Hey everyone, this is Scott from sert media.com and in this video I'm gonna be
showing you how to set up a DKIM record and an SPF record for GSuite so I use
GSuite and I'm using it for an alias for thedailyexposition.com another
website that I own and I haven't gotten around to sending up the SPF and the
DKIM records I'm gonna show you how to do that in this video the first thing I
am going to be doing those I'm gonna delete all my old records that I had
imported from siteground that way just have a nice clean start so the first
thing you need to obviously make sure is that you set up the MX records like you
were required to set up GSuite if you have no idea how to set up GSuite
there will be another video on that this is a little bit more advanced topic that
assumes that you've already set that up so an SPF and DKIM record help
authenticate your emails to prevent them from coming back as spam so the first
thing that you need to do to create an SPF record is there's a nice little
documentation that shows you how to do that for your website mean you're gonna
have to create a txt record my DNS is hosted through CloudFlare if you're
using a different host you may have a different set up so what you have is you
set up a txt record the name will be the @ symbol which is just the root and
then you're gonna copy the record that they provide to you and the value is v
equals SPF includes SPF google.com and the sign for all that gets part of give
the first part time this helps prevent your emails from being spoofed it's
fairly easily it's fairly easily done to fake sending emails from your domain if
you've ever been hacked you know what that's like
where spammers will pretend to be your website and send out an email from let's
say you're on your host and you have two emails contact and info but they're
sending up fake emails from john@example.com
you have no idea who John is but John Doe over here sent thousands of spam
emails to not only your customers but whoever else he could get his emails
sent to so you can easily add an SPF record which should help protect
yourself from getting added to blacklist and to help authenticate emails DKIM is
the authentication part and we're going to do that next
after you add this record you just go ahead and click
Save and there we go to authenticate your email you're gonna need to go into
your GSuite account you're gonna go under apps then GSuite settings for
Gmail and you're gonna click on authenticate email for your domains
select the domain that you're trying to add a DKIM record for in this case it's
thedailyexposition.com currently the status is not authenticating email
because there has been no record that has been created you're gonna click
generate new record you can set it up to either 1024 or 2048 the key bit length
I'm going to do it for 2048 just so that way it's a longer key length this is an
example your key record that you get will be very different and then what
you're going to do is you're going to first copy this section right here this
is the txt record name so when you come back to CloudFlare your name will be
google._domainkey that's the same for every website you're
then gonna copy the txt record that it provides to you after you copy the value
you're gonna paste it into the content make sure there's no extra spaces at the
end if there's an extra space it will fail so I deleted the extra line that
was added from the copy you can leave the top one and you should be able to
hit save now that you've hit save you need to go back into your account
and you need to click start authentication what this will do is it
will tell it that the email authentication was not verified and it
may take up to 48 hours for GSuite to recognize that the record has been added
check back in 2 days or check back the next day typically as when I noticed
that it gets authenticated and then you should get a status that says the emails
are being authenticated through G suite if you have any questions about DKIM
records or SPF records please feel free to ask in the comments below remember if
you're using something like office 365 or cPanel they each have their own means
of generating dkim records and they have their own SPF records set up this only
works for G suite otherwise thank you so much for watching and goodbye