I could almost cry with relief. Thank you so much for this video. I have been trying to verify my wordpress domain and assign it to my google site for around 4 weeks. I have tried and tried countless times and your video was FINALLY the method that worked. I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you!
Thanks Steegle! This is exactly whet I needed (no surprise, given your expertise in this area :) ) For anyone else who might be watching and querying a couple of the actions (because things have changed slightly in the last three years): - It's called Custom Domains in the Google Sites Settings now rather than Custom URLs - Synthetic Records either don't exist anymore or are really well hidden. I used the A record option in my Google Domains setup and it worked like a charm.
This is a very helpful video. I've never really done backend website setup like this before. Even though I paid $12 for help from another UA-cam content provider, this resource actually got my site up and running.
You don't even know how much I troubled myself over getting this to work, and this tutorial has helped me to get my custom URL up and running. Many, many, MANY thanks!
Hi, thanks for the video! Question though, at 4:38 you go to Settings, Custom URLs. Last week I was logged in as admin and saw Custom URLs in the list, now the last few days I've logged in still as admin and it is no longer there. Could you please advise on this? I am trying to get my site properly routed to custom domain.
Thank you for the video! I created a webpage with Google Sites and later purchased a personalised domain to link to it. Now, Google search still shows results for the Google site (with prefix sites.google...) and not for my own domain. Any idea on how to change this? I would like the personal domain to appear in Google searches.
The way to resolve it is to change the sites.google published URL to Google Search sees it as 404 and drops out of the index. Google Search will then start indexing at the custom URL as it will not see it as a duplicate of the sites.google URL.
3:30 having a nightmare trying to link my domain to my host (google sites). Three days and address is still not validated. Tried another domain with new code and not validated. I wish there was a helpline. The domain people were helpful but I cant get any info regarding the host site.
Thank you for the explanation. I am facing an issue where I have purchased a domain from Google Workspace and want to use it on my newly created Google Site. But the "Custom URLs" option is not even showing under the gearbox (settings) like @4:35 in the video. Can you please advise if I am missing any steps?
This only happens for one of two reasons: 1. You're using Google Workspace: if so then you add a custom URL in the Google Workspace admin panel - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You're not using Google Workspace and are not signed in to the site with the owner account (only the site owner can add a custom domain).
The two reasons this can happen are: 1. You are using G Suite so you configure the custom URL in the admin panel - we have separate instructions for this - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You are not using G Suite and aren't signed in with the site owner account.
Thank you! I found this was immensly helpful in troubleshooting issues with setting up my custom domain on my google site using a domain that is hosted through google domains. This was more helpful than anything I found on google's support website or other youtube videos!
@Brianna Steele yes it works with any domain provider that allows you to add the TXT and CNAME records: it's only the Synthetic Records part of the video that's specific to Google Domains.
@@Steegle hi, I followed the steps you showed me, but I just noticed, I get a different Failure message. In my case the error message reads "Could not find your domain. Confirm that you provided the correct domain for your property." I am sure that I am putting in the right domain name. Is there any fix for that?
Thank-you so very much for this video!! I have been tinkering for several months before stumbling on this awesome video!! One question however, in the settings tab, I do have the 'Custom URL' option. Have I made a change somewhere to turn that off?
I have a question about my use case. I have a fully developed public-facing site. It is hosted on Bluehost and the DNS provider is Go Daddy. I don't want to change the top-level / primary domain to go to a google site. I want to continue hosting as it is. What I am trying to do is to have the Google site just be a sub-domain for my currently hosted site on Bluehost. Is it possible to do this with just a sub-domain while maintaining my current site? Is this possible? If not, would I need to just transfer my domain to Google Domains? THANK YOU for all the help!
Yes this is exactly what these instructions are for, but instead of seeing the URL to www. use whatever subdomain you want to use. If you use Google Workspace then see the other video.
Hey amazing video. So at 6.24 you said that we wait till Google sites get the ssl certificate. Does that mean that i dont have to buy - get for free- a ssl certificate for the site? Does google do this itself?
Very straight forward, just have a question: When entering the address 'gns.googlehosted.com' is there a period after the '.com'? I saw that you didnt type the period but google domains automatically adds the period. I am using domain.com to configure my dns and keep getting errors. Thanks.
Just to make sure you're getting the right information it's gHs.googlehosted.com not gNs. The dot after .com is called the root domain and most DNS providers ignore it and not require you to add it in. The easiest way to determine if you need to enter it is if you look at any CNAMEs your DNS provider adds automatically or just get in touch with your domain provider directly or look at its help centre and you will find out there.
Hi, I have bought domain from google and have built site on google sites. However, i can only link up custom URL and not completely ccreate a site with my registered domain. The problem is that as soon as people type my domain and reach on my site, any click takes them to sites.google.com and my domain doesnt stay as URL. How to resolve this.?
If you have followed the instructions in this video and the custom URL still redirects this means your site is set to private. If your site is supposed to be private then this is working correctly; if your site is not meant to be private Have you checked that the sharing settings of the published version of the site are open to the public? See: www.steegle.com/google-sites/faq#h.p_Ab71ZA_H-m3I
hi, brilliant tutorial but my google site is different. @4.34 you opened settings menu, ok I have it , your menu has custom urls , my one, instead that, has banners option. I tried to find custom urls , nowhere to find it. any idea what wrong with my google site?
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show: 1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
Not sure if this was asked already but when I go back to the Google Website to put my URL in there is an error message saying "The URL is already in use by a Google service" Can you please assist from here??? Overall, video has been extremely helpful.
No, not if your site is in Google Workspace. If you decide to cancel Google Workspace copy the site to a personal Google/Gmail account and then use it from there. If you don't use a custom URL on the site then the sites.google.com published URL will change.
