Well I was just joking, domain is important but not to the extend that it will decide
your success of your blogging life, the content is the king, remember that.
So either self-hosted or subdomain it is part of an important element
for a good blog, a suitable domain name for your blog because people will need
to remember it and hopefully re-visit it again. Treat it as a brand image of
you and your blog. Below are the points I think is important to take in
consideration.
Dot com is your top priority
People surf the net long enough using .com, it's intuitive and it's
more comfortable, if .com already taken please go for others such as .net or
.my for Malaysia is also fine, but first go for .com, why? Maybe one day your
blog is targeted international and .com will come in handy.
Your purpose of blogging
You may start thinking your domain name with the content of your blog,
if you blog about exercising, you might think of something related to that and
plus your own unique thoughts about exercising, doing so may some added value and
will attract people for the same mindset. For example you like exercising but
prefer to do workout in home, your domain name might sounds like “homefitness.com”.
Think of some keywords
Keywords related to your beliefs or purpose that you think well
representing your whole blog. I recommend it ASAP (As Short As Possible),
because you need people to remember your domain name without have the effort to
recall it (it is impossible yea but you got the idea), after you have a keyword
that is easy to remember then naturally people will be able to type it out
easily.
Avoid similarities
If you wanted to have a domain name similar to a big brand, please stop right there, it is
confusing and it leave people to have negative thoughts about you such as
"trying to cheat your way up to the top traffic" or "run out of names"
and "not treating your blog seriously" at worst, they won't even
click because it may look and sounds like a scam website.
Using numbers is tricky
I know it is easy to add numbers behind a name to save up your time
right? Not as simple as that, if you really need to add in numbers you need to
make the number meaning and it match with your domain name for example:
great blog can be g8blog, usually I do not recommend in using numbers
but I had seen most China site used full numbers in their domain name, so I
would suggest using number as your last resort.
Just take a leap
Sometimes you need to just thought of few choices and choose one and
just go ahead even though you still have doubt with it, Think before you act is
correct, just do not think too much. JUMP!!!
Money shall be solution
Well for self-hosted people who wanted a domain name so badly that is
already registered by someone, you might thought of buying it from the owner,
maybe that is your only solution to let you sleep well every night.
Popular words (at the moment)
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| No one do this dance again |
DO NOT use popular, trendy words for your domain name because no matter
how popular certain words it will pass and your domain name will mean nothing
if is only just for trend, so avoid yourself from that trap.
Make sure it is legal
After you have your domain name figured out, you must make sure it does
not violate people’s copyright, this is an important step because if you happen
to violate this, you will be sue and force to change your domain name all over
again, so avoid this at all cost,
you can check copyright.gov to see whether someone has already own your desire domain
name.
In the end it’s just a domain name
After all the tiring, sleepless night and extreme efforts and you
cannot get what you wanted, it is best to let it go because you already done
the best of yours, in fact you may later change the domain name if you have
enough money in future and redirect your old domain name to your new one.
I hope these few tips may help you in completing your guest of naming
your blog, exciting journey will start after the naming process and oh I found
some website for domain name search and check for availability below, have
fun~!
