Name For Blog About Life (2021)
Name For Blog About Life (2021)
Choosing a Blog Name Where You Are Struggling to Choose a Name for Your Blog?
We’ve all been there – endless lists of blog name ideas that aren’t quite what we’re looking for.
Naming a blog is challenging.
To help you pick the perfect blog name, we’ve put together this two-part guide:
- The first part is a checklist of things to consider and questions to ask yourself. The goal here is to get you thinking beyond just the blog name.
- The second part is a list of tips and tools to help you. We call this the blog naming methods and inspiration section.
This guide will help you regardless of the type of blog you want to start. Whether it’s travel, food, lifestyle, finance, health, technology or anything else.
Okay, let’s get started …
Questions to ask yourself when naming your blog naming your blog
Here are seven things to consider before.
1) What is your blog going to be about?
If you’ve already made a choice for your niche, the answer to the first question should be clear. If you are still in doubt, now is the time to answer the question.
Think about it logically.
If you spend hours choosing a blog name and then decide to blog about something unrelated, you’ve wasted your time. Suppose you choose the name ‘Genius Photography’ and then choose the gaming niche.
If you choose a non-specific name or use your own name, you naturally have more room for maneuver.
But I would still recommend choosing your niche, first because it is a valid exercise.
2) Who is your target audience?
It is important to consider your target audience when choosing your blog name. Check out these two contrasting examples:
Pretty52 Has a Female Audience:
Pretty52 is home to women’s entertainment, viral video, celebrity news and showbiz gossip. Find out why our women’s community loves us so much!
While SPORTBible is aimed at sports fans,
SPORTbible is one of the largest communities for sports fans around the world. With the latest sports news, photos and videos!
If you know your target audience, you can choose a suitable name.
3) What will the tone / voice of your blog look like?
This question follows your target audience. The two examples above – Pretty 52 and SPORTbible – take a young, fresh approach. They provide trending news and gossip with photos and videos.
Compare SPORTbible to ESPN, and you can see the latter has a more mature approach to the way the content is written and presented:
visit ESPN for current sports news coverage, scores, highlights and commentary for Football, Cricket, Rugby, F1, Golf, Tennis, NFL, NBA and more.
4) Are you building your brand around your blog name?
Your blog name can be a great way to build and promote your brand, whether you’re selling a product or service. For example, Pinch van Yum is a food blog with hundreds of simple and delicious recipes. It also provides resources for other food bloggers, including photography and monetization tips:
but not all blogs use their company or brand name.
LADbible started where the company name was the same as the blog name. Today it is the group name of the company with multiple blogs for different niches and audiences; e.g. LADbible, SPORTbible and Pretty52.
5) Does the blog name read correctly if it is in domain URL format?
Don’t be tempted by this. A superlog name can turn into a disaster if you put individual words together and accidentally come up with the wrong words.
Here’s a list of unintended examples, including:
You can see the logo uses two colors to separate the words, but viewing the domain in plain text makes it embarrassing.
Make sure to type your intended blog name in format domain name and verify. It’s also worth having someone else review your idea as it’s easy to get word blind.
Alternatively, you can use the Word Safety tool to ensure that your blog name is not embarrassed in the future.
6) What happens if you change or vary your niche?
We all start a blog with the best of intentions to focus on a niche. But things change. And sometimes you change your original idea.
That’s fine.
But one of the things to consider at that point is whether your blog name and brand are correct. Are they open enough to allow for a change of direction or do you have to choose a new brand name and start over?
It’s a tough question to consider because we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. But if you have any doubts or ideas about possible changes, choose a more open, generic blog name.
However, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t. You can still change. But you could lose momentum in the process.
7) Is it easy to say or spell?
Sometimes a blog name looks great on paper, but when you say it out loud, there is ambiguity.
This happened to me with my first blog. I thought ‘Byte of Data’ (inspired by Pinch of Yum) was well suited for a technology blog about cloud storage and backups. That was until I was interviewed by a radio host who asked me to confirm the blog name. Then I had to spell it out to listeners to avoid confusion as ‘Byte of Data’ might have been spelled ‘Bite of Data’.
Photo sharing site ‘Flickr’ also had similar problems because people naturally typed ‘Flickr’. They ended up buying both domains and setting up a permanent redirect so they don’t lose any business.
Try typing ‘flicker.com’ in the URL bar:
and you will be redirected to ‘flickr.com’: dealing
Remember: smart with words doesn’t always work best.
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How to Name Your Blog: Methods and Inspiration
It’s time to name your blog. Here are ten tools and methods to help you unravel your thoughts.
1)Naming Formulas
Here are two formulas you can try:
Bloga) The ‘Blogging Wizard Magic Blog Name’
formula The first formula is the formula Adam used to come up with blog names:
- blog name = [topic or audience] + [end goal or transformation]
Here are two examples of blog names created using the formula:
- Digital Velocity = [digital marketers] + [quick results]
- Funnel overload = [marketing funnels] + [creation and execution]
Note: although the first name is best catchy, and Adam owns the domain, the website isn’t live. But it’s another great example to illustrate how the blog naming formula works.
OK, so here are a few more examples from the web:
- iPhone Photography School = [iPhone owners] + [lessons on how to take better photos with your iPhone]
- Photography Life = [photographers (all levels)] + [landscape guides , nature and portrait photography]
Sometimes you can turn the formula around:
- blog name = [end goal or transformation] + [subject or audience]
- Expert photography = [become an expert in photography] + [budding photographers]
Try what you come up with for your blog name.
b) Create a portmanteau
A portmanteau is a word that mixes the sounds and combines the meanings of two others.
