When it comes to creating a business, a working title, a name for a book, a first name for your child or for a weblog - there's an awful lot of importance in choosing the right name.
All 'students' of The Blog-Studio will have a FREE guest-author account already set up with the Typepad blog-software. This enables them to publish posts on this blog - eager beavers can create an own account very quickly and simple (more on the different accounts in a later post).
The most important first step when creating an unique own blog-account is choosing the name of the primary (root) domain name. All typepad blogs start with #####.typepad.com/**** (where ##### stands for the root name and **** is the weblog name (some accounts allow you to create more blogs than just the one).
Example from personal experience: woodyoulike.typepad.com is the root domain name of all my (Karin H.) own blogs. For the first blog - the Wood You Like FAQ blog - this root domain name is very appropriate (and even Google friendly), for the Kiss Business Too blog and this Blog-Studio blog it wasn't (these two have been 'domain-mapped', woodyoulike.typepad.com/kiss2 is 'mapped' to www.thekissbusiness.co.uk and woodyoulike.typepad.com/bs is mapped to www.blog-studio.co.uk).
Hence the importance of choosing the right and appropriate root domain name of you blog account - even if you plan to only set up the one blog. It's the one item you cannot simply change afterwards!
Best advice we can give you in selecting your root domain name is your own name (like richardcalderwood.typepad.com) or you company or organisation name (like woodyoulike.typepad.com).
The 'name' question is asked during setting up your own blog account - so be prepared!
What's in a name? Hopefully we explained there's is a lot to a name! And Google thinks so too.
Create Your Blog Today TypePad
(New online home-study program now available on the 1 plus 1 makes 3 blog-site: The Practical Typepad Guide on sale now! Learn how to grow your business in a simple and effective way using a blog platform)
Comments