Periodic Fable

If you are setting up a new blog, probably the next important task after choosing your blog niche is to the job of choosing a name for your blog. One of the first questions is whether to have a quirky name that no-one has already got, so that you can easily be found in Google – or choose a keyword carefully based on what people search on in Google and so that they can find your blog by subject.

Here are some key tips for choosing your blog name

• vital to get this right
• choose a descriptive name that is appropriate for your topic
• not too quirky (there are quirky blog names – Boing Boing! – but a new one with a quirky name won’t be found as easily by search engines – this blog, for example had a much slower start than if I’d called it E-learning Insights or something!)
• using specific words in the title will give your blog more Google-juice!
• Make sure no-one is using your blog title/name already for a blog or a website
• Chose the name alongside a domain name and make make sure you buy it as soon as you’ve chosen!
• Don’t let it get too long though
• Keep it permanent – you don’t want to lose traffic by changing names and/or URLs