blog.yourbrand.com
Point a subdomain at the hosted blog so every new article inherits the brand domain in search.
Custom domain for SEO blogs, with DNS on your host
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A typical setup is blog.example.com pointing at the Blogdat.ai hostname shown in settings.
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Site settings · Domain & DNS
Custom domain
Serve the blog on your own subdomain.
Type CNAME
Host blog.example.com
Target blogdat.ai
ConnectedRe-check DNS - 3
DNS can take time, and a half-propagated record will fail verification. Re-check from site settings instead of changing the record again out of impatience. Until verification succeeds, do not treat the custom domain as live. Publishing a month of posts to the platform host and then switching splits the URLs you just asked search engines to index. Wait, verify, then turn the cadence on. If verification keeps failing, the record is wrong or it has not propagated. Read the hostname you typed against the record you created before you generate more content.
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From then on, indexing and the sitemap use your hostname, not a platform subdomain.
How it works
A custom domain keeps the blog on your brand. Readers, search engines, and AI assistants see your host, not a generic platform subdomain. You choose the blog hostname, add the CNAME at your DNS provider, and verify ownership. The hosted blog is then served on that domain with HTTPS.
Ranking equity and trust sit on the host you control. Articles, canonical URLs, and indexing submissions should use that hostname. Moving later is harder than connecting the domain before the schedule has published dozens of posts. SSL and the verified DNS record are part of the setup, so the URL you submit is the URL that loads.
Each site can have its own domain. An agency can put client blogs on client hosts. A company can put the English blog and the Dutch blog on the hosts those markets already know.
Use cases
One domain per country site
Give the Dutch site a Dutch host and the English site an English host, each with its own language and cadence.
Replacing a neglected blog subdomain
Connect the domain, verify DNS, then let the schedule fill the host with indexable articles.
What is included
- CNAME setup
- Point the blog hostname at Blogdat.ai with the CNAME we give you.
- Subdomain choice
- Choose the public address, such as blog.example.com, without moving the main site.
- DNS verification
- Confirm the record resolves before the blog is served on your domain.
- SSL on your domain
- Serve the blog over HTTPS on the hostname readers and crawlers expect.
How it connects
Your own domain is the host that indexing, the SEO checker, uptime monitoring, and audience insights all read. The writer publishes to it. WordPress is a different delivery path when the canonical site is WordPress itself.
Search topics
- custom domain blog
- branded blog domain
- dns blogging
- seo blog domain
Put your blog on your own domain.
Connect a subdomain and keep publishing in blogdat.ai.
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