For those who wish to get started on blogging, whether it be to make money or to keep in touch with family and friends, trying to figure out what to name your blog can be one of your biggest challenges. I have an easy solution to what many find to be a big “road block” to moving forward.
- If you want people to be able to find your blog via the Internet Search Engines like Google, the fastest and easiest road there is to find a domain name for your blog that matches what people are searching for related to your subject matter. If you have read earlier posts on how to get found on Google, you understand that the Google algorithms are programmed to help people searching on Google to find the most relevant results. Typically, the most relevant results to any search would be a domain name that matches the search term…right? If you “Google” nadine blogs, the number one result is currently www.nadineblogs.com, because the domain name matches the search term.
- You may be asking yourself how exactly you figure what people are searching for…and again…pretty easy to figure out…IF you know where to look.
- Google has a “keyword tool” I like to use to help me figure out what to name my websites and blogs, which I STRONGLY encourage you to utilize before you name your blog or register your domain name. The best way to use this tool is to type in different search terms that match the desired subject of your blog. You will see a list of results with numbers that indicate the search volume for each term.
- Your best bet is to find a term that has the highest number of search volume and try to buy a domain name to match it. To give you a good example, I will use one of my most recent clients, “Moore’s Martial Arts” in Livermore, CA. Moore’s doesn’t currently have a website or domain name for the school located in Livermore, so we are starting from scratch.
- The steps I went through to find the “perfect” domain name are as follows:
- I search using the keyword tool for terms that included Livermore martial arts. Martial arts being the most generic term I could think of to describe what they do. Upon doing my research, I found that there are close to 600 searches each month for the term “Livermore Martial Arts“. When you consider the amount of search volume for that particular keyword, it would make great sense to see if I can obtain the domain name “Livermore Martial Arts”, which is exactly what we did.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: It is important for me to note that just because I have identified a great domain name that matches the search term, it in no way guarantees this website will make it to the front page of the search engines. What helps get you to the front page of the search engines is good content that is relative to the term you wish to be found for. It is also VERY important to submit your site to the search engines by submitting your site map. No site map…no search results.
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October 16th, 2009
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