Hi sir, I am trying to point my 123-reg domain in to Google site, following instruction by google, but its always error, and i can't add my domain in to google.site, is their any specific video on this, please it will be great help.
We don't have a specific video for 123-reg (we can't afford to buy a domain from every domain provider) but the process is the same for any domain provider. What step do you get the error? What's your domain?
If you have all the DNS records in place and have added the custom URL to your site it's normally available within 30 minutes, but if you're tried visiting your site that day and only just changed the DNS records your computer router and ISP may cache the DNS records for upto 48 hours.
So helpful.! I already have a Google site With my previous url that Google sites gave me for free. I just bought my domain . I tried to merge the domain into my Google site, but it still looks the same as when I first created the free Google site. Am I doing something wrong ? Will it not change the url? I go to type in my domain and a Google error page comes up . Thanks in advance
Please Help, When I try to set up the custom URL at Google Sites, theres no "Custom URLs", what can I do ??? Please help I have already purchased and verified my domains at GoogleDomains, also, I have already claimed ownership of the domains in Google Search Console. I have Gsuite business
Can you please help! I have made every attempt from your instructions and others but it still in not working for me! I am using Google sites and my own Google Domain and I continue to get "invalid DNS" from the Google Sites. When I do a DNS lookup online, It finds the DNS Record but still not working on the google Site. Can you please help??
We cannot help without your sites.google.com URL and your domain if you use one. If you do not want your URLs to appear in search results please use a URL shortener, like bitly.com/
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show: 1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
Great Vid! Thank you very much. New to all of this so very, very helpful. One question for anyone out there: now that you have your own domain name, is it possible to add a front-end log in page to the site? Or are you still limited to what you can do in google Sites?
If you have a private site and need people to sign in the Custom URL will automatically redirect them to the Google Account sign in page. If you instead want people to arrive at a site at the Custom URL and then need to sign in you can only do this with two separate sites: 1. make a public site and apply the custom URL you want to it, then on that page make a login button or a screenshot of the Google Account sign in page that links to the private site using a link in this style: accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?continue=sites.google.com/view/someprivatesite Where sites.google.com/view/someprivatesite is the published URL of the ... 2. ... private site where you want people to sign in to
Google Sites doesn't support top level domains so you need to map www (or something else) and then you can redirect the top-level domain to the custom URL.
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show: 1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
I found your video super clear and thought that would do it for me, but sadly no 😞. I built my site in google sites and think I have replicated as per your instructions but other users still get an error 404 'site not found'
Have you cheked you've made your site public? See: www.steegle.com/google-sites/faq#h.p_Ab71ZA_H-m3I What is your sites.google published URL and your custom domain URL?
This was really helpful. There aren't any other videos that show how to do it as easy as this. But I have 1 question. How much time does it take to get registered?
Hi thanks so much for your video. I have a problem all well on the first part , but i can't in troduce the DNS custom resource records the 'www CNAME ghs.googlehosted , as when i add apprise a Name conflict in red under WWW box. Can i have any help please . Thanks i using a Google domain on a personal google account on Google Site.
If you have a name conflict in your DNS then you probably already have a www record. Google Domains provides support so you can get in touch with Google Domains directly.
Do I need to wait for the "up to 48 hours" until I can enter my custom URL at google sites? I just added it and I still cant put my own URL, I guess I have to wait for it to be valid?
Yes: just got to verify the domain again and you should get the same TXT. Google updates them every 24 hours if you have not managed to verify so you may need to get it again anyway.
@@Steegle The thing is, it verified automatically the first time because I'm using Google Domains. If I delete the property and try verifying again, it completely skips the TXT step and I don't know what verification code is being used.
@@treehousevideos why do you want the TXT record then? If your domain is verified you don't need it as the TXT record is only to verify the domain, but that's done automatically for you.
@@Steegle I wanted the TXT to see if I could set up everything manually, because for some strange reason, even though I let Google verify my domain automatically, trying to access my website still gives me error messages. :(
@@treehousevideos What are the error messages you are getting? The only way verification would help is if you're getting the message to say you need to verify the domain. If you are getting the message to say you need to verify then you can't have verified the domain with the same account that's the site owner.
I was looking into my own google sites, and there is no option to choose "Custom URL" in the settings now. Is there another way we could use our domain to customize the Google Site URL?
The two reasons this can happen are: 1. You are using G Suite so you configure the custom URL in the admin panel - we have separate instructions for this - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You are not using G Suite and aren't signed in with the site owner account.
@@Steegle Thank you SO much! I just found out that the original site owner DOES have the option! Once again thank you for this amazingly informative video!
How to change other url to Google brah like when I m going to my chrome it doesn't show the symbol of Google I have to type www.google.com..then it only shows plz help
wwizer service with GoDaddy works but my naked domain is taking about 30 seconds to load the first time I access it on any device or browser. The www version loads instantly. Any tips for speeding it up?
This may be just for you as you've probably visited the site and have the address cached on your computer: what's your domain and we can try from one of our devices.
When I go to my Google Sites page to try and publish, it says "Allow up to 48 hours for this site to also be viewable at..." It's been over 48 hrs, how can I be sure that anything is happening and I didn't just mess up in a step? I've gone to the actual link that I plan to publish, but I get a 404 error.
Have you checked that the sharing settings of the published version of the site are open to the public? Why does my site ask people to sign in or appear as 404 not found? ( www.steegle.com/google-sites/faq?Publishing&#h.p_Ab71ZA_H-m3I )
@@Steegle Yes, those settings are public. When I click publish, it still says “Allow up to 48 hours for this site to be viewable at...” and the publish button is gray. There is a section for a web address above that that begins in sites.google.com/. If I were to fill that in, it would allow me to publish my site, but if I did that, would my custom URL still work, or just the URL beginning in “sites.Google.com”?
