How to Create a Domain Name for Your Blog
Date: Tuesday June 24, 2008Posted in: Building a Blog with Traffic
I am convinced that in order to have a viable money making blog, you need to have one with it’s own domain name and hosted on your hosting service. This way you are not at the mercy of a free blog’s company’s play in today’s market. If you don’t agree then tell me what you think happened to GEOcities and Infoseek after the dot com crash.
Don’t get too confused, I do use the free wordpress software, but I use it on my server. My blog is not on their server. If Wordpress ever goes under - it won’t for many reasons, but let’s say if- I just get a new software to post my blog, nothing is lost. If I didn’t do this and Wordpress went under, I’d lose my entire blog! EEP!
So, you need to start out right and invest in the host and domain name. But what do you call your blog? Here are a few things to consider when deciding on a domain name:
- Don’t be fickle, you will not want to change the name once you have one so give yourself time to decide on the right one.
- The name should reflect the blog topic.
- As a rule the shorter the better - no, I didn’t adhere to this one.
- Remember keywords, they work very well in a domain name.
- Spell it right!
- Put the words together and be sure they do not spell anything bad. For instance the word ‘exchange’ should never be used after the word ‘kids’.
Once you have a domain name register it at the same time you get a hosting service. Often you’ll find you get a deal on the name costs.
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