Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating your very own blog. Blogs are hosted for free by blogspot.com and your blogs URL consists of your blogs name.blogspot.com. This is not ideal for everyone, and you may wish to use your own domain name, www.mydomain.co.uk or you may want to have your new blog on a sub domain such as www.blogger.mydomain.co.uk to look more professional.

Blogger lets you setup a third party URL for you blog, this lets you use your own domain name instead of the default blogger domain name. If you have a cPanel hosting account where your domain name is registered, this may be the case if you have your main website but just want to have your new blog on a sub domain; then follow these simple steps to configure your DNS settings and point your blogger blog to your own domain name.

Configure Blogger

First you need to setup the domain name within your blogger account. Once you login to blogger you will need to select the blog you wish to configure.

In the menu options on the left hand side click settings and then basic.

Scroll down till you see the publishing section and Blog Address, here you will see your blogs domain name, click of the link + Set up a third-party URL for your blog.

In order to set your own domain name you must have already purchased a domain name.

In the section Third-party domain settings you need to enter the domain name that you want people to be able to find your blog on. There are two examples below, one for if you want to use your main domain and one for creating your blog on a sub domain of the domain name your own.