@@jordynbennett3311 if you have not published your site to a sites.google.com URL your site is unpublished and not available at your custom URL. The custom URL is an addition to the site: the site has to be published to a sites.google.com URL but you never need to give that to anyone. If you're seeing the publish button grey that means you have not entered something for the sites.google.com URL and you need to to publish, then your custom URL should start working. ALL sites have a sites.google.com URL, the custom URL is another URL you can access the site by.
Hey guys thanks for this, do you have any advice on how to swap assignment of URL's between 2 google sites? meaning i have created a new site on google and just cant seem to find a way to get that Url live! any help would be great. domain provide: godaddy.
The video shows how to use a domain as a custom URL, so just to refer to the video. Make sure you have set your site to public if that's what you're trying to achieve.
So confused. I am a personal account owner. I have verified that I am the owner of the account. And there is no option at all for me to add a custom domain in sites... Not under settings, not under more. Anyone else?
Did you wait the 30-60 minutes for Google to configure everything at the back end? If so we cannot help without your sites.google.com URL and your domain.
No the custom URL option has not been removed. There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show: 1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
Fistly, thank you for the video, it was extremely useful to setup the google site with the custom URL. Now, I am facing another problem, I cannot get google to index the website. I believe it is due to the fact that it reads it as a redirect and not as a real website. Is there a way to solve this problem? Thanks in advance
If you have configured your custom URL using this method it's not a redirect (a redirect would be when someone goes to your custom URL it moves the viewer to the sites.google.com URL and does not stay at the custom URL). If you have only just configured your custom URL then it can takes a couple of weeks to start indexing: if you can mention your domain and your sites.google.com URL we can see if it's working as it should be. If you have not configured your custom URL correctly and you have redirected it then you have not followed the instructions in this video.
@@Steegle thanks for the quick reply! I have configured it through DNS as you described in the video, my concern was that Google might see it as a redirect. In any case, thanks for clarifying, I will wait a little longer to see if it will finally be indexed. In the meantime, keep up the good work and thanks again, your guide was much clearer than the one Google itself provides!
Please sir make video how to create a post in Google site(not page), and how to type meta descriptions and title for Google search.... i search every where but i don't get the answer... please sir answer this one.
The new version of Google Sites does not offer any kind of news, announcements or blog pages. Please make sure you send feedback to Google ( www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/send-feedback ) to make your feature requests and bug reports. You also cannot edit any meta tags either: be aware that meta tags are not using in any way to rank your site in search.
You need to verify the domain with the same account that's the site owner. You also need to make sure you verify the domain using the DNS method as no other verification method is valid for Google Sites.
@@Steegle yes I Already add in the DNS domain And All is Verified TXT, Cname And Google Search console. But when I want asign in Google site ulr custom they said this url Already in use by another Google service.
If you don't use Google Domains then you need to either use whatever method your domain provider gives you to redirect your naked domain or add an A record of @ (or your naked domain) that points to 174.129.25.170 (a free service from wwwizer.com)
@@Steegle My friend who has no idea what he's doing created a google sites page, then asked me to deal with the txt record and that when great, but he bought is from from google & misspelled the url & registered it & then went & corrected it with the right spelling with a new url but within the same google sites account, & now (just like in your video at 4:33, the misspelled url is in it and we can't get rid of it. I told him he should have created a whole new google account. Can this be fixed?
@@Dillinger86 If you have a domain listed on the site you want to remove simply use the Delete option (looks like a Trash Can / Rubbish Bin) on the right-hand side of the domain on the Custom domains option in settings.
@@Steegle There are no options in Custom domains settings. Clicking next just shows the misspelled URL, there are no options anywhere in that window. We are super stuck.. well he is.. I know how to do this in AWS but not in google, google is so limited UGH...
@@Steegle I found that delete option, I've been helping him, I'm on Anydesk right now on his PC trying to fix this.. I set up my own website through G-Suite & AWS, it's a little different, you used ghs.googlehosted.com the record that's given for his is different, his is longer and at the end it says dv.googlehosted.com.
Nice vid, my google site is linked to my custom domain, but it doesn't work unless you use www. before the URL. GoDaddy tell me that my DNS records are all fine, but there's obviously an issue somewhere. Does anyone know why this could be? Help much appreciated. Thanks
We demonstrate in the video how to redirect the naked domain (no www) to your www address using the Google Domains method: since you're not using Google Domains you need to use whatever method GoDaddy provides or alternatively add an A record of @ (or your naked domain) that points to 174.129.25.170 (a free service from wwwizer.com) - this is fully explained in our written instructions at www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/assign-custom-url-domain-personal#h.p_4zQAylBMrixu
You have to buy a domain, there's no such thing as a free domain, but if you buy your domain from the right place there should be no further cost. Google Domain, as demonstrated, give you the top level domain redirection for both http and https at no cost but many other domain providers will charge for an SSL hosting for a https redirection.
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show: 1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite 2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
We can't provide videos on how to do this with every domain provider as we'd need to buy a domain from every provider and there are thousands. All you need to do is add the TXT verification record and the www CNAME record, as demonstrated in the video, however freenom needs you to do this. Freenom should have instructions on how to add DNS records so just look how to add the records we show in the video.
I have done all this exactly and still google sites doesnt recognize that my domain has been verified. I have verified it successfully already many times. Can somebody help?
i have made my website really nice in google site but i have not published yet as I m not getting how to attach terms n private policy form n also this custom url thing rest everything is all ready. all need to know should follow exctly showed in this video n what is that ghs.googlehosted.com?
@@Steegle Hi, do you know how to add the CNAME (ghs.googlehosted.com), I use godaddy and my custom website is www.eegsmp.com/ whenever I try to add the cname it gives me this message "There was an error processing your request. Please try again. If this issue continues, contact support."
