Your Domain With Google Apps (PART 4 - Setting Up A Blog)

The easiest way to do this is going with blogger. Now that you have your own Domain, you can go through and setup a blog. You should have an email address now with your Domain. The email that I setup through my examples was david@segudavr.com. This is the administrative email that I used for my new Domain.

So going into Blogger, you need to create a new account. Use your Domain's primary email contact as the email you use to signin to Blogger. Create your new account, then go to Settings > Publishing and choose "Your Domain". Don't forget to add the "www" in the front. So for my Domain, I added (http://)www.segudavr.com. The "http://" was already there, so don't worry about that. Put a check in the "Redirect" check box and you are good to go.

Once that is setup, you will need to edit some DNS settings again. Go back to GoDaddy and get to your Domain Management. You will need to create some "A (Host) Records". Add the following "Points To" to get this working (Host needs to be @ and TTL should be 1/2 Hour initially. Change this to 1 Hour after everything is working):

• 216.239.32.21
• 216.239.34.21
• 216.239.36.21
• 216.239.38.21

If you have any other "A (Host) Records", go ahead and delete them.

Once the Blog Domain redirect is complete, your Blog from Blogger.com is live. Go ahead and start Blogging!