How to run your free hosted site( point a custom .com.np domain to blogspot )

On my last post you learnt about regestering your own site for free in .com.np.After getting approval you need to follow these steps to get your site runing for free.
1)Visit Here and you need to sign up for free.








2) Now after getting signed up,go to domain menu


3) Now click on add domain and add your site url

4)Now leave clone as optional and enter your site name keeping shared state to private and submit it









5)It will show status as broken,wait for sometime until the status is changed to active

 6)Now again go to domain and click on manage on your newly added site

7)Now you will face something like this

8)Select and delete all except any one you choose,you dont need them
9)Now after deleting any five among them click on add button.
10)Now delete destination and input
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
As your destination leaving other constant.One is shown here,repeat same process and add other reamaning destination too

10) Now the last thing to do is to configure your blog to use your custom domain. Go to the advance settings of your blog and check the "publishing" section. Add a custom domain, fill it with www.yourdomain.com and try to save it. First it will throw an error with instruction of two C-Name type records that you should create. Again go to your free dns provider and from sub-domains, create two subdomains of type C-Name with the fields that google had provided you(ghs.google.com with subdomain www, *.googlehosted.com with subdomain provided by google). Save all the changes. It may take one to a few days for the DNS information to propogate to the system.
Here is final look and i have replaced yousitename.com with these one for ease of understanding

Now, try again to save the settings in the blogger.

Now in a few days time, you should be able to access your blog by typing www.yourdomain.com.np in the browsers url. But it will not work, if you just type yourdomain.com.np on the browser. You have to do one extra setting. Go to the blogger-> settings and under the PUBLISHING section click on "EDIT". You will see a checkbox which is an option to redirect url's like yourdomain.com.np to www.yourdomain.com.np. Check the checkbox and save it. Now you could access your blog with the url yourdomain.com.np .

Congratulation, you have made it.

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How to run your free hosted site( point a custom .com.np domain to blogspot )

Hey are you willing your .np domain to get ported in Google Blogger? If yes; then this article may be helpful to you. Let me first say few words about .np domain type. It is the ccTLD(Country Code Top Level Domain) of Nepal which is something like .com.np, .org.np, .info.np, .net.np, .gov.np,...,etc.in structure. A more exhaustive list can be found in the registrars website.

Mercantile Communication Pvt. Ltd. is the only registrar of .np domain. It is free of cost(until they provide it) for life time. As it is ccTLD it is good for Search Engine Optimization SEO. Some of the giant search engine like Google, Yahoo and Bing provide the regional targeting service which makes your blog at the first of the search result. It doesn't mean your page must be at the top of search engine result as it is always said "Content is the King". You must focus on the content type as it should be unique and keyword optimized. I'll give you some useful tips for SEO on my other post. Lets get to the point. This is about .np domain.  So hope you got your .np domain till now. If you don't go grab it before some other takes it.

Now the Google Blogger. It is the blog hosting service provided by Google Inc. It has easy to use interface, high up-time, fastest blogging, search engine friendly, highly secured, un-metered space, un-metered bandwidth and lots more. Advantage of blogging in Blogger is that you don't have to pay a single penny to Google and in return you can earn some money with  Google Adsense and other advertising company like Bidvertiser, BuysellAds, Amazon, and thousand others. As Blogger belongs to Google any change in Google Search Engine algorithm won't make you code longer because Blogger does it. I don't say Blogger is the perfect platform for blogging because there are lots of other free hosting service and are even trusted. You can even use WordPress, Dotclear, b2Evolution, TextPattern, ..., etc. But is up-to your choice if you go for free or the paid. So what I call is

Blogger + .com.np =  Free

Step1:  Log-in to you domain control panel and change the name server as listed belowPrimary Name Server: NS1.AFRAID.ORG IP Address: 50.23.197.95Secondary Name Server: NS2.AFRAID.ORG IP Address: 174.37.196.55 Tertiary Name Server: NS3.AFRAID.ORG IP Address: 72.20.15.62 Note: This dns server belongs to Afraid.Org which is free DNS service provider and reliable too.
Step 2:  Now visit freedns.afraid.org and click on Sign Up! and fill the form. Activate your account with the link mailed on your email account. So describing Afraid.Org( I will abbreviate it as AO) it is the free DNS hosting let you fully manage your own domain. It is very very simple to use and work quite well. Once you are done then you are ready to start. Step 3: On you AO account click on "Domains" on the left sidebar. You will find "Add Domain" on the page somewhere. This is the place where you are going to add your domain to work. So click on "Add Domain" and you will be redirected to their domain manager. Step 4: On AO domain manager type your registered .np domain. If you want to share your domain in public then keep it public else select the Private options from the drop down menu. I prefer to keep it private. Now submit the form. You will be redirected to Addition Success! page with the message 'Domain yourdomain.com.np has been added to the system.'. You have to wait for few days until your domain propagates to AO DNS Nameserver. It may take 3 working days or more than a week sometime.