I have a problem, i hope you can help me with it. So when i search my domain i have to use: www.wealthb.com if i don't use www. it shows Not Secure on the top and No website. i see adds. Can you please help me. Thank you
You need to redirect the naked domain: if you use Google Domains then follow the steps we demonstrate at 6:28 and if you do NOT use Google Domains follow the steps at 8:25 - maybe you didn't watch that far into the video?
Nice tutorial!! I have some troubles with hostinger; I don't know how to delete www. when you search the website, I mean, search it without add www. Could u help me? I'd really appreciate your help PS: Sorry for my bad English!
Google Sites does not support naked domains and you have to use a subdomain, like www, as the custom URL for your site. We explain in the video that you need to redirect your naked domain to your www subdomain and show you how you can do this with Google Domains (see 6:40). If hostinger does not do something similar then you can add an A record of @ (or your naked domain) that points to 174.129.25.170 (a free service from wwwizer.com) - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/assign-custom-url-domain-personal#h.p_4zQAylBMrixu
Thanks for the video, I do not have my own domain, and have made my webpage using google sites and am finding it difficult to verify it using meta tags or HTML file. Could you please make a video explaining how to do the same, thanks again
Google Sites does not offer HTML file hosting or meta tags because the whole point of Google Sites is so you don't have to worry about these things. If you want to edit HTML and tags then Google offers the Google Cloud Platform with various hosting options.
@@kavi_geet9959 If you have already added your custom URL then your domain is already verified: don't verify your sites.google.com address in Search Console as you only want your custom URL indexed.
I seem to be stuck at the very last step, I've been waiting for a couple hours now but when I go to my site (www.projectplayalot.ca) I still see a "This site can’t be reached" error, any ideas?
Hello. So I bought my domain name through Google Domains. I created my website using Google Sites and assigned my custom URL to the Google Site. My website doesn't display or come up when I navigate to it. I have followed the steps to confirm ownership of my website through the Google Search Console, but I'm confused as to the Domain DNS Setup to connect my Google Site with my custom domain. Can anybody help me please? I have a non G-Suite account (Personal).
I could almost cry with relief. Thank you so much for this video. I have been trying to verify my wordpress domain and assign it to my google site for around 4 weeks. I have tried and tried countless times and your video was FINALLY the method that worked. I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
I know this video is a few years old, but this has been OLD but GOLD in helping me finally connect my domain. THANKS!
Thanks Steegle! This is exactly whet I needed (no surprise, given your expertise in this area :) ) For anyone else who might be watching and querying a couple of the actions (because things have changed slightly in the last three years):
- It's called Custom Domains in the Google Sites Settings now rather than Custom URLs
- Synthetic Records either don't exist anymore or are really well hidden. I used the A record option in my Google Domains setup and it worked like a charm.
Hi I need more help please
This is a very helpful video. I've never really done backend website setup like this before. Even though I paid $12 for help from another UA-cam content provider, this resource actually got my site up and running.
You don't even know how much I troubled myself over getting this to work, and this tutorial has helped me to get my custom URL up and running. Many, many, MANY thanks!
We're really pleased it helped and glad your site is up and running.
For some reason after multiple video and articles this wasn't clicking. You cleared it up for me and now I'm verified. Thanks!
Glad we could help.
Thank you so much!!!! I have spent countless hours searching and reading how to's and pulling my hair out and this was PERFECT! THANK YOU!!!
Glad we could help!
Hi, thanks for the video! Question though, at 4:38 you go to Settings, Custom URLs. Last week I was logged in as admin and saw Custom URLs in the list, now the last few days I've logged in still as admin and it is no longer there. Could you please advise on this? I am trying to get my site properly routed to custom domain.
This suggests that you're not signed in with the owner account the second time around: only the owner can add a custom domain.
Thanks! Great help and really well explained. I was having trouble for the longest time but this really cleared it up!
You're welcome!
I was stuck for DAYSS!!!! Thank you for this video!
Glad we could help!
Thank you for the video! I created a webpage with Google Sites and later purchased a personalised domain to link to it. Now, Google search still shows results for the Google site (with prefix sites.google...) and not for my own domain. Any idea on how to change this? I would like the personal domain to appear in Google searches.
same issue. did you resolve it?
The way to resolve it is to change the sites.google published URL to Google Search sees it as 404 and drops out of the index. Google Search will then start indexing at the custom URL as it will not see it as a duplicate of the sites.google URL.
Incredibly helpful video! I was searching for exactly this!
AFTER 3 DAYS OF SEARCH I FOUND THIS VIDEO. THANK YOU.
Glad you found it. If you're looking for instructions on How to Use Google Sites then start here:
www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to
3:30 having a nightmare trying to link my domain to my host (google sites). Three days and address is still not validated. Tried another domain with new code and not validated. I wish there was a helpline. The domain people were helpful but I cant get any info regarding the host site.
We'r ehoping by now you're sorted, if not let us know your domain.
Thank you for the explanation. I am facing an issue where I have purchased a domain from Google Workspace and want to use it on my newly created Google Site. But the "Custom URLs" option is not even showing under the gearbox (settings) like @4:35 in the video.
Can you please advise if I am missing any steps?
This only happens for one of two reasons:
1. You're using Google Workspace: if so then you add a custom URL in the Google Workspace admin panel - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You're not using Google Workspace and are not signed in to the site with the owner account (only the site owner can add a custom domain).
Wow, thanks so much. Really helped me out!
Glad it helped!
I can't do the step (min. 4:41) it say's this URL is already in use by another Google service.
You need to find out which Google Service the URL is pointing to (old Google Sites or Blogger for instance) and remove the URL from that service.
Synthetic records not showing when I go into DNS & when site published, it doesn't show "Custom URLs" option
You use the Domain forward option now.
Struggled to do this for ages before I found your video! Brilliant thank you very much.😀
Glad it helped
Your video is very clear and to the point - and caused my frustration to end. It works! Thank you.
That's great to hear: we're glad our video helped.
