We often say that looking for talents and seeing more of other people's successful experiences can help us avoid detours and get closer to success faster; looking more at other people's growth stories can give us some inspiration and let us do better.
On July 22, Admin5’s weekly Thursday chat event invited Mou Changqing to share his many years of Internet experience and stories, as well as his experience in online promotion, blog operation, etc. This article compiles some information from the chat and welcomes discussion.
Question: I have seen Mou Changqing’s articles on the A5 homepage, but I don’t know much about Mou Changqing. Can the guest briefly introduce yourself? Are you also a personal webmaster now?
Answer: I have been working, but I am also considered a personal webmaster. I have worked for Qihoo, Kuxun, Elong and other companies, and now I am working for an e-commerce website.
Question: I have seen many articles by Mou Changqing on the study of blog promotion and operation. What is the traffic and income of the blog www.muchangqing.com you currently operate?
Answer: The blog traffic is not large, with an average daily IP of about 2,000 and a PV of about 5,000. But basically there is no spam traffic, it is all users related to the webmaster, mainly users who want to know about online promotion. On the premise of not affecting the user experience, we accept monthly advertisements related to some webmaster user groups. Now the monthly advertising income is more than 2,000. Making money from blogging is not the main purpose.
Question: In the guest’s opinion, what qualities, skills, etc. are needed to be a grassroots webmaster?
Answer: You only need to be able to operate a computer proficiently, understand the basic knowledge of the Internet, and be able to read simple HTML. In addition, you are not afraid of hardship and are willing to learn. This is how I came about. I don’t understand technology, so I made websites using free templates. Later, when I was building a website with technical thresholds like go9go, I found technical friends to work with.
Question: What are some clever tips for building external links?
Answer: If you want to increase external links, you can use these methods 1: write soft articles 2, exchange a large number of friendly links. 3: Increase external links through some forum blogs. 4 The most direct way is to spend money to buy external links. For some specific case analysis, you can check out my blog.
Question: Guest, you are an expert in online promotion. Is online promotion an easy career? How do you do online promotion?
Answer: The threshold for online promotion is not high, but it is not easy to do well. I do online promotion mainly as a hobby. I started with the simplest forum promotion and gradually came into contact with other promotion methods. For my first two years of online promotion experience, you can read my two articles in detail on my blog, "Work Experience at the Age of 22" and "Work Experience at the Age of 23".
Question: The current domestic Internet environment is somewhat special. Is the impact of foreign space big?
Answer: In foreign spaces, domestic access is likely to be slow, and IP addresses may also be suddenly blocked and inaccessible. Of course, if you can find a foreign space that is fast and can be accessed stably all the time, the impact will not be big, and it will be almost the same as in China. You don’t have to worry if you put it abroad. If there is some minor problem with the website, the server will be shut down suddenly.
Question: I would like to ask if a signature like A5 is effective for the website? How to measure whether the signature will help the website?
Answer: A signature is an effective external link, just like leaving a hyperlink in a forum post has the same effect. But first, make sure that this external link is not called by JS, and it can be found in the source code. The hyperlinks of signatures and messages in some forums are called by JS, so they are invalid. It's just that such external links are always internal page links. Although they are helpful, the weight will not be too high. The effect will be more obvious if the homepage external links are exchanged through friendly links.
Question: Recently I saw a lot of people talking about you on the A5 forum. You also wrote an article to share your feelings about "being a human being is difficult". I would like to ask, when you do online promotion, when you write articles, the purpose of promotion and marketing is stronger. Or is the purpose of sharing information to help others stronger?
Answer: Before I started my own website, I had been writing online promotion articles for 2 years. When I write online promotion articles, the first thing is my own interests and hobbies. I will keep writing if I don’t promote my own website. Because the gains brought by writing articles are not enough to promote several of your own websites.
Question: Famous people must have more controversies. I feel that you don’t have many controversies. Many people support you and some criticize you. What do you think of these remarks? Will you change your way because of this?
Answer: Definitely not. After all, it is only a small number of people who will maliciously slander you first, and they are mainly concentrated on some webmasters. There are more friends who support my blogging. Once an article is written, it is impossible for everyone to use it. Some people often read my articles, but it is not helpful to them, so they will naturally be unhappy with me. This is the law of nature. I will definitely keep writing it
Question: Hello guest, why do you use a blog program to build your website? Why don't you choose to use a forum format? There are also single-version programs in the forum, and the user experience will be better.
Answer: 1: Because the blogging program is simple and can be used as soon as you upload it. 2: Blogs don’t need to post too much content. One article a day is very rich in content. If a forum posts several posts a day, it will look deserted. 3: It is too risky to run a forum now. It is easy for bad posts to appear, which will affect the survival of the website. Moreover, the forum also needs a special beian.
