Google Custom Domain Headaches
Ack, it's been while since I've posted, I know, but what luck, i have something relevant to actually report.
After initially setting up my wife's blog, tucsonquerido.blogspot.com to use a custom GoDaddy domain back in June, I found what everyone had seemed to find out; it's not perfect. The details are at The Real Blogger Status - Beta: Google Custom Domain - Case Study # I tried Google's way initially, but that left tucsonquerido.com users out in the cold, and after all, www is deprecated. So after a bit of tweaking, I got just plain tucsonquerido.com to work with Blogger by using the IP address associated with ghs.google.com. But I was back at square one. Old school web users could not use www.tucsonquerido.com. Still, google usually gave them a search page instead. I left it like this for a long time and google indexed it accordingly.
I decided recently to see if Google had fixed this, and they did! Well, sort of. They added a checkbox that flip-flops between "forward www traffic to tucsonquerido.com" and vice versa if your publishing url already started with www.
"Great," I thought, "I'll just change everything back and flip this bit!" So I did.
48 hours later, it still didn't seem to work. I followed the directions above and tried deleting the A record, but that still didn't seem to work. I called GoDaddy and they didn't quite know what to do either, but they did suggest at least using their A record IP.
However, I seem to have stumbled upon a possible fix. Before this recent mess, I simply changed the existing A record to point to the ip address for ghs.google.com. Like I mentioned above, this worked for a long time, I just left out the www people. So in order to get my wife's search links back, I changed it back, but this time, added a CNAME record www that points to @, or the root, as well as leaving the the checkbox checked in the publishing settings.
So far, it seems to have worked. But give it 48 hours...
After initially setting up my wife's blog, tucsonquerido.blogspot.com to use a custom GoDaddy domain back in June, I found what everyone had seemed to find out; it's not perfect. The details are at The Real Blogger Status - Beta: Google Custom Domain - Case Study # I tried Google's way initially, but that left tucsonquerido.com users out in the cold, and after all, www is deprecated. So after a bit of tweaking, I got just plain tucsonquerido.com to work with Blogger by using the IP address associated with ghs.google.com. But I was back at square one. Old school web users could not use www.tucsonquerido.com. Still, google usually gave them a search page instead. I left it like this for a long time and google indexed it accordingly.
I decided recently to see if Google had fixed this, and they did! Well, sort of. They added a checkbox that flip-flops between "forward www traffic to tucsonquerido.com" and vice versa if your publishing url already started with www.
"Great," I thought, "I'll just change everything back and flip this bit!" So I did.
48 hours later, it still didn't seem to work. I followed the directions above and tried deleting the A record, but that still didn't seem to work. I called GoDaddy and they didn't quite know what to do either, but they did suggest at least using their A record IP.
However, I seem to have stumbled upon a possible fix. Before this recent mess, I simply changed the existing A record to point to the ip address for ghs.google.com. Like I mentioned above, this worked for a long time, I just left out the www people. So in order to get my wife's search links back, I changed it back, but this time, added a CNAME record www that points to @, or the root, as well as leaving the the checkbox checked in the publishing settings.
So far, it seems to have worked. But give it 48 hours...
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