Thank God I found you today!! You saved my life! Thank you so very much :)
You're very welcome!
How long does it usually take to be able to access the website with your domain? Mine seems to be taking forever
I do not see custom URL updated under setting in the google site. what could be the reason?
The two reasons this can happen are:
1. You are using G Suite so you configure the custom URL in the admin panel - we have separate instructions for this - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You are not using G Suite and aren't signed in with the site owner account.
Thank you! I found this was immensly helpful in troubleshooting issues with setting up my custom domain on my google site using a domain that is hosted through google domains. This was more helpful than anything I found on google's support website or other youtube videos!
Glad it helped!
@Brianna Steele yes it works with any domain provider that allows you to add the TXT and CNAME records: it's only the Synthetic Records part of the video that's specific to Google Domains.
Must say THANK YOU because your video guided me so smoothly to assign the domain I wanted ! SO MUCH VALUE !
Great to hear! Thank you for your kind comments.
Man, I was stuck in this for days. Thanks man. Keep up the good work.
Glad we could help!
@@Steegle hi, I followed the steps you showed me, but I just noticed, I get a different Failure message. In my case the error message reads "Could not find your domain. Confirm that you provided the correct domain for your property." I am sure that I am putting in the right domain name. Is there any fix for that?
@@hat_os what's the domain you've purchased?
@@Steegle nevermind my registrat took 72hrs to propagate my entered DNS. Finally it verified :D
Thank-you so very much for this video!! I have been tinkering for several months before stumbling on this awesome video!! One question however, in the settings tab, I do have the 'Custom URL' option. Have I made a change somewhere to turn that off?
That only happens if you're using Google Workspace or aren't signed in as the site owner.
I have a question about my use case. I have a fully developed public-facing site. It is hosted on Bluehost and the DNS provider is Go Daddy. I don't want to change the top-level / primary domain to go to a google site. I want to continue hosting as it is. What I am trying to do is to have the Google site just be a sub-domain for my currently hosted site on Bluehost. Is it possible to do this with just a sub-domain while maintaining my current site? Is this possible? If not, would I need to just transfer my domain to Google Domains? THANK YOU for all the help!
Yes this is exactly what these instructions are for, but instead of seeing the URL to www. use whatever subdomain you want to use. If you use Google Workspace then see the other video.
Thank you..clear instructions, great visuals, and explanations on why must do each step.
Glad it was helpful!
Hey amazing video.
So at 6.24 you said that we wait till Google sites get the ssl certificate.
Does that mean that i dont have to buy - get for free- a ssl certificate for the site? Does google do this itself?
No you don't need to buy an SSL certificate it's included
Very straight forward, just have a question: When entering the address 'gns.googlehosted.com' is there a period after the '.com'? I saw that you didnt type the period but google domains automatically adds the period. I am using domain.com to configure my dns and keep getting errors. Thanks.
Just to make sure you're getting the right information it's gHs.googlehosted.com not gNs. The dot after .com is called the root domain and most DNS providers ignore it and not require you to add it in. The easiest way to determine if you need to enter it is if you look at any CNAMEs your DNS provider adds automatically or just get in touch with your domain provider directly or look at its help centre and you will find out there.
Hi, I have bought domain from google and have built site on google sites. However, i can only link up custom URL and not completely ccreate a site with my registered domain. The problem is that as soon as people type my domain and reach on my site, any click takes them to sites.google.com and my domain doesnt stay as URL. How to resolve this.?
If you have followed the instructions in this video and the custom URL still redirects this means your site is set to private. If your site is supposed to be private then this is working correctly; if your site is not meant to be private Have you checked that the sharing settings of the published version of the site are open to the public?
See: www.steegle.com/google-sites/faq#h.p_Ab71ZA_H-m3I
Thank you so much!!! This is EXACTLY what i needed!! keep up the great work!
You're welcome!
hi, brilliant tutorial but my google site is different. @4.34 you opened settings menu, ok I have it , your menu has custom urls , my one, instead that, has banners option. I tried to find custom urls , nowhere to find it. any idea what wrong with my google site?
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show:
1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
Thank you for the video. Can this sites.google custom website be monetized by google Adsense? is it allowed.. pls reply
Google Sites does not support AdSense (support for AdSense was removed many years ago).
Hello i bought a google domain. And its been 48 hrs and still not showing but I can’t see any indication of text for dns . Can you help ?
If you're still having an issue what's your domain?
Thank you so much!!! Perfect video this year.
Glad it was helpful!
Not sure if this was asked already but when I go back to the Google Website to put my URL in there is an error message saying "The URL is already in use by a Google service" Can you please assist from here??? Overall, video has been extremely helpful.
Have out added the DNS record to your domain? If so when you visit wherever it takes you then you know which service it's used by.
Life saver! Much appreciate the super clear explanation!
Glad it helped!
Wow, Incredible help ! thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
Hi, if I dont subscribe monthly on google workspace, can I still access my website? Now I'm using free trial
No, not if your site is in Google Workspace. If you decide to cancel Google Workspace copy the site to a personal Google/Gmail account and then use it from there. If you don't use a custom URL on the site then the sites.google.com published URL will change.
Hi sir, I am trying to point my 123-reg domain in to Google site, following instruction by google, but its always error, and i can't add my domain in to google.site, is their any specific video on this, please it will be great help.
We don't have a specific video for 123-reg (we can't afford to buy a domain from every domain provider) but the process is the same for any domain provider. What step do you get the error? What's your domain?
Thanks, but I wonder how long it takes until your domain can be accessed?
If you have all the DNS records in place and have added the custom URL to your site it's normally available within 30 minutes, but if you're tried visiting your site that day and only just changed the DNS records your computer router and ISP may cache the DNS records for upto 48 hours.
