Tips on choosing a prefect blog name

Admit it. Everyone want a perfectly good blog name. Naming your blog is like choosing a good name for a child. Choose wisely, choose carefully.

All the good blog names were taken

How do you go about selecting the perfect ideal name for your blog? Surprisingly complicated. Why? Well, most if not all the GOOD blog names were taken! Even goodblognames.wordpress.com or goodblognames.blogspot.com has been taken.

Names are tricky, along with choosing your niche a name can be one of the harder initial decisions. When you do find a name that you like then you have to go back to the drawing board because the perfect domain is taken.

There are still ways to get good blog name

You can only do this well after settling on a niche for your blog. Only personal blogs can really successfully start with the blog name and choose the subject matter later! First you have a think about what sort of blog you are writing. Take a look around at what sort of blogs are in your subscription list, here are some examples.

Personal Blog - These vary from "Obama Secret Blog" to completely random and odd names. Personal blogs are all about unique personality and the names are either unimaginatively the persons name or evoke the promise of interest and fun. Honestly, some personal blog name can be just awful.

Whimsical Blog - If the aim is to be funny then choosing a dry business like name is not going to work.

Product Blog and Business Blog - Some product and business blogs are straightforward, peddling their products and company services.


8 Naming Tips For A Good Blog Name

A really good name for your blog will be

1. Short
2. Relevant
3. Readable
4. Pronounceable
5. Spellable
6. Memorable
7. Concise
8. Unique

What you need to do to get a good blog names

Brainstorm - Look at what we have discussed so far and aim to invent more and more words as they spring to mind. Play with ideas. Combining words and creating new words, checking a thesaurus, getting the help of friends and family can all help.

Switch off your internal critic while you create. Jot down every name no matter how daft, at this point you are aiming for quantity, not quality!

Once you have a big long list go through and ditch the worst offenders then copy the remaining list and either choose or get friends to each score a top three. Those you take to the computer and check for domain name availability.

A word on search engines - While there may be a small benefit with search engines to have your domain use a keyword, I believe this is by far outweighed by the branding benefits of choosing a great name. If your best name does not contain your keywords do not sweat. I would much rather have a good name than a keyword-laden one.

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