diff --git a/lib/site_template/_config.yml b/lib/site_template/_config.yml
index e23ad0fe..0f5a6088 100644
--- a/lib/site_template/_config.yml
+++ b/lib/site_template/_config.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
   line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
   Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
 baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
-url: "http://yourdomain.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
+url: "http://example.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
 twitter_username: jekyllrb
 github_username:  jekyll