After finding the idea of your blog and its theme, you want find the ideal blog name ?

The one who will mark the spirits and allow you to pull your pin out of the game?

Know you're in the right place!

You have already achieved many victories. However, if there is a dreadful stage, it is good choosing the name of a blog.

It happens that even before its content, the first thing users write down from your blog is its name. In other words, the name of a blog is its identity.

Finding the name of his blog (or domain name) is not an easy thing.

It is quite normal to stop at the choice of the name of his blog, to make lists, to be distraught, unconvinced and sceptical enough.

But good news, we've all been there!

This guide will give you all the necessary keys for find the name of your blog.

Without further delay, let's find the name of your future blog!

What makes a good blog name?

The answer to this question is 5 points:

• Originality: It must be distinctive and distinguish you from your competitors.
• Relevance: It must reflect the main theme addressed by your blog.
• Memorability: It must be memorable and easy to remember. I agree with you, it's not obvious.
• Flexibility: ideally, your blog name may allow you to talk about things a little outside your original domain.
• Its clarity and simplicity: It must be easy to spell and pronounce.

If your blog name ticks this whole checklist, congratulations, you probably have a hell name that will make a difference!

How to find the name of his blog?

The domain name has three roles: create the address of your blog, contribute to its personality and be memorable.

Generally, an ideal blog name is composed of two or three words. A good domain name for his blog is an original, short, easy to remember name that reflects the blog's theme.

With the simple name of your blog, readers should immediately know that your blog is talking and what it will potentially bring to them.

Here are the 3 steps to find the ideal domain name for his blog, from research ideas to adoption.

Step 1: Define the type of your blog

Will your blog have personal content or professional content? Is it intended to sell a particular product or to address a specific topic?

For each type of blog, there is a type of domain name or even more.

We find 3 main options for blog domain names:

• SEO-oriented blog name (also called EMD for exact match domain)
• Personal name (composed of your surname + first name)
•  Brand name (such as Nike, Adidas, Blogaddict, etc.)

Let's take a look at what's behind those names.

Choose a blog name SEO-friendly

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned blogger, SEO is an essential tool for anyone who wants to hold a blog, or several successful blogs.

When the canvas counts more than 500 million blogs, know how to refer is essential to make yourself known and publicize your blog. It would be a shame to write good content that will not have any audience or reader.

Needless to be an optimization guru to put your blog forward, just have some notions of SEO maybe enough.

That being said, when an Internet user searches by keywords, domain names containing his or her keywords are slightly more likely to report than others. Today, its impact is low but it will always be taken.

Thus, your site will appear as an answer to this search, obviously thanks to your content in terms of articles, but also thanks to your domain name!

If you miss inspiration or ideas to find the most popular keywords of your topic, several tools are available, including Google Trends.

This free tool allows you to see the keywords and web searches performed most frequently in your topic.

Once you find your keywords, let the ideas fuse. You can choose one of its words and add an adjective, make combinations or neologisms, the possibilities are endless!

An example of an EMD domain name:

• shoes.fr
• creerunblog.fr
• to be blessed.fr

You understand, this kind of domain name is very talking! So they have a definite advantage!

Choose a personal blog name

Several successful entrepreneurs have simply chosen to give their names to their blog domain names.

This is an option that holds the road, but includes some risk taking. Choosing your own name as a blog name means:

• Publicly state his name
• Being personally associated with the content of his blog
• Lack of visibility if our name is not known

If you are willing to take on these aspects, this blog name solution can be a good strategy.

Choose a product-oriented blog name / brand

If you intend to sell a product or develop a brand on your blog, you can give the brand name directly to your blog.

Having an original blog name has its advantages. However, you should not try to imitate big names like Amazon, Nike or Apple, at least if you start.

The latter have behind them years of marketing advice and billions spent on advertising.

Not all ideas are necessarily good. Try to always include a clue about the content of your blog to make it easier for readers to understand.

Not only will your visitors have more facilities to remember, but also your blog name will be very talking.

Use a name generator!

If you really dry out, maybe it's time to introduce you to some name generation tools?

Here's one of my favorites: Atlasmic.com

Simply enter a keyword and select a category. Then we have a lot of ideas:

Another also exists, called Namesnack.

It works exactly like Atlsamic, has a difference: it tells you the availability of the domain name.

Use ChatGPT

The revolution is not waiting!

Indeed, ChatGPT entered our lives on November 30, 2022. And since then, its use has proved to be very useful to a lot of things. Including the generation of blog names ideas...

He personally helped me find the name of one of my newsletters, and honestly, I'm really delighted (this is Freelance Insider).

Do you want an example? That way, you will know exactly how to find a blog name with ChatGPT!

Here's how I start a conversation with him by asking him to give me names for my blog, and what he says:

Frankly, the results are great, I think! It is of course possible to give him other instructions to refine his proposals, such as adding an English term or the one you would like to see in the name of your blog for example.

Or simply ask him to generate new ones.

Step 2: Make a list in its theme

Now that you know what type of blog name you're headed for, it's time to give life to your ideas.

For this research, let's focus directly on a blog name oriented SEO. After all, you might as well join the useful with the pleasant! A domain name that you enjoy and that will help you in your SEO.

First, put your blog's theme on paper or in an Excel file.

Then write down your ideas. If you lack inspiration, note several words from the lexical field that belong to the theme of your blog. (You can do a little online search to help you.)

Words can be popular keywords, terms you like or both. Don't hesitate to combine a keyword with a second, more personal term.

