Treat Blog Names as Seriously as Book Names: Morty Schiller

Some great thoughts and comments from Morty Schiller on blog names.

Hmmm, blog names MAY be more important than book names. After all, my blog may be alive and kicking well after my books are eventually out of print.

And with that, Heeeere's Morty:

I called my blog Wordrider when I started it in 2005. I was still looking at blogs then as breezy journals. I commented once on your blog about how I got the name. I originally thought of calling it "Wordsmith." But I found that some people had negative connotations with that term.

If I were naming my blog now, I would treat the name as seriously as a book title--suggesting an immediate benefit for reading. But I think changing the name might do more harm than good.

Comments

[Albert]

Very true, you need long term vision. I'm still kicking myself for getting .net for my blog instead of .com.

Cheers,
Albert | UrbanMonk.Net
Modern personal development, entwined with ancient spirituality.

[Morty]

Ted,
I see my TrackBack got truncated.
I blogged about your post and added some quotes from book marketing gurus Dan Poynter and Nat Bodian on the importance of titles.
Two of my favorite book titles:
Usability expert Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" and media scholar/critic Neil Postman's attack on television: "Amusing Ourselves to Death."

[Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business]

Hi Albert,
Thanks for stopping by. Long term vision is good -- wish I had it! BloggingforBusinessBook.com is a looong and will certainly become a strange name in a few years.

Thanks again Morty,

Not sure what the trackback defaults are here but I can't modify them

[MLM Script]

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