We manage tens of thousands of RSS feeds for blogs and small businesses over at FeedBurner.com (note: if you have an RSS or Atom feed and you haven’t checked out FeedBurner, you should. If you haven’t checked us out in a while, you should definitely come back. We’ve changed a lot since our first mission statement of “Google for country folk”. Second note: when people say “we manage tens of thousands” it usually means they manage 10,001, but not in this case, in this case we're definitely higher than 10,103). Anyway, one of the things you see when you’re in this business are the titles of all these different blogs. So, here’s a tip from backstage: if you are going to try to be witty with your title, many of your initial ideas have already been used. You should title your blog “<my first name>’s Thoughts” long before you try something like “In Search of <my first name>” or “Life with <my first name>”. What about putting a famous slogan in your title and calling it something like “<my first name>’s caffeine free blog”?….yes, my friend, these were all used up well over a year ago. If you are now thinking to yourself “well, hell, all the good ideas are taken but I want to do something witty” then maybe you don’t really have that much to say, and instead of starting a blog maybe you should buy a puppy. On the other hand, perhaps you should just put "<my first name>’s blog” in the title and stop worrying so much about the title. The title is only funny once anyway (well, except for mine, which continues to delight and amuse thousands throughout the world and canada).
Never one to abandon the community, I now offer these 20 perfectly good and not yet taken witty blog titles. For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume your first name is something boring like Eric, Steve, Dick, or Matt….heck, let’s say it’s Jeff. Here are some great titles to get you started, Jeff:
1. Point. Shoot. Jeff
2. Symphony Number 3 in Jeff Minor (if your name is actually Jeff Minor or Jeff Major, read no further. You should go with this one).
3. What the Jeff ?!
4. Between Heaven and Hell….Jeff
5. Jefflicious
6. A Man Spelled Jeff
7. Build it, Sell it, Jeff it! (good title for an entrepreneur blog)
8. Hilarity, thy name is Jeff (good title for a comedy of manners blog)
9. Flora vs. Fauna
10. Books and those who drink them
11. Dive into Jeff (this is an inside joke for people who read xml blogs)
Well, ok, I didn’t get to 20, and things started heading south around number 3 there. The point is, don’t get too wrapped up in the blog title. There are no orginal ideas anyway. Enter a placeholder title like “Jeff’s blog” and get cracking on that first killer post! Remember, you didn’t just have toast for breakfast, you had an amazing breakfast experience!