I found setting-up URL redirection very difficult, because it was very confusing.� but now that I know how it's done, I know that it is very easy.

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� � The first things you need to know are:

��� When you registered your domain name with Google, you actually registered it with GoDaddy through Google, as cooperating companies.� This affords you all the free GoogleApps perks, but the low-cost of GoDaddy's domain registration.� Your GoogleApps can be used to manage emails, calendars, and a host of other web-based services for yourself and your partners/users, and/OR you can build a basic site using GoogleSites, or whatever.� This is just a convenience.� Sort of like a Google "Behind-the-Site" Manager.

�� But if you want greater customization, you must login to the GoDaddy domain manager.� To do this, you need to find the Sign-in Name and Password for GoDaddy - WHICH IS NOT the same as your Google Login info.

�� URL redirection is a DNS setting that must be changed with GoDaddy, the host of your domain.� It allows you to use your new, simple, easy-to-remember domain/URL� (i.e. http://www.my_domain.com)� to direct your visitors to any other URL of your choice.� You might choose to do this if you have already built a site with another service provider, such as Apple's .Mac or MobileMe, your university, a free site such as Tripod or Geocities.... where the URL is quite long, and difficult to remember� (i.e.� http://www.tripod.com/my_name/index.html).� These long URLs, on top of being hard to remember, are also very impersonal and un-impressive.� It doesn't look very professional or polished, for instance, on a business card or a resume.

�� If this describes you, you may not want to RE-build your entire website with a new and confusing service provider, like Google.� Using URL re-direction, you don't have to.

You should already know how to login to your domain-related GoogleApps.� Go ahead and Login, then follow the following steps....

1.� click on "Domain Settings"� and then under it click "Domain Names"
Domain Settings > Domain names > Primary Domain : Advanced DNS Settings

2.� click the blue underlined "Advanced DNS Settings" to find your GoDaddy Sign-in name and password.

3.� takes you to ""Advanced DNS Settings"� >> where you can click "sign in to DNS Console"� which takes you directly to the GoDaddy Sign-in !!

4.� Login to GoDaddy's console using the sign-in name and password you JUST FOUND
(this opens your "Domain Manager" where your Google-registered domain name is listed, with any other domain names you may also own with GoDaddy.)

5.� click on your domain name (i.e. my_domain.com)
(this opens all settings and information regarding the DNS Settings of your domain.)

6.� Look for a heading "Forwarding"� and click under it on "not forwarding" to redirect to the URL of your choosing.

7.� type in the desired URL, and select additional settings - then click "save"
(I chose forwarding type 302: Temporary, so that search engines will treat my domain name as the permanent and primary URL.)



DONE ... and DONE!!

(processing your new forwarding settings should take more than 5 minutes, but less than 30 minutes.� resetting these changes, making any additional edits to the changes you just made, or testing these forwarding settings will require waiting for the process to complete.� if you wanna be totally safe, just log out and return the next day.)