How to Host Free Domain on Blogger
Add the Domain Name to Your Blogger Site
Go to the Settings → Basic of your blog and click on setup a third-party URL for your blog under Publishing →Blog address.
Click on “Set up a third-party URL for your blog”
Type in the domain name that we registered with Freenom (prefix it with www.), and click Save. Then you will encounter an error like below. This occurs because we haven’t set up DNS for our domain yet. If someone types in our custom domain, they should be redirected to our blogger blog. For that to happen, we need to add DNS records at the domain name provider’s site.
Manage Your Domain’s DNS Settings
Go to My Domains under Services dropdown and click on the Manage domain button, next to the domain name you registered.
Click on Manage Freenom DNS. Add two CNAME records as shown below. You can see that the name and target fields of the records are the strings that we were provided within the error message by Blogger. Don’t forget to select Type as CNAME, otherwise, it won’t work.
Now we have finished setting up DNS for our domain name. It takes some time to take effect. In my case, it was for about an hour. Therefore, you have to wait for some time before completing the final steps of this process on your Blogger blog.
Final Work
Since we have setup DNS by now, go to Publishing under Settings → Basic of your blog, type the domain name prefixed with www, and click Save. It should be saved without giving any error.
If it’s not, please wait some more time as DNS settings may not have been taken effect yet.
There’s an additional step to complete. Some users of your blog might type your blog URL without the “www” part, for example, typing ayomitedomain.ml instead of www.ayomitedomain.ml. Therefore, you need to set up a redirect from ayomitedomain.ml to ayomite.betterdomain.ml. To do that, click on Edit next to your new domain name and check the checkbox in the resulting form, as shown in the following images
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