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Instant HubSpot Dashboard Customization

By : Deepan Siddhu Nagarajan
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Instant HubSpot Dashboard Customization

By: Deepan Siddhu Nagarajan

Overview of this book

Previously, users had to rely on different documents and methodologies to derive efficient results when it came to lead nurturing and sale closures. HubSpot enables users to access all of this in one place and create automated detailed reports, saving a lot of time, money, and resources. Easy step-by-step procedures start you off with attracting more visitors to your website, managing your campaigns, and converting them into sales. This practical guide is packed with end-to-end topics that are required for a user to customize their HubSpot dashboard with ease. The book covers the entire range of topics about HubSpot, right from adding multiple users to your HubSpot account to connecting your domain to HubSpot, managing your e-mail marketing campaigns, monitoring competition, applying SEO to your website, and so on. This book will provide you with all the support and methodology you need through quick tasks that will transform your online marketing experience.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Connecting to HubSpot (Intermediate)


The objective of connecting a domain to HubSpot is very similar to the objective of an user to go for a HubSpot account which is to manage many at one place. A website plays a major role in being an identity for one's business and it should be given the utmost priority in terms of having quality content, adding additional pages for indexing, appropriate call-to-actions, and so on.

How to do it...

If you've created landing pages through your HubSpot account, here's how you can connect your domain name to your HubSpot-hosted landing page:

  1. Go to your home page. Click on Content and then on Content Settings from the drop-down menu as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Click on Domain Manager under Content Optimization System Tools located on the left-hand side of your browser and then click on Connect another HubSpot COS Domain in the newly opened window. You will get a screen similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Enter the domain that you want to connect with HubSpot under the section Your Domain. You also have to provide HubSpot with your objective for connecting this domain. Is it only for landing pages? Or, is it for a blog or an entire website?

  4. Click on the Use for Content Publishing (email, landing pages) option for landing pages, and click on Use for Classic CMS (blog, full website pages) if you want to connect your complete website. In case you are hosting your complete website through HubSpot, you will have to use a different subdomain name like we've used in the previous screenshot, hub.digitometry.com, where hub should be replaced with your subdomain name and digitometry should be replaced with your main domain name. Select one of the options according to your objective. If you want to connect the complete website, refer to the following screenshot:

  5. Once you have selected your option, click on Connect domain. You will get a screen similar to the following screenshot (if you've selected the Use for Classic CMS option in your previous step):

  6. Copy the CNAME (the zone marked with red in the preceding screenshot).

  7. If your domain is not hosted by HubSpot, you'll need to log in to your registrar and point the CNAME record to the one you've copied in the previous step. Now, get back to your HubSpot account and you will see the WAITING message removed from the Status column in somewhere between 30 minutes to 48 hours.