For example,
- ‘podcast’ is a combination of the words iPod and broadcast
- lunch. Your ‘brunch’ comes from breakfast and
can combine two words to make a new word, especially two words that indicate what you want to help your audience with, or main brand values.
A good example is Primility by Jerod Morris of Copyblogger. It combines ‘Pride’ and ‘Humility’:
- Here’s a long list of wallets for more inspiration.
WordUnscrambler.net has a handy tool for testing these types of words, which leads us to our next section …
2) Blog Name Generators
There are plenty of blog name generators available online. Try these two to get started (they’re great for domain names too):
a) Wordoid Blog name
Wordoidgenerator isn’t your typical one. Worddroid generates made-up words.
They look and feel great. They are good for naming things like blogs.
The tool has some input parameters on the left where you select:
- Language – Select a language to have wordoids created according to the rules of that language. Select two or more to combine the flavors of different languages.
- Quality – Controls how wordoids look, sound and feel. The higher it is, the more they resemble the natural words of the selected languages.
- Pattern – Wordoids can start with, end with, or contain a short fragment. Enter something or leave the field blank to create completely random wordoids.
- Length – Set the maximum length of the wordoids. Short wordoids tend to look better than long ones.
- Domain – Choose whether to show or hide wordoids when both .com and .net domain names are not available.
Here are some suggestions for “high-quality wordoids in English, containing” camera “and no more than 10 letters long”:
Some are strange, but I could go with cameration. What do you think?
b) Panabee
Panabee is a simple way to search for company names, domain names and app names:
you enter a few words, for example ‘camera tricks’, and Panabee generates many suggestions derived from phonemes, syllables, abbreviations, suffixes, prefixes and popular domain trends:
There are also lists of related terms for each word, plus domain availability checks, app name and social media profiles:
3) Thesaurus
A thesaurus is not a dinosaur species.
Nor is it a replacement doorstop.
As a writer and blogger, a thesaurus is one of my most used tools. But it can also be a source of inspiration when trying to make up your blog name.
Synonyms are those words that have a similar meaning to your keyword. For starters, the word ‘trick’ has many different meanings depending on the context in which it is used:
if you scroll to the appropriate tab – ‘expertise, know-how’ – you will get a list of synonyms, including method, secret, skill , technique, dexterity and swing:
you can also try my favorite vocabulary tool, Word Hippo:
and get similar results including expertise, gift, know-how, method, secret, skill, technique, ability, art, command, craft, facility, hang, knack, and swing:
a thesaurus will never let you down.
4) Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words in succession or at short intervals. Here are some examples:
- Mad Dog Music
- Shooting Star Soccer School
One of the most satisfying things about alliterations is the natural rhythm they give to your brand name.
You can reuse your thesaurus if you need related words instead of your opening words.
5) Abbreviations
An abbreviation can often turn out to be better in the long run than the full version of a brand name. Take International Business Machines for example. That’s pretty long-winded, and with so many letters, there’s a good chance they’ll be misspelled or mistyped. But IBM is spicier and more memorable.
Three letter abbreviations seem to do particularly well:
- BMW – Bayerische Motoren Werkein German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English
- RAC – Royal Automobile Club
- PWC – PriceWaterhouseCoopers
6) Unrelated words
We looked at related words with a thesaurus to find synonyms. But you can also go the other way.
Because using unrelated words for your blog name can turn out to be catchy too. For example, who would have thought of linking dogs and music? But that’s what Red Dog Music did:
and then of course there’s that famous technology company that uses the name of a fruit:
7) Use another language
If you’re struggling to find a unique name in your language, try another. Or combine words from different languages. That’s what I did when I chose Azahar Media.
Azahar is the Spanish word for orange blossom, and I can assure you it has nothing to do with my blog. (It’s just an unrelated word I like):
Media refers to the tools used to store and deliver information or data.
When you combine a foreign name with a famous name, you can create a unique blog name.
Try Google Translate to use to get inspiration for foreign words, whether or not related to your brand.
8) Check your competition
Checking your competitors may not seem like the best idea, but sometimes it can be enough to give you a moment of inspiration. Seeing what works for a competitor will give you an idea of what might work for you.
Check out some of the popular ones:
- TechCrunch – Startup and Technology
- News TechRadar – The Resource for Tech
- Tech Blog Buying Advice TechVibes – Technology News, Innovation and Culture
They all like to use the word ‘tech’ plus another distinctive word. They all relate to technology news, but each has a different slant and emphasis.
9) Brainstorm with pen and paper
Sometimes the simplest tools are enough. There is nothing wrong with removing all distractions and just writing down what’s in your head. It’s a great way to clear your mind, and often when you see words in front of you, you get more inspiration because one idea leads to another.
You can take it a step further and invite friends and family to a brainstorming session. Everyone has a different perspective, and you’re bound to get ideas you didn’t consider.
10) Use your own name
There are pros and cons to using your own name for your blog.
Many bloggers have used their own names. It works well for personal branding services, but then again, it doesn’t work that well when you’re selling a product. Always use the product name in that situation.
Here are a few self-blogs that offer services:
- proclaimedJohn Espirian uses his middle name:middle name:
- while Gill Andrews uses her first and
using your own name also gives you the flexibility to refine or change a niche without choosing a new name.
Ready to search for domain names? For security reasons, we recommend that you do not register domains with your web host. Instead, use a separate domain registrar like Namecheap to check availability and register your domain.
Conclusion
Choosing the ‘right’ blog name depends on your niche, target audience, products and services. Taking the time now to weigh your options will pay off over time.
Try a few blog naming methods and tools. Play with words and sentences. And, more importantly, get some feedback before you finally make up your mind about your blog name. If you need more help, check out our Domain Name Idea
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