How to choose a name for your blog? (Practical guide)
Creating a blog involves the daunting task of selecting the perfect name for it. It’s important to pick a name that reflects your brand and accurately captures its essence. After all, this will be how people identify you and relate to your content. To make things easier for you, here’s a practical guide showing the exact steps I took to choose the name of this blog – Cents from Home.
Before I could even begin to consider a title for my blog, writing this post was the first step. Although some ideas had crossed my mind, nothing was set in stone yet. After doing extensive research on how to pick an ideal name for one’s blog, here are some of the tips I found most helpful: using your own name; including niche keywords that would contribute to SEO value; forming generic names, catchy words combinations and settling with brief titles!
What was my approach in choosing a name for my blog? Striking a balance between my personal preferences, the intended meaning, and the availability of options (given that many were already in use) was of utmost importance. Thus, here are the steps that guided me towards discovering the perfect title for my blogging adventure.
Step 1: Brainstorming of words.
I initiated the process by compiling a catalog of words that held significance in alignment with my blog’s purpose, my industry niche, and personal branding.
Here’s my word selection: Simple, Easy, Journey, Path, Road, Virtual, Dream, Cents, Frugal, Pretty, Live, Life, Fulfill, Enjoy, Joy, Success, Home, Digital
Step 2: Mix and match these words
Next came the fun part – combining two or more of these words to form interesting phrases that could potentially become my blog’s title. To explore all the potential options, I created a spreadsheet with all possible combinations.
Step 3: Narrow it down
Once I had the combinations, I started to narrow down the options to those that seemed like they could work. It was important to pick something that would not only portray my blog’s purpose but also be short and memorable.
After carefully considering my options and narrowing the choices to a select few, I came up with these final contenders.
- Cents from home
- Digital cents
- Digital journey
- Home cents
- Pretty simple cents
- Simple cents
- Simple journey
- Success from home
- Virtual cents
- Virtual journey
Ultimately, I selected three options that best fit my needs.
- centsfromhome.com
- avirtualjourney.com
- thevirtualjourney.com
Step 4: Search domain and social media availability
After selecting the potential names, my next step was to check if these domain names and social media handles were available.
I made a small table to check availability of domain and social media names:
| URL | IG | |||
| 1. centsfromhome.com | yes | yes | no | yes |
| 2. avirtualjourney.com | yes | no | no | yes |
| 3. thevirtualjourney.com | no | yes | yes | yes |
After completing these searches, I determined that the domain name and social media handle for ‘Cents From Home’ were available. Ultimately, this was my final selection!
Conclusion
Choosing the right name for your blog is an important decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Following the steps outlined above, I was able to select a title that accurately reflects my blog’s purpose and is easy to remember. I hope this guide helps you pick the perfect name for your blog. Good luck!
Now that you have decided the name for your blog, you can proceed to create your blog on WordPress.
