My domain name and blogspot blog

URL not found messsage

[farmboy]

I have a blogspot blog and have went through the steps indicated by Google to use my own domain name on the blog. (greenwidgets.com for example)

When I go to Google and search for "greenwidgets.com" (without the quote marks) I get a message that http: //greenwidgets.com is not found on the server.

But if I search for "www.greenwidgets.com" (without the quote marks) I'm taken directly to the site/blog

How can I get it to work for searches for "greenwidgets.com" ?


FarmBoy

[phranque]

How do I use a custom domain name on my blog? - Blogger Help:
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373 [google.com]

[farmboy]

Thanks, but those are the steps I've already completed.

FarmBoy

[mic089]

I'm not sure if I understand the problem correctly.

Is it that searching for greenwidgets.com in Google gives you a search result that says "http: //greenwidgets.com is not found on the server" (rather than a snippet of text from your website)?

Or is it that if you type greenwidgets.com into the address bar and try to visit the site, it is not there?

[phranque]

there is a section in there that starts:

Create 'A' NAME records for your naked domain (blog.com)

are you saying you have created "A" records for greenwidgets.com and it still doesn't resolve?

note: in some cases it may take a day or more for your DNS to update.

[farmboy]

Is it that searching for greenwidgets.com in Google gives you a search result that says "http: //greenwidgets.com is not found on the server" (rather than a snippet of text from your website)?

Or is it that if you type greenwidgets.com into the address bar and try to visit the site, it is not there?

It's the former, searching for greenwidgets.com in Google gives a search result that says "http: //greenwidgets.com is not found on the server" rather than a snippet of text from the site?

FarmBoy

[farmboy]

...are you saying you have created "A" records for greenwidgets.com and it still doesn't resolve?

I have created "A" records following the instructions provided by blogspot - the same instructions that someone linked to previously in this thread.

note: in some cases it may take a day or more for your DNS to update.

It's been about 10 days.


FarmBoy

[phranque]

is there a "Cached" link next to that search result?
perhaps that will give you some hints.
i am guessing the greenwidgets.com url was crawled and indexed before it was properly configured and has not been reindexed yet.

[Mega_B]

Well i have a blogspot blog and did not realise that you could add your own domain,so does it do away with the original bogger domain or how does it work ? So am i right in saying if you do transfer to a new domain will it keep all the original failties and features.Thanks

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Mega_B.

Well i have a blogspot blog and did not realise that you could add your own domain

They've had this for as long as I can remember. Check out the help for setup instructions: [google.com...]