Tip: If you have an opportunity to do so, ask your friends or community for advice on social media. The external opinion of your potential audience is welcome and, who knows, it could give you ideas.

Step 3: Verify that the blog name is available

Once you have a list of several possible blog names, it is time to proceed to a crucial step that can be quite unfair!

Indeed, it may be that a majority of the names you selected are no longer available.

The domain name market is very competitive, in addition to millions of blogs, some buy and sell domain names (called domain names), while others buy them and don't necessarily use them for their blog.

To find out if your blog name is free, several tools offer to give you the answer. For example, simply enter the desired domain name on the website of LWS And... cross your fingers!

If multiple domain names are no longer available, you can choose from those that remain. And if unfortunately, all names are no longer available, no panic!

You can position yourself on other keywords before starting the process again. The rare pearl is never very far from you.

I invite you to enter as much of your blog name ideas as possible and check, for each, whether it is available for purchase or not.

You will have a list of domain names available and you will only have to select the one you like most.

Once your domain name is in hand, then it's only left to create your blog.

Also discover: The complete guide to choosing a domain name for your blog

Which domain name extension to choose?

Now that you have the domain name of your blog, the choice of extension is a mandatory and important step.

Not only is the extension an integral part of the domain name, but it can also give users an idea of the nature of your blog.

To get an idea, we will review the best known extensions:

• .org
• .com
• .net
• .fr

The function and distribution sector of the blog

The domain name extension reflects the category and origin of each blog.

.org

Indeed, the extension .org, abbreviation of « organization » is intended for non-profit organisations, community sites and even public service. It is therefore not, by nature, an extension intended for all blogs.

In fact, however, nothing prevents you from using this extension for anything. I myself have a blog using this extension.

.com

At the same time, initially, the extension .com Rather, it was used for a company's website or blog.

Since then, his popularity has exploded. All major sites, blogs and social networks use it. Indeed .com is the extension par excellence for many blogs. If your blog's domain name is available in .com, go!

To make it simple, .com is the most popular extension.

.net

As regards .net, abbreviation of « Internet » was originally intended for network professionals. Gradually, this extension became democratized before becoming the second most used extension.

This position makes the .net extension a good substitute for the .com domain name of a blog.

.fr

Finally, contrary to an idea circulating, the .fr is a very powerful extension. It is one of the most important extensions of the French market in terms of visibility and user numbers.

If your blog's broadcast area and network focus on France and French-speaking countries, an extension in .fr for its domain name is a good choice.

This extension can then easily replace a .com or .net extension.

That's my favorite extension. When I can, i get the .com and .fr version of a domain name but, I create the site on the version .fr.

I think it gives him a more "premium" side. Must be a question of taste...

Don't overtake your head with the extension of your domain name!

Even if it may be important in some cases, whether you have a .com, a .fr or a .net, it is not this feature that will influence the success of your blog.

I just recommend you avoid extensions a little baffled and known for their SPAM as the .xyz and .gq For example.

Even if your content will indeed be of quality, the image that internet users of these extensions can play in your disfavor in the first place, even if it doesn't make it an absolute truth.

Fatal errors for his blog name

Before concluding this article, it is important to highlight the errors to avoid when choosing its domain name.

1.      Choose a blog name too close to a competitor.

Always do, and I always say, a web search with the selected name to check that there is not a blog with a too similar name.

This would be bad for the SEO and traffic of your blog.

2.      Do not check whether the domain name is not a registered trademark.

You have checked whether the name of your blog is not used as a domain name, but it is better to check also if it is not the name of a brand!

To do this, simply visit the official website of The National Institute of Industrial Property of France.

Prudence is a safe mother.

3.      Choose an incomprehensible domain name.

Sometimes our poet side comes out.

Even if it's not a bad thing, it can play bad tricks about the name of a blog.

Go straight to the goal, your blog name must be easy to understand.

4.      Choose a blog name too long.

In addition to being generally ugly, it will be difficult to keep it easily. Again, try to choose a name of acceptable length and easily pronounced.

To give you an example, I had a blog (on German dears) whose name included "Panzerkampfwagen". I, who am Alsatian, have no problem in saying it and reading it, but this is not the case of all my knowledge and rare were those who even came to read it...

Error on my part, especially as I was targeting the French market.

I think you understand what I'm saying.

A little trick if you feel stuck at that level: cut some words in half. Try word games like that.

Here are two examples that could help you:

• Justdo.it (wordplay made using the Italian ccTLD extension.it)
• Charpanzer.tld (it would have been more talking than before, even if the meaning did not mean much: literally "char")

Conclusion

Here we are at the end of the guide, I hope it will have been useful to you.

Below are the key points and tips for finding the ideal blog name:

• To find a good domain name, it must be short and speaking. An original blog name is a good idea, an extravagant name, a little less.
• When one wants to find the name of his blog, it all starts with a list and brainstorming!
• One of the best choices for its domain name is SEO-oriented, opting for an EMD. The downside is that it will not be obvious to broaden the theme of his blog. It'll be up to you!
• Always check that the domain name is free and that there is no trademark of the same name on the file.INPIIn the same area as you. It is possible that an entity exists under the same name as yours, but not in the same sector. In that case, it's probably not a problem. An excellent example is the case of dsl.fr and esl.com. While one is an esport site, the other is a linguistic site. Both live together very well.
• Think about your target audience. If the name of your blog comes to speak to him instinctively, then it's jackpot.
• For your domain name, choose a familiar extension. Internet users are increasingly sceptical about domain names that they do not know well. (.ru, .ch, .co, .xyz .gq...)