Using Google Apps To Create Emails For Your Domain Name

<p>It is common to own at least one domain name (if not, more..) if you are providing a service or selling products online. Most Webmasters would love to have an email for their domain name (something like kc@my-domain.com) because this will also help to increase the trust of the people who have contacted you. <p> The concern is that setting up an email for a new domain name may not be straightforward to most people. In addition, you can only access emails through the computer that you have installed the email client application (Outlook, Thunderbird etc). The good news is I am going to share with you one solution that will resolve all these concerns in this post. <p> Steps to set up your domain email: <p> So once you are convinced that Google Apps is the way to go, refer to the following steps to set up: <p> 1. First thing first, you need to register for a new domain name! You can go to GoDaddy and register one .com for less than $10 per year. With the domain name registered, go here and sign up for Google Apps. <p> 2. The second thing is to verify that the domain name is yours =) This step is necessary as Google will authenticate you as the owner of the domain. The verification will be completed once you upload a HTML file to the domain. You can log in to the Google Apps account you signed up in step one to find the HTML file. <p> 3. The third step is to create the user accounts for your users. This can simply be done by going to your account and select the Create Users link. Note that the Username that you create is the email id that people use to send you emails. For example, my username is KC456, then my email address for that account will be KC456@my-domain.com. <p> 4. After you have set up the email account, it is now time to go to your server MX Records to change the pointing so that all emails will be diverted to your newly created email. <p> 5. You can now access your email through the URL: http://mail.google.com/a/my-domain.com. Replace the domain name with yours and you should be able to see the email login box =) <p> That?s all! You are done! Things may not be so easy if you are doing some migration from your old emails to new ones. Hence, Google Apps team has taken a lot of effort to present you a comprehensive guide that covers almost everything you want to do with the Google Apps! <p> You can click on the link below to view the full version of this guide.The author is the owner of the popular business blog, <a href="http://www.websproutconsulting.com/blog">Business Sense</a>. He also wrote a full version of the Google Apps set up guide over at <a href="http://www.websproutconsulting.com/blog/using-google-apps-for-your-domain-name-email/">his blog here</a>. <p> <p></p>