You've decided to create a new blog or website and you're ready to give it a name, and you think it's a no-brainer? It's not that fast! The first thing you should know about naming your new website is this: this name is what determines the future of your website.
While choosing your site name is just one part of the beginning, it is one of the most important because of its longevity and radical relevance to your website or blog.
This is one of the reasons why choosing a website name and domain name is not easy. It's not something you can do as an afterthought. It's not something you can multitask with. Choosing a website name requires focused attention, due diligence, reflection, brainstorming, and the use of time.
For tips and advice on choosing an attractive and effective blog domain name, you've come to the right place. By the end of this article, you will have a solid plan for finding a great name for your blog or website.
Blog Names vs Domain Names - What's the difference?
Once you've read up to this point, you're probably starting to wonder about this. Is the site name different from the domain name? And what is the domain name?
The domain is also referred to as your URL. It's your web address, the text you type at the top of your browser to go to a website. Most URLs start with www and end with .com, but others replace .com with things like .net or .org or more specialized endings like .shop. You can read the special article that tells you everything you need to know about the domain name.
How do you choose your website name?
We started with the domain name, but you really need to work on your website and domain names at the same time, and you'll see why when we get to domain names.
To name your website, use the following strategies and considerations. And remember, your website's name may not necessarily include all of these things. But you certainly can try, and that's the point. These are the guidelines for creating the best website and domain name.
1. Ask yourself important questions
What is your website? What is his goal about? What are his areas of work, subject, specialization or target field? The site name should try to communicate that.
What makes your site unique? Can you find an angle that sets you apart from the crowd in the web world?
What vibe or personality do you want to convey? Are you aiming for entertainment, professionalism, expertise, methodology, impact? You may be able to insert an idea of your site's domain into the name itself.
2. Find some related blogs
Start reading and getting to know similar sites, get to know their names, areas of work, compare them with your idea, and find out what bothers you or what you don't like about them to avoid on your website.
However, you don't want your site's name or domain to be too similar to an existing one. Because this will hurt both of you, because it is difficult to build a unique brand identity in this case. Plus it may confuse search engines and reduce one of you's visibility online.
3. Good brainstorming
At some point in this process, sit down and write down any ideas you come up with on paper. Ignoring quality and usefulness. Just get them out of your head on paper or screen. This gets your mind excited about the creative process, and you'll come up with more ideas than you ever expected.
4. Short and sweet
Your site name cannot be a long sentence. Look around at company names. You will see that the longest names of websites and blogs may contain a limited number of words or even letters only. Try to choose the shorter names that fully reflect your site. Your blog name should be short enough to fit easily on a business card and easy to remember.
5. Ease of pronunciation, spelling and remembering
Imagine talking to someone and verbally telling them the name of your blog. Will it be easy for them to spell your site name correctly?
The name of your website should be easy to pronounce and spell so that most people will know what you mean once they hear the name. You should also avoid words that can be spelled more than one, because they may lead to writing the name of your blog or website incorrectly, and thus you will lose a lot of traffic.
6. Get creative
Creativity can come in many forms. The important thing is that your creativity needs to match the atmosphere of your website. If you want a serious site, do not use a name that denotes entertainment and fun, and vice versa, you cannot have a serious site name if you are thinking of an entertaining blog.
7. Include a keyword
It is best if your site name contains at least one keyword in your industry. This has a huge benefit when it comes to driving online traffic.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a whole field and plan built around the effort to drive traffic to your website. Your site's URL plays a big role in this because it shows search engines like Bing, Yahoo, and Google what your site is and what its domain is.
The keyword piece is more associated with the domain name than the blog name, but as you've seen, they are closely related.
8. Use the audience test
Once you've brainstormed and narrowed down your list using the criteria and other tools in this article, we hope you've settled on a few potential site names.
At this point, it's not a bad idea to consult a group of friends and see what they think. Give them 2-4 names for your site, and ask for their reactions and comments. Of course, you will not only create the website for you, but also target others.
Better yet, and less biased - because your friends won't hurt your feelings - you can bring it up to people you don't have a direct relationship with and you know they won't compliment you.
9. Choosing a domain name
As we mentioned earlier, the choice of the domain name corresponds to the name of your site. They may not be identical, but they should be very close.
Here are some important factors when choosing a domain name:
The domain address must be available (you can check its availability through the Menabit website).
Cost - Domain prices vary widely from under ten dollars to thousands.
Extension - Try to use an extension that really represents your industry, not necessarily .com.
Once you have chosen your website name and domain name and verified its availability, you can simply enjoy getting this domain for free when you purchase any cloud hosting plan or WordPress hosting from Menabitt.
