If you can swing it, it’s really best if your blog URL and your blog title match. It will be much easier for your readers to find you. It’s quite possible, though, with the boom of new blogs out there, that the blog URL you want is taken. If that’s the case, choose a blog URL that is somehow related to your blog content or similar to its title and you’ll be just fine.
Whether you are using the URL supplied by your blog host (e.g., yourblogname.typepad.com) or a domain name (www.yourblogname.com) choose something that is easy to type and easy to remember. You don’t want your readers to have to type in wowthisisareallyfantasticunbeleivableblogyoullloveit.blogspot.com. They will probably fall asleep or find something shiny before they get to the end.
If you can’t get the same URL as the name of your blog, at least try to get something that’s related to your blog. For example, my (now defunct) personal blog was called Don’t Try This at Home. As you can imagine, that URL was not available for purchase. I ended up buying and using the domain www.donttryit.com because it was fairly close to my blog’s name. If you can swing it, though, try to get the domain and blog title to match perfectly.
In case the URL match with blog name is not available, people usually add prefix “the”,”a”,.. or suffix “s”,”101″, “102”,”az”. These case are no problem, right?
Thanks Sarah! I’m glad I checked back!
Susanne, If you use Feedburner, your feed subscriptions will transfer seemlessly. If you buy a domain name, you can also have the original address re-routed to the new one.
I used to have singforhim94.blogspot.com. (my screen name was singforhim) I changed to www. reallifeblog.net, but if you type the blogspot address, it automatically changes to the new one. This is relatively easy to do in Blogger.
You will have to start all over in Technorati and search engines, though.
Thanks for the info. :0)
In keeping with this question, how hard is it to change a person’s url once they’ve had the original one for more than a year. I’ve been thinking of doing just that to put my blog title in there instead but have been afraid the few readers I have will lose me. Dumb question but it doesn’t change automatically in feeds, does it?
Expect people to often link to you as your URL name, not your title. That happens to me a LOT.
Not that I’m complaining.
There’s a tanyetta.blogspot.com that the person hasn’t updated since like forever! 🙁 I sure wish they would give it up so I can have it 🙂
Have you thought about doing Tanyetta().blogspot.com?
Where you would use your middle initial or last initial for the ()?
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