This blog always goes by the name "Joost de Valk - SEO & webdesign blog", which kinda sucks of course... Why does it suck? Well: it's not brandable at all, and part of building a blog is building a brand. The "brand" in it right now is my name, which I don't mind of course, but I'd like to brand it a bit more. So what we need is a tagline, or a second name, or perhaps something else... I can't come up with anything, so I'm asking all my readers out there to be creative!
What's in it for you? Well, a blog wide link to start with, your name and link on the, to be created, about page, and the right to use it as a reference in your "portfolio".
So think out of the box, and "create" something nicely brandable for me!
Maybe you should just call it Joost (read: djoest ;-) or Joost SEO
Joost, Joost, he's our man, if he can't do it no one can!
Hehe, André, thx ;) it's not what I was looking for though :)
And Paul: exactly that is the reason for me to want to brand it differently ;)
Read Joost de Valk, rank better ;)
Hmm, "Read Joost de Valk, develop better" :P but nah guys, you can do better than that :)
"The “brand� in it right now is my name, which I don’t mind of course, but I’d like to brand it a bit more."
Joost de Valk â„¢ (you know, just a little TM symbol)
BTW, it's quite interesting that you ask for a tagline with which you can develop your brand a bit more, without saying what the brand is you would like to target :)
Hehe Erik-Jan, good point :) I'd like to target SEO's and webdevelopers out there who think of SEO when developing :)
Joost de Valk - Combines SEO and Development
Joost de Valk - Between SEO and Developent
Joost de Valk - SEO + Development = Great ROI
(I didn't say I was good at this, did I?)
At least they are better than the one I had to use at http://netters.nl/nieuws-op-tijd-rss: "Joost de Valk - Searching for a tagline"....
Hmm Erik-Jan, thx for trying :) but no, that's not it yet :)
Hmmmmmmmmm... I guess you should use the Dutchyness of your name to your advantage.
"Just Joost. And a lot of SEO." or on the same fiets "A little bit of Joost and a lot of SEO".
Good point... I like the line of thought :) Let me crunch on those for a bit :)
"Become Dutch. Rank better"
"Joost. web developer TV"
"Joost. Better search results, more traffic for you but only one to market"
Nah...
I'd name myself webgorilla and start tailranking!
Hehe, webgorilla, nah, Greg wouldn't like that :P
what about something with "valk" in english, and put a j from joost in front of it? Like jhawk, j-falcon or thefalcon - seo statagies. You could leave 'the' away: falcon seo stratagies & webdevelopment.
Some variations for a brand name:
jawk
jalcon
good luck! ;)
Take a web2.0 style of name
JstR
haha..
no to be serious, branding a complete name is difficult, you really should think changing your name to more like a company name!
Hey "Joost" is very web 2.0ish as Joost.com has proven :P
no joost.com isent web2.0 i mis the beta sign ;)
oeps wrong, its in the menu haha.
But still, to keep on-topic, i should choose a cool name just like your webdesign company ;-)
On the falcon theme:
"De Valk. A Sharp Eye for Search"
"Sharp Eye for Search"
"Sharp Eye on SEO"
On the development theme:
"Built to index"
"Built to rank"
"Build for search"
Build/t to rank... sounds good! let me think about it for a bit :)
Joost, the last comment dates May 4. Something came out of this? If not, here's my suggestion:
Falcon-i-SEO
(pronounce: falcon-eye-seejo -["bekt" geweldig, toch?])
-Jos:)
Well I'm slowly revamping the site, but still no good tagline... :) and sorry, but that one was a bit to cheesy ;)
'Cheesy' is good, isn't it? ;)
Falcon iSEO, I think it would be a good name for your blog, Joost..
Joost de Valk´s Spanking Ranking
Joost de Valk´s SEO Blog - Get Around To Be Found
Just Your Loose Joost - Gets You Hard SEO Juice.
Sorry for the late reply, is this still on?
I have one in mind:
Get Your Traffic Yoasted.
:P