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 »