How to choose a blog name

There are three simple rules to follow when choosing a blog name:

1) It must describe your blog: it is probable that lots of people will see a link to your blog before having the chance to actually read it (in search engines, for instance). Guess what, if just by looking at the name they can figure what the blog is about they will be more likely to visit it.

2) It must be easy to remember: suppose your blog talks about cycling, fitness and health advice in general. Naming it “The Cycling, Fitness and General Health Advice Blog” would offer quite an exhaustive description of the blog, but would it also be easy to remember? Stick with simple names.

3) It must be equal to the domain name: this rule is often ignored by people, probably because finding a suitable domain that has not been registered yet is a difficult task. Still if your domain name does not match the blog name you will probably lose some readers along the way. When people visit your blog through a link they will just read the name of the blog. Should they decide to revisit the site a couple of days later they will just type that name followed by a dot com. If they do not find your blog once they hit enter they will just go somewhere else.

Daniel Scocco on November 4, 2006 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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12 Responses to “How to choose a blog name”

Fabio on December 7th, 2006 7:33 am

4th rule…to have a friend that suggest you the best choice!
Daniel on December 7th, 2006 8:12 am

Hey Fabio,

That is true, thanks for the help man
rapture on February 21st, 2007 5:58 pm

I’m having a terrible time picking a new domain name for my next blog project. It’s awful. Seriously. I stay up late at night thinking of names. Even crappy names. Even the crappy one’s are usually taken. What a mess!
Daniel on February 22nd, 2007 3:45 am

Rapture, I know what you mean. It is incredible how many weird domains are already registered.

Maybe you can check the article I wrote called “200 Prefixes and Suffixes for domain names”. Just grab your keywords and go trough the list adding the pices before and after that word, sooner or later you will find something.
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Blog Monies on March 22nd, 2008 3:53 am

* Will readers remember?
* Can readers tell what your blog is about?
* Think ahead - is it appropriate?
* Blog name must equal domain name!
* Brainstorm and take your time
paper shredder on July 24th, 2008 1:44 pm

How to choose a blog name
mugglewitch on September 20th, 2008 2:31 pm

hey, thanks… been creating blogs for months now and yet i always ended up deleting them once i see the name unfit or something.. i am about to delete my current blog now and Im so tired of doing this.. thanks for the advice…