Question: I often see information about guests on Weibo. They are very active and have many fans. I would like to ask how you grew from 1 Weibo fan to so many now. Can you focus on the process of going from 1 fan to 500 fans?
Answer: If you are a webmaster who already has a certain reputation, you only need to be more active on Weibo and you will slowly gain the attention of 500 fans. If you are a completely unknown small webmaster, first of all, you should often publish your own original opinions on Weibo and share your experience in building a website to enrich the content quality of Weibo. In addition, if you actively follow 2,000 webmasters on Weibo, 500 webmasters will naturally follow you back.
Question: If my site is PR3, and I find a home page that is also PR3, another one with a home page of Pr6, and an inner page of Pr4, which one of these two sites has a better link effect for me?
Answer: If the other party is PR4’s second-level domain name channel homepage, you can give priority to changing it. If the other party is just an inner page showing friendly links, there is no need to change it. First of all, the weight of such internal pages is very low and does not help much in improving keywords. Therefore, I would rather find a homepage website that is also PR3 to exchange, and the effect will be much greater.
Question: I would like to ask if the PR value is related to the number of external links to GG? I heard that the PR was updated yesterday. Unfortunately, one of my small sites was not updated because I only have 23 external links for GG and more than 1,000 external links for BD. !
Answer: The PR value mainly depends on how many external links the website has. Generally, it is not complete through Google. It is recommended to use Yahoo external links. In addition, the PR value should not be updated on a large scale yet, but only on a small scale. So your website may have improved PR recently.
Question: Why did you choose Z-Blog system instead of WordPress for blogging? What advantages does Z-Blog have in terms of SEO?
Answer: Due to my own technical issues, I don’t know how to use PHP space, so I will only choose the ASP blog program. According to the online introduction, z-blog is the best one among the ASP blogging programs. It is said that the optimization is good, so I chose Z-Blog at the beginning.
Question: I feel that when doing promotion, business negotiation or business development skills are also very important, especially when doing external links. I don’t know when I can share my experience in this area.
Answer: Yes, this aspect is very important. Generally, it is best to understand the other party's website first, understand what the other party needs most, and then use the other party's needs to impress the other party. For example, changing friendly links, changing traffic, promoting navigation sites, etc. all require good business development capabilities. I once wanted to write about my experience in this area, but I just didn’t know how to summarize it.
Question: Now that there are Chinese character domain names, will you register Mou Changqing.com, Mou Changqing.China and other domain names? What do you think of Chinese character domain names?
Answer: With the fully spelled domain name of .com, I probably won’t even consider it. Someone once asked me to give muchangqing.cn and mouchangqing.com to me, but I didn’t want them either. I feel like it’s not very useful and I have to renew it every year. The same is true for Chinese character domain names. Users have not yet developed usage habits, so there is little point in registering them.
Question: The .cn domain name storm has not calmed down yet, and personal registration has not yet been opened. Assuming that .cn reopens for personal registration, are you optimistic about the .cn domain name? Do you think the .cn domain name will return to its former popularity and compete with .com?
Answer: If CN maintains the status quo, it will only get worse. If the policies can be the same as .com and the domain name price is cheaper than .com, there is still a chance for CN domain names to recover.
Question: I wonder if Brother Mou Changqing has any suggestions on servers? My website has been attacked recently and often cannot be opened. I don’t know where the space is better. Can you recommend it?
Answer: I don’t know much about server convenience. You can ask Mr. K if you have a chance. My website is also often attacked. Under normal circumstances, I try to choose a professional IDC to provide better protection. In addition, I need to make second-hand preparations. If one space fails, I will temporarily resolve it to another space.
Question: Many times, pictures of beautiful women or "title party" methods are used to attract viewers, but the traffic is only for a moment. Doing this every day is very tiring. I would like to ask Brother Mou if there is a more effective way!
Answer: When I first started building a website, I also relied on this method to do forum promotion. If I persisted every day, I could get 1-2 Wips. But it’s really tiring, it takes a lot of time, and the website doesn’t make much advertising money. So now I am working on industry websites steadily. Although the traffic is not large, the users are stable and the advertising is valuable.
Question: The original content of the website is reproduced by a website with high authority, but its search weight is higher than mine, and even mine is not included. Do you have any good ideas for this?
Answer: Usually when I have new articles, I post them on my blog first. There is a copyright notice and the source address of the original article at the bottom of the article. It will be forwarded elsewhere the next day. If the other party takes the initiative to repost your articles, this is unavoidable. You can only hope that the other party will retain your copyright statement. If the website often reprints your articles immediately but does not have a copyright statement, you can also communicate with the other webmaster first. , you can even use legal means to warn the other party. It’s really serious in the country, and there is still copyright protection.