Step 5: Click on "Domains" and on the "Manage" beside your Domain name. You will notice the 6 subdomains with your domain out of which 5 are "Not Yet Configured." and 1 with the MX record. This is the place where we are now going to configure the Google Blogger A and CNAME Records. On this page you already got the naked domain "yourdomain.com.np" un-configured. So click on the unconfigured domain name. Now you are editing yourdomain.com.np which is A type. On destination type "216.239.32.21". Leave other field as it is and click on Save button.

Step 6: Now on the "Subdomains" page click on the [ add ] link to add remaining A name and CNAME records. Let me help you for one and you can do the remaining repeated process. I am going to show you one of the A record addition. So it is A record type is again going to be A on the Type field. For the subdomain field type enter your registered .np domain like the one yourdomain.com.np is used in this tutorial. For Domain field it should be the same registered .np domain. On the destination you must enter the another IP value "216.239.34.21". Previously we used "216.239.32.21" while editing the sub-domain and now it "216.239.34.21". Hope you are not confused. TTL stands for Time To Live which is not mandatory to fill but if you like to then you can make it to 1D which is one day. I prefer not to use it because it allocate the default value if left unchanged. We are not going to use any Wildcard here so leave it unchecked. Now Save the form. Similarly you can add other A and CNAME records with these values Type: A Subdomain: yourdomain.com.np Destination: 216.239.36.21 Type: A Subdomain: yourdomain.com.np Destination: 216.239.38.21 Type: CNAME Subdomain: www Domain: yourdomain.com.np Destination: ghs.google.com Hope you have made it successfully. If yes then working with AO is over. Now we are moving to Blogger to make this final setup. Step 7: Open the Google Blogger site. Sign in with your Google account or you can Sign up new here. On the blogger dashboard you will find the New Blog button on the left side bar. Click it and a popup appears on your screen. See on the screenshot below.

Fill the form with Title and Address. When you see the blue square box with Right tick on it, that means the blog address is available else try with some other address. Select the Template available on the pane(You can change it later). Finally click on the Create Blog button to make it your own. Step 8:  When you are into the Blogger Home click on the More options button next to your blog title and go to the Settings option.

On the Setting page you will find the Publishing options where your Blog Address appears. Below that you will find "+ Add a custom domain" . Click it!

Step 9: Now you are about to complete the process. After clicking "+ Add a custom domain" message says if you want to buy a domain for your blog. Below that you can see "Already own a domain? Switch to advanced settings". Click on "Switch to advanced settings" .  On the "Advanced setting" enter your registered .np domain like "www.yourname.com.np". Don't forget to prefix www before your domain name and Save the form.

Step 10: Click on the "New post" button to start blogging. That is it.

If you like this post then please share it with your friends. Please don't try to publish this post on some other site. It is the hard work of author. You can take it as a source of reference. Hope you enjoyed this post. If I got something wrong here then please let me know it. Keep visiting my blog to learn new tips and tricks, reviews, hot updates, etc. Finally wish you a Happy Blogging.
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How To Add Read More Link On Blogger

Hy readers! As we  already known about the awesome built in features of blogger and the cool facility it provides to its users. Today we shall be discussing one of those features and that is Jump Break.

 




Simply in a blog whole the content of posts appear . In such cases it would make the loading of the blog much slower and it is a great thing to be worried. But blogger has solved this solution by creating this feature so that wherever the jump break tag is kept, up to that much part of an post will appear. This way visitors should click on the read more link and the full content would now appear. See how cool this feature is. It is very easy to add indeed. Just follow some steps below;

• Lets consider that you are editing a post and you're going to publish it. 
• Before publishing see your menu bar of the post editor. There you will find a page like icon on the right side. 
•  Click your cursor in the post upto where you would like your post to be displayed in homepage. Then click on that page icon and a horizontal line would appear. It is the jump break. 
• Now publish your post and preview your homepage. You would see your post containing read more.                                                                                          Happy Blogging,leave a comment

 

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