Setting up a Google Talk for your domain account is a simple process that can help you communicate with your customers and partners more easily. You’ll need to create a new Google Talk account and select the type of account you want to use. Once you’ve set up your account, you can start using it to communicate with your customers and partners. To set up a Google Talk for your domain account, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your Google Account and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen. This will take you to the Accounts page.
  2. On the Accounts page, click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen again and select a domain name from the list that appears. For example, if you’re working with an online store, you would select “www.”
  3. Click on OK to finish setting up your new Google Talk account. You’ll now be able to use it to communicate with your customers and partners!

Open up Pidgin and choose Accounts –> Manage Accounts.

Then click the Add button.

Then you’ll want to enter in your username as the beginning of your email address, and the Domain as the part after the @ symbol. For instance, mine is geek@howtogeek.com, so I’m using geek as the username and howtogeek.com as the Domain.

Then flip over to the Advanced tab, and enter talk.google.com as the Connect server. You can pretty much leave the other settings alone if you want.

At this point you can click the Save button, and then you should be able to enable the account via the Accounts menu.