In 2002, I started to enter the Internet world after reading Zhu Zhiqiang's small series of works. At that time, applying for an email address was very exciting. I also helped my close friends to apply for an email address with the suffix of name + 001001. My friends are now They still use the emails I registered for them. At that time, I thought email addresses ending in numbers were cool, but I didn’t know what a domain name was. If I invested in digital domain names in 2002, it wouldn’t be too late. After I went to college, I started to build my own personal website. It was very simple. I used HTML to create several hyperlink pages, applied for a .com top-level domain name, and assigned a second-level domain name to each page. I told my classmates about my website everywhere. Just like a person on the Internet. I worked part-time during my four years in college, but I never considered using a computer to make money online.
I was admitted to graduate school in 2006 and met my current girlfriend. Since one is in Xi'an and the other is in Zhenjiang, it is not easy to meet. One is because of the distance, and the other is because the travel expenses are too expensive. Although the problem of tuition fees for a publicly funded graduate student was solved, and the monthly subsidy from the state was enough for living expenses, in order to be able to meet my girlfriend a few more times, I had to have new financial sources. That’s when I started to consider using the website to make money. At first, because a sports live broadcast website built with free space had relatively large traffic, I used the second-level domain name of the free space. I checked the Alexa ranking and traffic source, and my site was among the top three contributors to the free space top-level domain name. . But at that time, I had just started to make money online, and I didn’t know how to make money through advertising. I saw Google Adsense by chance, so I applied for an account. Since Google was focusing on promoting Firefox at that time, it cost only $0.1 to install one, so I started live streaming. The page misled users to install the Firefox browser, and since the first video was quite popular at that time, I also included the code. At that time, I didn’t even know what SEO was. There was only one way to promote my website. When there were live broadcasts of games, I vigorously promoted which sports events my website could live broadcast on Tieba. In this way, when the traffic was the most in a day, it could reach IP20,000+. , but later due to Baidu’s crackdown on Tieba advertising, the traffic began to decline. In this way, I earned 8,000 from my free website, which paid for the travel expenses to see my girlfriend every month. In 2008, a friend who ran a live streaming site received a letter from a lawyer from the NBA, telling him to stop infringement or he would be sued. He later sold the site for 8,000 yuan, which is when I also sold my site. dropped.
Because I tasted the benefits of making money online, I started to do e-commerce in the second half of 2008. Since my family sells PTFE products, and my uncles at home have factories, I started to build a PTFE website. I was responsible for taking on business online, and my parents helped with production and delivery. I was busy with my graduation project in early 2009, doing experiments all day long, and didn't take care of it much. By the time I graduated, I had earned almost 20,000 yuan. At that time, the two PTFE websites I had were ranked first and second in Baidu keyword rankings. The only SEO technique I used was keyword stacking. However, Baidu later began to crack down on this area. . During this period, I met a salesperson from an SEO company online and asked me to help him create a one-way link to the website of a company they were responsible for promoting. He could let the company he owned place advertisements on my website, so I I believed him, and a month later, his snapshot website from a year ago ranked in the top ten of Baidu. However, my website was completely messed up, and I did not receive the advertising he promised. So I would like to advise everyone, don’t trust other people’s promises too easily on the Internet, and it is very dangerous to have a one-way link to an unweighted site, including selling links. Anyway, at that time, I graduated.
In August 2009, the day after my birthday, I went to work at my current company. With my first job, I no longer had to make money online just to earn round trip expenses. Thinking about those days when I was crazy about posting replies and upvoting posts on Tieba, it was really an unforgettable experience. However, because of my hobby, I have never given up making websites. Although the two K-ed websites have still not recovered, as an industry communication platform, old customers come to visit every day, and I have always insisted on updating it every day. Now.
After I started working, I basically didn’t make any money from the website anymore, but I spent a lot of money on domain name fees, space fees, and online promotion fees. But it was also during this year that I really learned a lot of Internet knowledge, from HTML to PHP, ASP, ASPX, MYSQL, MSSQL, SEO, Internet marketing, etc., and also made many new friends.
In 2010, I built two websites. One is a vertical industry navigation station, China PTFE Yellow Pages. It is different from ordinary navigation stations. I have made some innovations and carried out some promotions. The results will be known in half a year. The other site is my Taobao website. This site took me almost half a month to optimize, using almost all the network optimization knowledge I have learned over the years. I was originally planning to release it in two days, but I saw traffic today. There is already traffic in the statistics, and it turns out it is from Google. I checked Google’s inclusion status and found that Google has included 4,000 pages in one breath without releasing external links. I really admire Google’s spiders. You can take a look at my "Aitao.com: http://www.aaatao.com ". It does look like a very ordinary Taobao site, but it is a site that I spent a lot of time optimizing. But experts, don't be ridiculous. , in the coming days I will gradually carry out some promotion. If it is effective, in the next issue I will explain in detail the optimization of Taobao customers and the inside story of those Taobao customer templates that are sold for free or at low prices.
Recently, I read a passage on Tuwang’s WeChat account: “In 2006, I mentioned that I was the webmaster, and others thought that I opened an online store selling clothes and small home appliances. In 2007, I mentioned that I was the webmaster, and others said that I was the webmaster. CN The domain name Yuan Yuan was mentioned as a webmaster in 2008 and was thought of as someone who wrote a blog. In 2009, he was mentioned as a webmaster. In 2009, he was thought to be a webmaster who opened a forum to make money online. In 10 years, he was mentioned as a webmaster. People say: This kid can’t find a job and is starting a business!” I also summarize the past 8 years that I have gone through. In 2002, I was not as visionary as Cai Wensheng in investing in domain names. From 2002 to 2006, I was not as visionary as the experts who made a lot of money by being the first batch of Google Adsense experimenters. When Internet marketing was popular from 2006 to 2009, I didn’t learn SEO and promotion well, and I’m still a beginner until now. If I didn’t hurry up in 2010, I might have always been a catch-up on the Internet. Building a website actually requires discernment, and blindly following the trend will only lead to losing oneself. There is no shortage of creativity on the Internet. Turn your creativity into action and you will succeed. Working as a website is boring and lonely, but if you persevere, you will have a wife, a house, and a BMW.
Finally, let me mention my new Taobao website, Aitao.com: http://www.aaatao.com . If there are shopping websites that are willing to link, you can add me. QQ: 452756694. Please indicate the source for reprinting.
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