Hi. I'm Gary Eckstein from OrganicWeb.com.au and I'm a Mailchimp Pro partner. In this tutorial
I'm going to go through how we can authenticate our domain that we send emails from in Mailchimp
how we can authenticate that domain in SiteGround so if you use SiteGround for your web hosting
and you use Mailchimp to send email marketing then this is the tutorial for you I've done tutorials
in the past on how to authenticate your domain in bluehost GoDaddy CPanel and so on and they've been
very popular so I hope that this will help you if you do use SiteGround we'll go across to Mailchimp
the advantage of authenticating our domain
in Mailchimp is that when we send from that domain send email marketing from that
domain from Mailchimp there's less like with less chance rather that the emails
will go into the spam folder or will go into the promotions folder in Gmail so that's why it's
worthwhile authenticating your domain in Mailchimp to see our domains that we can send from the
easiest way really is to click website to the left hand side of the screen and then click domains
this is my demo account and you can see that these three domains are domains that I can send from in
Mailchimp in other words Gary Gary's class dot com Gary organic web dot com dot a u and so on
if you want to add a new domain you might have purchased
two Mailchimp to be able to send from that email in Mailchimp you quite simply click verify email
enter the import your email address enter your email address into that field
click send verification email Mailchimp will send you an email which you can just click on
you'll then be able to send from that domain your name at domain name from Mailchimp
some of those emails may however get into spam go to the spam folder the junk folder so what we
want to do is we want to get to authenticated we want to authenticate our domain so when you first
add your domain and Mailchimp you'll have blue verified to the right we want to get to green
authenticated to get to green authenticated if you use SiteGround we need to add what are called some
CNAME records or domain records uh to SiteGround so I'm going to be going backwards and forwards a
little bit but it'll make sense so first off let's go to SiteGround I'm in SiteGround we want to
click site tools for the domain that you've added to Mailchimp that you want to authenticate so
once this loads up we click on domain to the left hand side of the screen
you then need to click DNS zone editor so I click DNS zone editor
and our various records appear but don't worry too much what's showing at the moment what we're
wanting to do is add some CNAME records so if I just click on CNAME under create new record
if I click CNAME you'll see there's various details needed let's go back to Mailchimp
to get those records we need to add we click authenticate to the right hand side of the
screen next to the domain that or to which you you're amending records in SiteGround so I click
authenticate there's a bit of stuff going on here but Mailchimp is basically saying create
two records two c name records what I do here if you use SiteGround is copy this first part
before your domain name so in other words here it would be k2._domainkey so copy that bit copy it
come back to SiteGround and merely paste it in the field there we go
go back to Mailchimp copy that little bit underneath so
dkim2.mcsv.net just copy that and in the resolves2
we'll just paste it into there don't worry about TTL or time to live that's fine we click create
going back to Mailchimp Mailchimp said look you need to also create two records
so we've done the k2 so let's do the k3 so again we copy that bit before the dot
and your domain name so k3._domainkey copy that bit come back to SiteGround and I'll
just click back because we've already created that CNAME record so we still
under CNAME under create new record still CNAME so I'll just paste that information into there
come back to Mailchimp so it's a bit of going backwards and forwards now copy this dkim3 etc
just copy that come back paste it in click create and there we go I'm just going to click back
so what we've done now is we we added these two CNAME records and you can see them there
and these will propagate around the web and it can take a little while for them to propagate
let's go back to Mailchimp
I click authenticate domain and Mailchimp now goes and checks that we've actually added those records
as you can see here Mailchimp says it can take 24 to 48 hours and Mailchimp will just keep checking
and authenticate it I'll just click cancel for now so you can go away and and do what you want to if
after 48 hours you aren't seeing uh green authenticated next your domain again just click
authenticate again and authenticate domain and Mailchimp will go and check once more
thanks for joining me and and this is the way we authenticate our domain so less emails
will go to the spam folder and the Gmail promotions folder for your subscribers
if you use SiteGround that is thanks for joining me my name is Gary Eckstein from OrganicWeb.com.au