So helpful.! I already have a Google site With my previous url that Google sites gave me for free. I just bought my domain . I tried to merge the domain into my Google site, but it still looks the same as when I first created the free Google site. Am I doing something wrong ? Will it not change the url? I go to type in my domain and a Google error page comes up . Thanks in advance
Disregard I got it!!
Glad you got there!
Please Help, When I try to set up the custom URL at Google Sites, theres no "Custom URLs", what can I do ??? Please help
I have already purchased and verified my domains at GoogleDomains, also, I have already claimed ownership of the domains in Google Search Console. I have Gsuite business
As mentioned in the video description if you use Google Workspace see this video: ua-cam.com/video/S6THjFuRPM0/v-deo.html
Can you please help! I have made every attempt from your instructions and others but it still in not working for me! I am using Google sites and my own Google Domain and I continue to get "invalid DNS" from the Google Sites. When I do a DNS lookup online, It finds the DNS Record but still not working on the google Site. Can you please help??
We cannot help without your sites.google.com URL and your domain if you use one. If you do not want your URLs to appear in search results please use a URL shortener, like bitly.com/
The thing is that (custom Url ) feature is not available, is not showing as per your video.
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show:
1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
Great Vid! Thank you very much. New to all of this so very, very helpful. One question for anyone out there: now that you have your own domain name, is it possible to add a front-end log in page to the site? Or are you still limited to what you can do in google Sites?
If you have a private site and need people to sign in the Custom URL will automatically redirect them to the Google Account sign in page. If you instead want people to arrive at a site at the Custom URL and then need to sign in you can only do this with two separate sites:
1. make a public site and apply the custom URL you want to it, then on that page make a login button or a screenshot of the Google Account sign in page that links to the private site using a link in this style:
accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?continue=sites.google.com/view/someprivatesite
Where sites.google.com/view/someprivatesite is the published URL of the ...
2. ... private site where you want people to sign in to
@@Steegle Thank you Steegle.com. I'll give it a try.
on the screen where we have to enter our domain name ...we cant add for an example : example.co.za ..or is it fine if we do so since we cant add www ?
Google Sites doesn't support top level domains so you need to map www (or something else) and then you can redirect the top-level domain to the custom URL.
Thank you so much, bro. You saved my life with this video
Glad we could help.
is this only when you purchased your domain?
You need to buy a domain to use as a custom URL if that's what you're asking.
Can you please help me. for some reason, i can't see "CUSTOM URL" when i go to setting. All the other options are there.
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show:
1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
@@Steegle thank you
Thank uuu thank u! this helped me so much! :)
Glad it helped!
I found your video super clear and thought that would do it for me, but sadly no 😞. I built my site in google sites and think I have replicated as per your instructions but other users still get an error 404 'site not found'
Have you cheked you've made your site public? See: www.steegle.com/google-sites/faq#h.p_Ab71ZA_H-m3I
What is your sites.google published URL and your custom domain URL?
This was really helpful. There aren't any other videos that show how to do it as easy as this. But I have 1 question. How much time does it take to get registered?
Normally within an hour.
Hi thanks so much for your video. I have a problem all well on the first part , but i can't in troduce the DNS custom resource records the 'www CNAME ghs.googlehosted , as when i add apprise a Name conflict in red under WWW box. Can i have any help please . Thanks i using a Google domain on a personal google account on Google Site.
If you have a name conflict in your DNS then you probably already have a www record. Google Domains provides support so you can get in touch with Google Domains directly.
Do I need to wait for the "up to 48 hours" until I can enter my custom URL at google sites? I just added it and I still cant put my own URL, I guess I have to wait for it to be valid?
No as soon as you have added the CNAME record you can add the the custom URL to the site.
@@Steegle Ah thanks! I actually had to publish my google sites first then my custom URL worked!
Is there a way to get the TXT record again to copy and paste? I can't find any way to find it again on Google Search Console.
Yes: just got to verify the domain again and you should get the same TXT. Google updates them every 24 hours if you have not managed to verify so you may need to get it again anyway.
@@Steegle The thing is, it verified automatically the first time because I'm using Google Domains. If I delete the property and try verifying again, it completely skips the TXT step and I don't know what verification code is being used.
@@treehousevideos why do you want the TXT record then? If your domain is verified you don't need it as the TXT record is only to verify the domain, but that's done automatically for you.
@@Steegle I wanted the TXT to see if I could set up everything manually, because for some strange reason, even though I let Google verify my domain automatically, trying to access my website still gives me error messages. :(
@@treehousevideos What are the error messages you are getting? The only way verification would help is if you're getting the message to say you need to verify the domain. If you are getting the message to say you need to verify then you can't have verified the domain with the same account that's the site owner.
I was looking into my own google sites, and there is no option to choose "Custom URL" in the settings now. Is there another way we could use our domain to customize the Google Site URL?
The two reasons this can happen are:
1. You are using G Suite so you configure the custom URL in the admin panel - we have separate instructions for this - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You are not using G Suite and aren't signed in with the site owner account.
@@Steegle Thank you SO much! I just found out that the original site owner DOES have the option! Once again thank you for this amazingly informative video!
thank you!
You're welcome!
How to change other url to Google brah like when I m going to my chrome it doesn't show the symbol of Google I have to type www.google.com..then it only shows plz help
wwizer service with GoDaddy works but my naked domain is taking about 30 seconds to load the first time I access it on any device or browser. The www version loads instantly. Any tips for speeding it up?
This may be just for you as you've probably visited the site and have the address cached on your computer: what's your domain and we can try from one of our devices.
@@Steegle hannahwhiteoak.me
When I go to my Google Sites page to try and publish, it says "Allow up to 48 hours for this site to also be viewable at..." It's been over 48 hrs, how can I be sure that anything is happening and I didn't just mess up in a step? I've gone to the actual link that I plan to publish, but I get a 404 error.
Have you checked that the sharing settings of the published version of the site are open to the public?
