Comments on: 9 essential things to do before starting a blog in 2024

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:20:09 +0000

In reply to jack. Good to hear - glad you found it useful!

By: jack

jack — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:35:28 +0000

This was such an informative read!

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 07:47:02 +0000

In reply to EJ. Great to hear that you've been finding my advice helpful. I wish you all the best with picking a URL and starting your blog! Eb :-)

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:45:18 +0000

Hi Eb. This was a great read! I’m a gamer and wanted to start a blog about a few of the games I play. I’m struggling with the URL name, because I’m torn between using my gamer tag, Babawaloosie (lol), being in the URL and the number of games I want to blog about. Your info regarding URL names was very helpful. Hopefully, I’ll figure it out and get started. I’ve been keeping a private journal that’s full of content, so need to get the setup stuff done first and then I’m good to go. 🙂 Thanks for all of the information!

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 09:19:34 +0000

In reply to Laura.

Thank you – that’s so lovely to hear! I am not a lawyer, so I can’t advise you on the legal side of things. But personally I would not take that risk. If they are a big, well-established blog, they may have the means to threaten you with legal action. (Whether they would win or not, I have no idea.) Also, from an SEO/marketing stance it’s not a great move to try and go up against someone who already has an established business with a very similar name. Personally, if it were me, I’d pick something else. Hope that helps! Eb 🙂

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:05:10 +0000

Great post, thank you! I’m finding out so much from your blog. However, after reading points 8 and 9 I’m not sure whether to use my planned domain name (which I have already bought!) for my female finance blog. When I type the name of my blog into Google as suggested in point 8, there is not an exact match blog name but another established blog in the same niche with a very similar name comes up in all of the results (although this mainly targets the US market with a small section for the UK, I will primarily be targeting the UK). If I type the name into YouTube the same thing happens. It doesn’t appear when I search on Facebook but a page appears with the exact name I planned to use (although it looks like there has never been anything done with it). Is it ok to use a blog name that has a very similar name in the same niche or will I be breaching some sort of legal rules? Even if this isn’t an issue is it a bad idea from a ranking perspective? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:17:58 +0000

In reply to Newton Ativi. Good to hear!

By: Newton Ativi

Newton Ativi — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:51:22 +0000

Woow! Impressive! It is a great post full of great ideas about how to blog. I found everything I needed. I am confident, and I can now go the right direction to start my first blog. Thanks a lot.

By: Eb Gargano

Eb Gargano — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:19:01 +0000

In reply to Courtney.

Aw, I always feel like I have done my job well when someone tells me they feel like they have fallen down a rabbit hole on my blog! To be completely honest, I would avoid dashes. It’s not the worst thing in the world, but they can cause problems and it makes it harder to give your blog name verbally to someone / for them to remember. And I wouldn’t pay $1200 for a name unless there was a very good reason. If it were me, I’d go back to the drawing board and try to come up with something equally good (or better!) Case in point, when I was choosing the name for this blog I really wanted purposefulblogging.com – but that was a premium domain with a similarly large price tag… Long story short, I ended up choosing productiveblogging.com instead and I am so pleased I did, because I much prefer Productive Blogging!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 03:19:26 +0000

Eb, hello! First, thank you so much for this awesome article, it is the third one I’ve read. I feel like I’ve gone down a blogging rabbit hole and I love it Regarding choosing a domain, are dashes acceptable? I just so happened to choose a premium domain that costs $1200 and the only way I can think of to be able to use the name and as a .com is to use a dash. I look forward to your response! Thank you