Question: In the early days of building a website, most of our webmasters collect some content from others, and the collection may not be very good. I would like to ask Brother Mou, how should you promote your website in the early stages of building it? The webmaster has few connections and it is difficult to change links.
Answer: Regarding the promotion methods of the website, those are actually the methods. The most common ones are the best. Just make the most common ones the best. For example, if you say you don’t have the resources to do external links, this is just an excuse you give yourself. I once shared a story about a navigation website owner who had no resources. It took him one year to go from PR0 to PR7, and his external links were better than hao123. So don’t make excuses for yourself. The key depends on whether you want to do it, whether you have the intention, and whether you take the time to do it.
Question: I am a college student webmaster. If I can support myself one year before graduation, can I use the Internet to start a business? I have been working in the webmaster industry for more than a year now.
Answer: You continue to build websites and accumulate industry experience. It will definitely be no problem to find a job after graduation, so don’t worry about this problem. When I first came out to look for an Internet job, I basically had no experience at all. I just worked on my personal homepage at home for a month. I relied on this experience to apply for an Internet promotion job in a company.
Question: Is it better to work on the website part-time or full-time?
Answer: It is best to work part-time at the beginning and find a job first. Firstly, the income is stable and you don’t have to worry about life. Secondly, you can learn more knowledge at work. If you want to be successful in this business, you can't be afraid of hard work. Many webmasters do company work during the day and their own websites at night. Working two jobs at the same time will naturally lead to rapid progress.
Question: Hello, Mr. Mou, I have learned a lot from your articles. Thank you in advance. I feel that you are quite active on Weibo. I would like to ask a digression, what kind of personality do you have in reality? Okay? answer.
Answer: I was considered a relatively introverted person when I was young. After working, I have been doing online promotion work and often interact with people. Therefore, I am more active online. I generally don’t have much to say to strangers offline, but I still have interesting topics to talk about with my colleagues. I can’t even explain what kind of personality I have.
Question: Many keywords are ranked 11th on Baidu. Please help me interpret them. Thank you.
Answer: I often encounter this problem on my website, but I haven’t specifically studied how to solve it. Usually I don't care, I continue to concentrate on the content of the website and add high-quality external links. Gradually the 11-bit phenomenon disappears.
Question: What is the biggest difficulty you have encountered so far in the Internet business? How did you get along the way? Some webmasters give up and stop building websites if they fail for a while. What do you think of this problem?
Answer: Because I have always had a job, I have no difficulty in surviving. Making a website is just a hobby at the beginning. Don’t think about making a lot of money from the beginning. As long as your mentality is right, you can stick to it. It is not recommended that newcomers and friends should work first and use their spare time to learn how to make websites. When you can support yourself by building a website, you can then consider becoming an independent personal webmaster.
Question: Brother Mou Changqing, what do you think is your greatest advantage (doing online promotion or being a personal webmaster)?
Answer: Don’t be afraid of hardship and have the patience to do simple and tedious things. In addition, what I am best at is data analysis. When I do online promotion and write articles, they are mainly based on my own data analysis.
Question: Brother Mou Changqing, people are generally willing to endure hardship, but I don’t know if it’s worth the hardship. Just like being a webmaster, everyone wants to use the simplest method or the fastest way to achieve success. What do you think of this problem? ?
Answer: There is definitely no shortcut to being a webmaster, and you cannot do illegal things. It’s best to take it one step at a time. It is unrealistic for everyone to make money so easily. Success is reserved for those who are prepared and can endure hardships. If you want to feel the pleasure of making money quickly, it is easy to just create a few websites, and if the PR value reaches 2 or 3, you can make some money by selling links.
Question: It seems that Mou Changqing’s A5 is quite popular. There are many people participating in the forum. Mou Changqing has been working on the Internet for many years and has rich experience. There are many grassroots webmasters now, but many of them still can’t find them. When I arrived at the door, I was confused and wanted to ask Mou Changqing to give practical advice to the grassroots.
Answer: My requirement for myself is to improve by 1% every day. As long as my experience and income keep increasing. Whatever you do, you will get rewards if you pay for it. When building a website and doing online promotion, remember these five words: "see more and practice more".
The secret to success is different for everyone. Reading more can open your horizons; practicing more can verify the accumulated experience and gain true knowledge through practice; often summarizing past experiences can avoid detours and get closer to success. I hope the above chat information can inspire you, and please continue to pay attention to the A5 chat event every Thursday at 3-4pm. (Text/Mengjiang)
For more information shared by Banchao, you can also check out the post. Post address: http://bbs.admin5.com/thread-1877503-1-3.html