When I was choosing the name for this blog, I wanted some anonymity (my old blog name used our last name in the title) and I wanted something that encompassed me and my personality. I wanted something catchy and cute. Something that people would remember. And, I had a few ideas. But, what kept coming back to me was to name it something to do with how I was a people pleaser, always trying to make things look good, even when they weren’t. And, thus the name, “Faking Picture Perfect” was born.
Little did I know I ALSO needed to think like a sick, twisted, pedophile when naming my blog. Honestly, it never even crossed my mind. Because if I take a look at my search engine terms from the last 7 days, this is what I come up with (the number represents how many views on my site):
| she potty | 5 |
| super woman | 2 |
| love being a mom hate being a housewife | 2 |
| my faiking mom image | 2 |
| grope pics | 2 |
| southwest lost baggage stroller | 1 |
| helicopter parent horror stories | 1 |
| free faking girls | 1 |
| you know it’s been a good day when i didn’t have to unleash the flying monkeys | 1 |
| fast time faking picturs | 1 |
| small quiet toys kids | 1 |
| school girl faking image | 1 |
| southwest broke my bag how to get money back | 1 |
| dogs fakin with gals fotos | 1 |
| faking photo | 1 |
| you are my only hope love letters | 1 |
| i ‘m wont fakin picture | 1 |
| junior high school student girl nude | 1 |
| someecards driving me crazy | 1 |
| hot girl faking | 1 |
| boy an girl fakin love | 1 |
| fakingpictureperfect | 1 |
| i used to be a morning person | 1 |
| lost weight germaphobe | 1 |
| faking picture | 1 |
| wearing jacket backwards with arms inside | 1 |
| www.black.woman.fakin | 1 |
| dog (expletive) sexy moms bbw photos | 1 |
| mom housewife pictures | 1 |
| peeing at night yellowstone camping | 1 |
| i’m mormon what people think about me | 1 |
| www.perpect girls net | 1 |
| beatiful armpit | 1 |
| father faking girls pic | 1 |
| bog faking garl | 1 |
| housewi̇fe pi̇cturere | 1 |
| awesome and mean five | 1 |
| moms house wife pic | 1 |
| why are loads of weird people in my form | 1 |
| son fakin mam | 1 |
| stroller damaged southwest |
Did you notice a trend? A word to the wise, do NOT put the word faking in the title of your blog. Live and learn, right? And, “you know it’s been a good day when i didn’t have to unleash the flying monkeys” has got to be an all time favorite. Like, for real.
So, if you are getting ready to birth a new blog, my suggestion? Think how anything in the title could be turned into something dirty, and then do NOT name your blog that. This might be difficult for some of us to think like that, but if you don’t, they will find you.
I think naming your blog isn’t much different than naming your child. Think before you type, people.
Here are three quick tips that I used when naming my kids. It just might come in handy when naming your blog.
1. When you choose a name, say it like you detest the name. Put a word after it that rhymes, but makes fun of it. If you can’t come up with one then you’ve probably got a keeper. WHY DON’T PARENTS DO THIS? Repeat this step with your blog, except also remember that creepsters, weirdos, and pychos might look at innocent words and turn them into something not so innocent. Think like a weirdo.
2. Don’t make up a name that you’ve never heard of. It won’t sound cool. If you don’t know another single person on the planet with that name, it’s probably not a good one. Also, don’t give them a name that everyone has. Try to go somewhere in between. When naming your blog, don’t just make something up that no one has heard of. People won’t remember it, and then you are stuck with it. Forever. Do NOT use a blog name generator like this one. For some reason, when I tried it, it generated “booty perfection”. Hmmm. It might sound like a good idea in the moment, but it most likely is not.
3. When naming my kids, I wanted to use a family name, or something with significance. I did this when naming all three of my kids with their middle names. I think the same needs to be said for blogging. Give your blog a name you will be proud of, and not one that you will be slightly embarrassed about when you accidentally let it slip that you have a blog and a person you just met asks you, “What’s it called?” and you don’t want to say. If you don’t want to say it out loud, and with pride, it’s probably not a good name for your blog.
I don’t know, looking back, I think I failed to follow any of my own advice. Because, my blog is supposedly all about overcoming faking a picture perfect life, so it should be the anti-faking-picture-perfect blog or something. But, adding anti to the title sounds so negative.
I think I’m obsessing again. Time to end this rant.
Hope you all have a happy Friday and are NOT regretting the name of your blog today.
I’ve thought about this lately, because, apparently Boof is something sexual or I get a lot of strange google searches that lead to my blog. But when I made it I thought it was cute to be anonymous using funny nicknames from an inside joke. Now I wonder if I shouldn’t try to change the name to something more ‘me’ but I don’t even know how I would do that. 🙂
I have a whole list of blog names that didn’t make the cut! It was hard! I sort of re-invented this one from an old Project 365 blog I did (started but never finished). I always thought this one might be temporary, but it’s grown on me. Not sure how it could be made dirty, but I’m sure someone will think of something!
I was so lucky. I had never blogged or even read a blog up to the end of January this year. I knew I had to chose a name and it took about ten seconds to come up with it. As the days and weeks have passed I realize ignorance is bliss as if I knew then what I know now I would probably have taken forever to think of a name and it might not even have been effective.
I like your name as blogging for some seems to be “faking picture perfect”.
I think everyone gets sexual search results since I have read several posts about it. It’s not just the name of the blog it’s the blog post titles themselves that really dictate the hits. Sometimes I laugh and think how disappointed some of themy must be when they are looking for “sexy mom in diapers” and end up on my blog ha ha.
Hahaha! Yes they are finding disappointment here too! But some I think are l lingering a little too long!
I love the name of your blog!
The creepers always amaze me with the word groupings they will search on. I honestly did not consider that when I named mine, it didn’t even occur to me to think like the freaks.
Long time lurker coming out of the dark here- I’m sorry but ‘Beautiful Armpit’ just about brought me to tears! Hahahah. What sort of person must be searching that?
Don’t be a lurker! 🙂 glad the beautiful armpit brought you out!
HA! What a HILARIOUS group of search terms! The Mormon one? What?? You probably have a billion followers already, but I nominated you for a Liebster anyway cause I love your blog :).
~Frantic Mama
Thank you!!
I am new at blogging so may I ask what kind of disadvantages did you have previously (when blogging) by not being anonymous?
My son has a name no one I know has and I think he does not have an ugly name because of this.
I actually did a post on his name. I would love to share it with you maybe you will change your mind on rare names… HAHA
http://kukolina.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/zoard-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-his-name/
xoxo
Well, let me ask you this…in Hungary, is your son’s name rare? I think you have a lot of meaning behind your son’s name, and that is great! If you name your child a name that is rare, but has meaning to you, then I think that’s great. 🙂 I hope you will see that a lot of things I write on my blog are written in jest. You can’t always take everything I write so literal. Beautiful boy you have!
As far as the blog, I didn’t really have any disadvantages, but I just did not like the idea of my last name being in the title of the blog. I wanted something a little more generic I guess. Good luck with blogging!
Thank you so much! And yes, though we do not live in Hungary my son’s name is very unusual among the Hungarian names…
Here the Thai people have some difficulty pronouncing all our names but they are quite keen to call us by our names adding Khun (in front which is like saying Mister except that it is not gender-specific)
This made me laugh, wow. All those searches. Very scary!! Love your blog though, glad I named mine what I did, nothing can be weird about it. Atleast I don’t think so….