Like what I explore in this topic, there are many ways to make blog with your own domain address such as http://domainname.com. However there are two common ways among all, are :

1. Self hosted WordPress Blog – buying domain + rent hosting and install the blogware wordpress. (which we already talked before )

2. Custom Domain Blogger.com – making blog in blogspot, buying domain, direct the blog in blogspot to the domain we purchased which we will discuss now

The concept of custom domain is very simple. Having blog in blog spot is very easy and cheap even free. However the blog in blogger / blogspot has one problem: the URL address will be very long since you have to add : blogspot.com), which look very general and not very professional. Read the rest of this entry »

Selecting the name of the domain is more than just giving an identity for your blog since it could also give impact about how many visitor would visit your blog.

Start with an end in mind (Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits). First of all you need to set the goal about what you want to achieve through your blog. Different purpose of the blog would have different rules as well. Naming personal blog, corporate blog and niche blog which content of certain topic would also be different. In other saying, you need to know what do you want to explore through your blog, how do you want to write it and who do you expect to visit your blog and read your writing.

Refer to Darren Rowse (ProBloger), in order to know the traffic source of your blog, at least you have to know about this three traffic sources :

1. Search Engine (where the visitors come through engine like Google)
2. Loyal Readers (Direct Traffic)
3. Refferal Traffic (from other website that link to your blog) Read the rest of this entry »