Why does my site ask people to sign in or appear as 404 not found? ( www.steegle.com/google-sites/faq?Publishing&#h.p_Ab71ZA_H-m3I )
@@Steegle Yes, those settings are public. When I click publish, it still says “Allow up to 48 hours for this site to be viewable at...” and the publish button is gray. There is a section for a web address above that that begins in sites.google.com/. If I were to fill that in, it would allow me to publish my site, but if I did that, would my custom URL still work, or just the URL beginning in “sites.Google.com”?
@@jordynbennett3311 if you have not published your site to a sites.google.com URL your site is unpublished and not available at your custom URL. The custom URL is an addition to the site: the site has to be published to a sites.google.com URL but you never need to give that to anyone. If you're seeing the publish button grey that means you have not entered something for the sites.google.com URL and you need to to publish, then your custom URL should start working. ALL sites have a sites.google.com URL, the custom URL is another URL you can access the site by.
Very clear explanation. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Hey guys thanks for this, do you have any advice on how to swap assignment of URL's between 2 google sites? meaning i have created a new site on google and just cant seem to find a way to get that Url live! any help would be great. domain provide: godaddy.
The video shows how to use a domain as a custom URL, so just to refer to the video. Make sure you have set your site to public if that's what you're trying to achieve.
what to do now in 2024 when google domains are redirect to square space?
So confused. I am a personal account owner. I have verified that I am the owner of the account. And there is no option at all for me to add a custom domain in sites... Not under settings, not under more. Anyone else?
What's your sites.google.com published URL?
I have done as like u but saying server cant reach what to do
Did you wait the 30-60 minutes for Google to configure everything at the back end? If so we cannot help without your sites.google.com URL and your domain.
it's been take away the option of custom URLs, there is now an alternative?
No the custom URL option has not been removed. There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show:
1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
Fistly, thank you for the video, it was extremely useful to setup the google site with the custom URL. Now, I am facing another problem, I cannot get google to index the website. I believe it is due to the fact that it reads it as a redirect and not as a real website. Is there a way to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance
If you have configured your custom URL using this method it's not a redirect (a redirect would be when someone goes to your custom URL it moves the viewer to the sites.google.com URL and does not stay at the custom URL). If you have only just configured your custom URL then it can takes a couple of weeks to start indexing: if you can mention your domain and your sites.google.com URL we can see if it's working as it should be.
If you have not configured your custom URL correctly and you have redirected it then you have not followed the instructions in this video.
@@Steegle thanks for the quick reply! I have configured it through DNS as you described in the video, my concern was that Google might see it as a redirect. In any case, thanks for clarifying, I will wait a little longer to see if it will finally be indexed. In the meantime, keep up the good work and thanks again, your guide was much clearer than the one Google itself provides!
Thank you very much!! Great video, I appreciate it
Glad it helped!
Appreciate it.It was really helpful.
You're welcome!
Thanks for you video, Easy configuration and explicated.
Glad you liked it!
Please sir make video how to create a post in Google site(not page), and how to type meta descriptions and title for Google search.... i search every where but i don't get the answer... please sir answer this one.
The new version of Google Sites does not offer any kind of news, announcements or blog pages. Please make sure you send feedback to Google ( www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/send-feedback ) to make your feature requests and bug reports.
You also cannot edit any meta tags either: be aware that meta tags are not using in any way to rank your site in search.
For some reason Google search console says my domain is verified but my Google site custom url is saying this domain is not yet verified?
You need to verify the domain with the same account that's the site owner. You also need to make sure you verify the domain using the DNS method as no other verification method is valid for Google Sites.
@@Steegle Got it, Thank you! First time building sites for a client and had to transfer ownership of the Google Site.
Whenever I put in the www in the custom resource records it says that there was a name conflict?
That means you already have www in use with your domain provider: you may want to get some support from your domain provider.
How if this url Already in use by another Google service ??? Please help
We don't and can't know why your URL is already in use: have you added the DNS record to your domain and then seen where it takes you?
@@Steegle yes I Already add in the DNS domain And All is Verified TXT, Cname And Google Search console. But when I want asign in Google site ulr custom they said this url Already in use by another Google service.
My G-suite says it doesn't have any domains yet. Also how come I have this "Redirection of your naked domain" thing?
If you don't use Google Domains then you need to either use whatever method your domain provider gives you to redirect your naked domain or add an A record of @ (or your naked domain) that points to 174.129.25.170 (a free service from wwwizer.com)
@@Steegle My friend who has no idea what he's doing created a google sites page, then asked me to deal with the txt record and that when great, but he bought is from from google & misspelled the url & registered it & then went & corrected it with the right spelling with a new url but within the same google sites account, & now (just like in your video at 4:33, the misspelled url is in it and we can't get rid of it. I told him he should have created a whole new google account. Can this be fixed?
@@Dillinger86 If you have a domain listed on the site you want to remove simply use the Delete option (looks like a Trash Can / Rubbish Bin) on the right-hand side of the domain on the Custom domains option in settings.
@@Steegle There are no options in Custom domains settings. Clicking next just shows the misspelled URL, there are no options anywhere in that window. We are super stuck.. well he is.. I know how to do this in AWS but not in google, google is so limited UGH...
@@Steegle I found that delete option, I've been helping him, I'm on Anydesk right now on his PC trying to fix this.. I set up my own website through G-Suite & AWS, it's a little different, you used ghs.googlehosted.com the record that's given for his is different, his is longer and at the end it says dv.googlehosted.com.
it says "name conflict" at 5:20 please help
That suggests you already have a www record, so edit that one instead or delete it and make another.
@@Steegle it worked thanks man
Nice vid, my google site is linked to my custom domain, but it doesn't work unless you use www. before the URL.
