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Today I noticed on my referers that I entered the Google.com top 100 for “seo blog” which is kind of interesting as I do not optimize for that and barely use the word “blog” on my journal at all ;-)
While checking the other blogs out there I found numerous blogs that bored me to death by calling themselves “SEO Blog” in their titles…
Well, do you really think you can stand out in such a “niche” by calling your blog “SEO Blog”? I doubt that.
So I collected the 7 funniest or strangest SEO blog names out of the top 100 to show you that a little more imagination is possible. I assumed that the HTML title or the URL is the blog title not the keyword stuffed parts of the sites:
- Linkrain SEO articles, remember the evergreen “it’s raining men”? I somehow have to think about that song in this case. Unfortunataly it seldom rains links, in most cases it takes hard work to get them.
- SEOdisco, well, as I mentioned above: “It’s raining links” let’s Google dance guys and gals!
- RagePank, kind of twisted this title, reminds me of the rage of loosing PageRank, but wasn’t this music called “punk“?
- Web or Dead, sounds a little like Cuban rhetoric or a mugger in a backstreet “gimme your web or you end up dead!”
- Beanstalk, well, I’m sorry for poking fun at real names, but have you ever pictured beans talking? Or far worse, a bean stalking you?
- S-O-S SEO, most people in Germany where it’s the #1 SEO blog would agree: SEO? Help! This is an emergency!
- SEOTier, this one is for the Germans, in Germany “Tier” means animal and indeed there is a cat picture on the front page. Hm, I always imagined the snake being the SEO animal.
OK, for those who still have difficulties finding a good name for their SEO blog, try “one of the top 10 not yet existing“. On the other hand: You just need 5 SEO blogs so invest your time in a real topic, like SEO 2.0 for instance ;-)
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Funny list, had never heard of ragepank ;)
P.S. Why are some of your links in different colours, just curious as to whether it meant something
Hello Glen, I see I was right concerning the snake ;-)
Visited links change their colors, which is a particular trait of the theme but maybe I can sell it as another dirty blogging trick, hehe.
Nice post! Some very funny names indeed!
Not sure what you mean by the snake comment?
I feel stupid regarding the link colour question now though ;)
Glen: What’s a viper? So your SEO animal is a … ;-)
Well, for the visited links thingy you are probably just too young. In HTML 2 it was standard!
Don’t get me wrong, I see it on the search engine’s daily, of course. Just never noticed it on a blog :)
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with being young! I still am at 33, hehe. How old are you?
Although I haven’t done anything with it, I did purchased www.yougotserped.com…
It’s probably a generational thing, but I still chuckle every time I visit SEO Speedwagon.
My 0.02 is that you are always better off identifying your blog by industry, rather than a catchy name. Branding is a different story altogether.
- OldSchool
www.OldSchoolSEO.com
I like my name, so it’s good to see at least one other person is getting a laugh out of it :)
The original concept was to avoid using the word “SEO” in the name, but still have something search related. RagePank is just a random word to most people, but to the target audience of internet marketers / web developers everyone gets that it’s a play on “PageRank” which has all kinds of good and bad connotations.
If you can make your target audience smile when they read your name for the first time, then it makes you stand out from the crowd that little bit more.
Yes, it’s a great choice, especially as it fools the anti-SEO lynch mob elegantly…
See link above ;-)
“Or far worse, a bean stalking you?”
Funniest.line.ever.
web or dead :) sounds like you do not have any other choice!
or Shakespeare alike
www.toSeoOrNotToSeo.com
I like SEODisco, it rimes ^^.
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