How to Choose the Right Name for Your Travel Blog

So you finally made the big decision: you decided to open a travel blog and chase your dreams. You did well, I assure you! 
Opening a travel blog to me has changed my life : five years ago, if someone had told me that I could make money with a blog and that I could travel thanks to it, I would have laughed.

Instead, here I am 5 years later to encourage people to accept my own challenge.

Before proceeding, however, let me take it a while ‘saying that I’m happy because I have already convinced dozens of people to open a travel blog and I’m really proud of this 🙂

That said, one of the hardest things and one of the most frequently asked questions, was how to choose the name of the blog .

This article wants to help you do just that, to clarify a bit ‘ideas on how to choose the name of your blog. We will also talk about something not so obvious: the names to be avoided like the plague .

The name of your blog (also known as the domain name) is all that is found between the “www.” And the “.it” of the URL of your website, but not only. The name will become your brand, your business and your earnings, so it’s one of the most important aspects of a travel blog and you have to choose it carefully.

Remember the choice of the name is THE thing to which you have to pay more attention than all because:

1 – you have to choose a name that you like . In short, the name of the blog is like a tattoo: it’s something that you wear on you and that you’re supposed to keep for the rest of your life so you have to like it and not have to get tired of it. If for some unpleasant reason you decide to change it, you will have to spend and waste both money and time.

2 – the name of the blog will also be the domain name and therefore must be something that is easy to remember and to edit for those looking for you on the web: the name can make the difference between having readers find you (and they come back ) and readers who can not find you anymore and who will therefore go somewhere else (probably from one of your competitors).

3 – the name of your blog is what will distinguish you from millions of other blogs.

Also remember that it is very important to choose the name of the blog as soon as possible because it means starting to blogging as soon as possible and then start earning as soon as possible.

Names that I would personally avoid

Before starting to give you some ideas on the name of the blog, I started by telling you the names that I would personally avoid in order to narrow down the possibilities.

First of all, I would avoid clichés : your name must stand out in a market of millions of travel blogs, so it is better to avoid the usual terms that you see appear in 75% of blogs on the web.

Choose the destination and prepare for the trip: here’s how I do it

One of the biggest difficulties for a traveler is to choose the destination for the next trip. We spend hours, sometimes days staring at the globe marveling every time how big it is and we think about how many countries we still want to visit more and more aware that making a choice is a really complicated undertaking.

Someone even turns the globe, closes his eyes and points his finger that irremediably goes to indicate a more or less indefinite point in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. No, this way of choosing a destination does not work.

How to choose the destination for the next trip?

One of the things that I really can never do is to plan and this is also reflected in the choice of the new journey. It happens to me that if I decide to want at all costs to decide where to go and within the loopof thinking which destination, I can hardly ever get out of it and this creates a crazy stress: so I avoid thinking and generally I abandon myself to ‘ inspiration . I know, maybe I read an article on the internet or I see a movie at the cinema and I spend the whole night with the fire inside without closing my eyes thinking about what I read or saw the first thing I do in the morning just jump out of bed is to attach me to the internet and look for the plane ticket. And if I find it goodbye, I’ll buy it. Then I think about the consequences and in the following days I go to pray my boss to allow me the holidays.

This happened to me when I looked for flights to Iran. I was at BIT 2015, a tourism fair that takes place every year in Milan and wandered among the various booths of the countries looking for that inspiration that did not reach me. Everywhere I saw photographs of beautiful places, but none that could turn on that particular spark until I came across the stand of Iran on which stood a large inscription: Iran, travel in ancient Persia . And there, stunned in the midst of thousands of people passing by, I fell in love.

Needless to say, the day after I had the tickets in my pocket and my heart was beating wildly .

Other times I happened to choose a destination because in some of my crazy raids in the world of the network I stumbled on some air tickets at exceptional prices , as for example in the case of Japan to 285 euros a / ro Brazil to 330, but I it happens quite often also because these tickets do not happen every day.

For the rest I admit to spending most of my free time thinking about which countries in the world I would like to visit, what I would like to see, which people I would like to meet, in short I am looking for a reason, something that looks like a suitable purpose occasion.

Meanwhile, one of the fundamental factors that should be taken into consideration is the time we have available. Once a person I met on the road told me that time is the most precious thing we have and how to blame him? This is why I believe that time is one of the fundamental factors in choosing the next destination: going to a place without having enough time to dedicate it does not do it justice and that’s exactly what I identify simply as the desire to put a flag on the map , right to say I was there .