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Hi there:
I have a pretty successful blog but when I set up that domain name I wasn't really thinking it would take off and I named it in Spanish. Now the name of my blog is in English and all content is in English.
I bought the domain name through blogger.com
So now, I want to buy a domain name through, for example, godaddy.com but in English so it can match the actual blog name.
How can I do it so that when someone types in the NEW domain name it lands them on my current blog?
I don't want to "move" my blog to my NEW domain (if that's even possible) just want to buy an additional domain and be able to have both go to my current blog.
If the domain is registered to you (e.g. yourdomain.com) it's easily done. You have this domain registered to yourself through registrar?
If so log into the control panel and see if they have an option for domain forwarding. If they don't have option for doamin forwarding transfer the domain to a registrar that does.
In any event you'll need to maintain control of the domain for as long as you want to redirect. Once you lose it you also lose all options for redirecting.
You can do that and there is other options like but you need hosting for that to work, generally speaking you'll only want to do that if you need to redirect specific parts of a site. The domain forwarding or redirecting is generally an option on the domain registration so there is no additional cost involved.
Hi there:
I have a pretty successful blog but when I set up that domain name I wasn't really thinking it would take off and I named it in Spanish. Now the name of my blog is in English and all content is in English.
I bought the domain name through blogger.com
So now, I want to buy a domain name through, for example, godaddy.com but in English so it can match the actual blog name.
How can I do it so that when someone types in the NEW domain name it lands them on my current blog?
I don't want to "move" my blog to my NEW domain (if that's even possible) just want to buy an additional domain and be able to have both go to my current blog.
Thanks in advance guys!
upload an index.html page that has coded html redirect....
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Optional page text here.
</BODY>
</HTML>
It should take about 5 minutes for you to do. Good luck.
The meta redirect using HTML also requires you have hosting services, it's really the "poor mans" redirect and should be used as last resort or in special situations where it's more suitable. It will work but really the wrong tool for the job.
The meta redirect using HTML also requires you have hosting services, it's really the "poor mans" redirect and should be used as last resort or in special situations where it's more suitable. It will work but really the wrong tool for the job.
That method and the .htaccess method work well if you want to use the redirected domain for stealthy hosting, but not have it be a presence of its own.
For example, you could have redirected.com point to here.com when visitors land on the top level of the domain. If you do the redirect at the registrar, then you can't host anything under that domain.
If you do the redirect on the host, you can put a web page at redirected.com/page.html and it will show up. If you do the redirect at the registrar, it will send visitors to here.com/page.html or the top level of here.com.
If I'm understanding his post correctly they don't want to host anything on the new domain. He's going to buy a new domain presumably for advertising purposes and to insure that if someone types the name of his blog into the address bar they are redirected properly to original domain.
If you don't need hosting there is no sense paying $5 a month for hosting services just for redirection when that service can be provided by the registrar.
If I'm understanding his post correctly they don't want to host anything on the new domain. He's going to buy a new domain presumably for advertising purposes and to insure that if someone types the name of his blog into the address bar they are redirected properly to original domain.
If you don't need hosting there is no sense paying $5 a month for hosting services just for redirection when that service can be provided by the registrar.
You are correct. Currently the blog is hosted by blogger.com but I paid for a unique url.
So if I go back to blogger and sign up for another unique url with the new domain name I can just add html code like the one mentioned above by 20yearsinbranson correct?
So if I go back to blogger and sign up for another unique url with the new domain name I can just add html code like the one mentioned above by 20yearsinbranson correct?
Just register the new domain with any registrar that has domain forwarding (they might call it redirecting). It will cost you about 10 bucks a year, in the control pnel will be an option where you want to redirect it too.
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