Starting a New Blog and Choosing a Domain
So you’ve decided to start a free blog over hosting your own. Unfortunately, there are some instances when this is the only option for you. When choosing your free blogs domain name there are many things you need to keep in mind. It can help or hurt you in the long run depending upon the name you choose.
First you have to discover the point of your blog. Is it an extremely tight niche blog purely focusing every post on one word? Sometimes, the more specific, the better. Other times, it may be the other way around. If the majority of your posts are going to focus on one main term or if you would like to receive traffic primarily from only one designated group of people then it’s rather easy to pick a name. Your search engine results will be much better for the term ‘make money blog’ if your domain name was, makemoneyblog.com. That’s just the way it is with the search engines. Obviously, domain names can be costly and might not be worth it. Make sure you identify some keywords that people can use in order to tell your blog apart from others. The more unique, the better.
Secondly, the free domains available on your blogging platform and actual domains available for self hosting are different. You may find one that is available on Blogger or WordPress, but you may not be able to ever register it by yourself because somebody else has taken the domain for self hosting. You want to have the option to be able to move it into your own domain, yet retaining your site's original name. So after you find one you like, check godaddy.com to see if it is available. This will prevent you from having somebody snatch your desired domain name. :)
After you’ve found a couple of keywords and somehow incorporated them into your domain name that is available both on your free blogging platform and your godaddy, you are ready to create your free blog. There are many other things that you will need to do to start in order to efficiently use this keyword advantage, but you are off to a great start. Many people are sometimes forced to restart their blog due to the fact that it is not attracting enough viewers. The fact is, some of their keywords just aren't right for their type of blog. Keep this in mind before starting your own.
-Aud
