. Select "Settings" with the mouse.

4. Review the options on the page for Settings. This page displays a variety of labeled tabs at the top. The tab you are currently in when the Settings page opens is called Basic. These are your basic options. Click on the tab that says Publishing. This opens up a new page.

5. Look for the link to the words "Custom Domain." Select this option with the mouse. This takes you to a page that says "Publish on a Custom Domain." If you already have a purchased domain that you own, you can type the subdomain into the empty box that starts with "http://www." If you don't already have a subdomain, you can type the name of the subdomain that you want in the box and check the availability for it. If the name is available, the blogger program will give you the option to purchase the domain name. At the time of publication, a one year registration for the subdomain is $10.

6. Check the box that appears underneath the space where you typed the subdomain name. The box will say "Redirect to..." with your subdomain name. This completes the process for forwarding your blogger to a subdomain.

Resources

• Blogger: Create Blogger Account