GoDaddy tell me that my DNS records are all fine, but there's obviously an issue somewhere. Does anyone know why this could be? Help much appreciated. Thanks
We demonstrate in the video how to redirect the naked domain (no www) to your www address using the Google Domains method: since you're not using Google Domains you need to use whatever method GoDaddy provides or alternatively add an A record of @ (or your naked domain) that points to 174.129.25.170 (a free service from wwwizer.com) - this is fully explained in our written instructions at www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/assign-custom-url-domain-personal#h.p_4zQAylBMrixu
Thank you so much!! this worked perfectly
Glad it helped!
HELP ! i did everything u did it said its veryfied now and google sites let it go threw but now its saying dns is invalid why would that be
It normally says invalid DNS because the DNS is invalid: What's the custom URL you are trying to add?
Does it cost money to have a domain name?
Yes. In Google Domains it costs like $12 a year with a .com domain.
Yes as already pointed out there's no such thing as a free domain.
I dont see the custom urls option. Help!
That means you're either not signed in as the owner or you use G Suite.
You are a life saver. Thank you
Happy to help!
Is everything you demonstrated in the video FREE? Does any step of this cost money? (original domain, hosting, etc.)
You have to buy a domain, there's no such thing as a free domain, but if you buy your domain from the right place there should be no further cost. Google Domain, as demonstrated, give you the top level domain redirection for both http and https at no cost but many other domain providers will charge for an SSL hosting for a https redirection.
there are no more custom url in setting T__T..need help sir..
There are only two reasons that the custom URL option does not show:
1. You're using G Suite to make your Google Site with and if that's the case you add the custom URL through the G Suite admin panel - see www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/map-domain-web-address-g-suite
2. You're using a personal Google Account (or a Gmail account) to create your Google Site with and you're not signed in as the owner - only the owner can add a custom URL.
@@Steegle thanks a lot,meaning if i dont have G Suite,i cannot create a custom url for my google site?
Can you tell me how to do this with freenom
We can't provide videos on how to do this with every domain provider as we'd need to buy a domain from every provider and there are thousands. All you need to do is add the TXT verification record and the www CNAME record, as demonstrated in the video, however freenom needs you to do this. Freenom should have instructions on how to add DNS records so just look how to add the records we show in the video.
I have done all this exactly and still google sites doesnt recognize that my domain has been verified. I have verified it successfully already many times. Can somebody help?
I don't have an option for synthetic records
Google Domains has changed considerable since recording and this feature is now found under the "Domain forward" section.
i have made my website really nice in google site but i have not published yet as I m not getting how to attach terms n private policy form n also this custom url thing rest everything is all ready. all need to know should follow exctly showed in this video n what is that ghs.googlehosted.com?
Yes follow the steps in this video to make a custom URL.
Hi! Thanks for the video, it works!! I haven't really tried going on it, but its now saying, sites.google.com refused to connect. Can you help?
Without knowing your custom URL there's no way we can help.
@@Steegle Hi, do you know how to add the CNAME (ghs.googlehosted.com), I use godaddy and my custom website is www.eegsmp.com/ whenever I try to add the cname it gives me this message "There was an error processing your request. Please try again. If this issue continues, contact support."
@@ayxnzr as the message suggests you need to get support from your domain provider: we can;t help with that as we're not your domain provider.
I have a problem, i hope you can help me with it. So when i search my domain i have to use: www.wealthb.com if i don't use www. it shows Not Secure on the top and No website. i see adds. Can you please help me. Thank you
You need to redirect the naked domain: if you use Google Domains then follow the steps we demonstrate at 6:28 and if you do NOT use Google Domains follow the steps at 8:25 - maybe you didn't watch that far into the video?
This was perfect thank you
Glad we could help.
Nice tutorial!! I have some troubles with hostinger; I don't know how to delete www. when you search the website, I mean, search it without add www. Could u help me? I'd really appreciate your help
PS: Sorry for my bad English!
Google Sites does not support naked domains and you have to use a subdomain, like www, as the custom URL for your site. We explain in the video that you need to redirect your naked domain to your www subdomain and show you how you can do this with Google Domains (see 6:40). If hostinger does not do something similar then you can add an A record of @ (or your naked domain) that points to 174.129.25.170 (a free service from wwwizer.com) - see: www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/assign-custom-url-domain-personal#h.p_4zQAylBMrixu
@@Steegle Thank so much!!
@@arielvilche8477 You're welcome
Thanks for the video, I do not have my own domain, and have made my webpage using google sites and am finding it difficult to verify it using meta tags or HTML file. Could you please make a video explaining how to do the same, thanks again
Google Sites does not offer HTML file hosting or meta tags because the whole point of Google Sites is so you don't have to worry about these things. If you want to edit HTML and tags then Google offers the Google Cloud Platform with various hosting options.
Thanks so much for your response. I found another one of your videos which explains using google analytics to verify. Thanks 🙏🏻
@@kavi_geet9959 If you have already added your custom URL then your domain is already verified: don't verify your sites.google.com address in Search Console as you only want your custom URL indexed.
I seem to be stuck at the very last step, I've been waiting for a couple hours now but when I go to my site (www.projectplayalot.ca) I still see a "This site can’t be reached" error, any ideas?
We've just visited your custom URL and it was working for us.
You are a hero!
Glad we can help!
Hello. So I bought my domain name through Google Domains. I created my website using Google Sites and assigned my custom URL to the Google Site. My website doesn't display or come up when I navigate to it. I have followed the steps to confirm ownership of my website through the Google Search Console, but I'm confused as to the Domain DNS Setup to connect my Google Site with my custom domain. Can anybody help me please? I have a non G-Suite account (Personal).
Watch the video from 5:20 onwards.
Do that and your site will be OK
brother.... now im in your suitation... did you solve it.... What should i do now?
for the last part, what id should i use? someone pls help me out
For the last part of what? What ID are you referring to?