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Picking the right blog name or domain name is a very important but simple process (even though there are various factors surrounding domain name selection) that often involves a mix of personal preferences and the construction of a public image for your website or business.
In addition, choosing a name for your blog might be quite as important a decision as naming your firstborn child because it is something to consider carefully and is therefore something for you to ponder in this post. Time to name your little bundle of joy.
The emphasis on a tight content focus is very important and your blog name can reflect your overall commitment to the field either through keyword relevance or effective branding. After choosing the right niche for your blog, you need to choose the right name for your blog.
Many articles about blog name or domain name selection primarily focus on several key points such as the length of the domain name, keywords vs. brand, suitable top level domains as well as multiple domain name registrations.
You can choose a blog name for SEO purposes, for branding purposes, or both. This isn’t always an easy decision but it is straight forward. Most experts these days recommend you choose a domain name for branding purposes.
To start off, there is something to ask yourself:
- Is the blog about you and whatever you are doing that day?
- What is the topic of the blog?
- An obvious starting point
- Most blog names reflect their topic.
- What do you hope to achieve with your blog?
- is it about an industry, having a hobby, is it about building your profile/expertise, is it about earning an income via ads, is it to support an existing business.
- Also probably worth asking yourself if you ever want to have other people participate in writing posts on this blog? If so I would avoid using anything with your name in as this might discourage other people from contributing.
- What style will it be?
- is it a blog with one or many authors? What length of posts will it have?
-What tone and voice will it be written in? - Will it be conversational, newsy, rant-is, and humorous?
- Who is the intended audience?
- Are you wanting to appeal to professionals, young people, cool people, geeks?
- Don’t forget also to ask yourself why would you want your own Domain Name?
Having your own domain name is desirable for many bloggers for numerous reasons. For a start if you’re wanting to build credibility and a sense of professionalism around your blog a domain that reflects this can help. Similarly a carefully selected domain name has the ability to enhance the branding of a product, service, business or even person. Domain purchases give the added bonus of email addresses with the same domain (adding to both professionalism and branding) and can enhance your Search Engine Ranking.
Just as there are many factors to consider in choosing the name of a person there are many implications of choosing names for a blog or website. What follows is a list of factors to keep in mind as you make the decision. Keep in mind that there are many theories about what is right and wrong in this area and that despite all the rules that people have there are some very successful sites that ignore them all! Also worth remembering is that personal taste comes into decisions like this - what’s a good name will mean different things to different people.
Note that before embarking on the following steps, you should already have chosen the appropriate niche for your blog.
If you are focusing on search traffic and multiple small blogs, go for keywords in the domain. If you are building a flagship or medium-sized blog, pick a domain name that is brandable, short and memorable.
If you’re using a keyword for your domain, come up with 10 different keyword variations. For example, if you are writing about movies, you could try movie love, movie reviews, movie fetish and moviejunkie.com. If you’re short of time, run your primary & secondary keywords through a domain name generator.
Use Urban Directory, online dictionary or even MS Words Thesaurus if you're going for branding because they offer multiple slang-based variations of your keyword that are often catchy, brand-able and search traffic friendly.
You want your blog name to be memorable. Try finding a name that is catchy. Once you find one you like, and then ask your friends if it sounds catchy BEFORE registering it. In short, when choosing a name for branding purposes, the key is to find a name that is memorable. Google, eBay, Yahoo, are all easy to remember names.
No matter how brilliant your thinking and your writing, blog experts have determined that the most important aspect of blogging may just be posting regularly and sticking with it. If you lose interest in your own name, you won’t continue. Pick something you love.
This can be a great thing, IF you’re willing to dedicate your whole blog to that topic; if you don’t want to stay on topic all the time, consider a more generic name. Forget about blog name related to events like Olympic! It only happens once in four years.
Visitors recognize you by your blog name, hence choose a unique name that is easy to remember. It need not necessarily relate to the products that you sell, but must leave an impression. For example, Amazon doesn't relate to books or any other products that they sell, but it sure conveys a certain image. But DID YOU KNOW that the Amazon is a big jungle in Brazil
Incidentally, if your company has a long name, consider shortening it for use as the name of the website. Remember that many successful brands are three-letter acronyms such as NBA, IBM, CNN and BBC.
Most single words in the English language have been taken. So often you will need to get a word that either made up (like Squidoo.com) or from another language (like Aykya.com, from Sanskrit). Sometimes a combination like BlogTactic.com also works.
Most Visitors are not excited by domain names that combine two or three common nouns. Its difficult to create an exciting brand out of these sort of names. Out of no choice, I pick two words for http://live-torrent.blogspot.com/
After coming up with a list of the keywords, confirm if the domain names are taken by online domain name checkers.
Domain names with underlines tend to look less professional and sound "cheap". Also, people are more likely to mistype your domain name when it includes underlines.
That’s a very good question. People often make some simple mistakes when choosing a domain name. Here are a few guidelines for picking a domain name.
> You want a domain name that people can spell and remember.
> Not too long, in fact, the shorter the better and more valuable.
> Try to pick a name that is only one or two words at the most.
> Keyword domains, such as fantasysoccer.com would be a great name for a fantasy soccer site or a brandable domain name. Brandable domain names, like Squidoo, Digg, etc. are basically made up names that become recognizable as your personal brand through use.
> Avoid hyphenated domain names. It decreases the value of the domain name and is harder to say and remember.
> Avoid trademark names at all cost. You most likely will just lose the domain name to the holder of the trademark. To find out if a name is trademarked, just go to TESS and start out with the new user form.
> Tips4U might sound like a good idea, but it’s not. Don’t use numbers for words and U for You, etc. You can use numbers for something like 9rules or 43things or 50babes, etc. but using 4 to mean for will decrease the value of your domain.
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