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    Steps to create a static Site using Godaddy and Google Cloud Storage

Create a static html site


Can use this boilerplate to modify: http://www.initializr.com/
Make all your subpages and make sure to link them
Check your index.html works

Buy yourself a domain


Go to http://www.godaddy.com
Login to your account or create one
Search for a domain and pay for it
On godaddy click on your name on the topright
Click on manage domains
Click on the website domain you want to change
Go to the second tab, which is the DNS Zone file
Hold other steps till you setup the google cloud storage

Get yourself google analytics


go to https://analytics.google.com
in the Admin tab, click on add a property
add property corresponding to your site: www.your-domain-name.com
take the website tracking script and make sure to update all your static html pages with this tracking script
It should look something like this:

<script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-12346789-1', 'auto');
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Get yourself a google storage bucket


Go to https://console.cloud.google.com
Login and setup your account
Click on the top left and scroll down till you hit Storage
Create a bucket called www.your-domain-name.com

Verify domain name belongs to you


At this point, you will have to verify that you-domain-name.com belongs to you.
Go to the following site
https://www.google.com/webmasters/verification/home?hl=en
Click on add a property
type out the url and click continue
You should be able to do this simply enough if you are on godaddy
For other DNS hosts, you will be asked to upload some files to your domain.
Once verified continue with the next steps

Continue to google storage bucket


Upload all your files to the bucket
Make sure all folders etc are uploaded also
Go back to the main page. On the right side of the bucket you created click on options
Edit website config
Add index.html and 404.html
Go inside bucket. Click on select all files.
Click Share Publicly on the top list of options
Do this for all folders inside

Back to godaddy.com


Go into DNS Zone File for your domain
Click add record
Create a CNAME record pointing to c.storage.googleapis.com
Go to the setting page
Add a forwarding rule
Choose a 301 forwarding without masks to www.your-domain-name.com
You are done
Add forwarding rules form different domains you have bought into the main DNS host ex: my-other-domainname.com forwarding to www.your-domain-name.com.


Check Now Should be all done!