At first glance, this title seems quite attractive~ Haha, a part-time webmaster like me really has to achieve certain gains before he dares to write this title.
I have been working as a webmaster for eight or nine years, but I only started doing it last year. In summary, I have come up with three steps to make money by running a website:
Step One: Ignorant Followers of the Trend
I am a graphic designer. At the beginning, I just wanted to get some private work through the website to make some money. I took it for granted that having a website would bring business to my door. So I thought of a more creative domain name and registered com, net, cn, and com.cn in one go. Since there is no concept of keywords, the domain name has nothing to do with design, so I registered i-oo.com just to be unique. At that time, there was no knowledge about regular updates, external links, SEO... I just met acquaintances and told me that I have a website, please click more. As for the content, it is nothing more than putting some pictures of your works, putting some resumes and so on. If you really don’t invest anything into the website, the website will not bring you any income. As time went by, I forgot about it and just kept those four domain names.
From having a domain name to having a website to telling everyone I meet, to paying the annual domain name fee without any pain at all, this process took about 4 years. Gradually I came to understand that having a website is just a website, it does not mean there is a way to make money.
Step Two: For Interested Pranksters
Suddenly, blogs were blooming everywhere. Celebrities were busy opening blogs, the media were busy promoting blogs, and major portals were busy building blogs. It’s so fresh. I think it’s time to have my own blog. So I built my own independent blog and posted a few words every day. I always want to attract some attention, and I also dream of having the number of hits like Lao Xu’s atomic bomb explosion. Since there is no information to reveal and no unique opinions to share, my blog with an independent domain name is really "independent" and no one reads it ~ After all, I am not willing to be alone, because at that time a buddy The company has enough space and bandwidth for me to use at will. So I ambitiously downloaded a blogging program to provide blogs for others and got started. At this time, I only knew about building a website, and I also started to post some promotional posts in Tieba and forums, and find some friendly links to promote it.
At the beginning, I registered a vest to make my blog website popular, and slowly, I actually tricked some people into coming. Since they don’t have their own special services, these people gradually become “girts” who just make up the numbers. As long as they tirelessly publish blog posts, they don’t expect the blog to achieve anything. However, some spam messages also visited my website tirelessly. The annoying spam messages slowly made me numb, and I forgot about them as I deleted them. But spam messages are really scary and have caused me a lot of trouble. The sudden anti-pornography campaign on the Internet regarded my website as the first pornographic and obscene website in our province at that time. The culprit was the spam messages, because the spam messages contained keywords that promoted pornography, and because there was no real pornography in the local area. Website, my website was caught. Since I was caught trying to make up for it, the Internet Supervision Department asked me to delete the spam messages and let it go. However, the major local media reported it and enjoyed it.
Although there was no real loss, the buddy who provided me with space and loan was unlucky and lost his job because of this matter. Hey~ It’s a blow after all. From finally finding some direction, to half-dead operation, to being persecuted by Internet traps~ My second step has been taken. Building a website is like planting a tree. You take care of the fruits and the fruits you love. The result of reasoning is completely different, and it is very likely to produce a bitter fruit.
Step Three: Be a calm doer
I had done some memorizing before, but my free space and bandwidth were gone, and I even lost my job~ This is the serious situation for small individual webmasters like us. After calming down and thinking about it, I realized that there was no chance of making money through the website, and it was impossible to expand my influence. Otherwise, just use the website to do something you like in a disciplined manner.
Before doing it, browse the Internet without thinking to see what interests you and what you can do with your hobbies in a short period of time. Since I am an optimistic person, I am more interested in funny things, weird things, and interesting things, so I like to read websites full of weird content. Gradually, I discovered that foreign websites similar to weird ones are more attractive, while domestic similar websites are only very old reprints and very slow. So I decided to create a website dedicated to discovering new things.
Once you have a direction, it’s time to get started. Let’s think of a name first. Since the domain name i-oo.com is not associated with freshness, we decided to make the name fresher. Finally, we chose a name that is homophonic for “rarely popular”. Haha, not bad, providing people with fresh information. It’s easy to remember! Next, I chose a program. I searched for a few relatively large cms on the Internet. I thought it was too complicated and too busy for one person, so I decided to go the blog route, and finally chose zblog. Now that you have a name and a program, let’s start. Due to the severe domestic Internet situation I experienced, I decided to make my home abroad. It was my first time to use a foreign space. I found a website with a good reputation online and was said to be the largest host domain name provider in the world. When I registered, I found that besides Apart from the difficulty in understanding English, everything else is good. The price, access speed, and operation speed are all good~ (I strongly recommend using a foreign host here. After all, stability is an important magic weapon for a successful website). After uploading and adjusting the program, my shop is now open!!
When I first started, I enriched the content and reposted it from foreign websites. But I didn’t just repost it, it was fresh reposting. Every night, I would go to the few foreign websites I had collected and browse the ones I liked. Of course, it’s impossible to copy something new. It has to be something of my own. So I added my own to each reposted photo album. I only have my own commentary text, so it’s my unique and original article. , in the first month I maintained an update rate of 5 articles a day, and then logged in to my domain name in major searches. Increasing external links is also a huge workload in the early stage. Posting in the forum will be deleted quickly, so I have posted messages soliciting links to many independent blogs, and at the same time, I have brought some information from my own website. The general format is that few people are looking forward to exchanging friendly links with you, and then attach a description of the website. Of course, a website that has just started will not have many people to exchange with you. During your PR1, many messages will disappear. However, these webmasters will not delete the messages, and the links will remain there. Haha, I have brought more than 100 IP traffic by leaving comments on a well-known independent blog in China.
I updated it every day and left messages every day for two months. Google’s PR was updated. My website’s PR reached 3 in two appointments, with a fixed traffic of more than 100. For an independent blog, such results are not bad. But the traffic was still low, so I registered with some domestic blog providers with high authority, reprinted some articles from my own website, and then wrote that the reprint was from few people, which also brought a lot of traffic. Of course, I also found a place that can provide traffic very well, and that is the dig website. Nowadays, there are many dig websites in China, and the traffic is gradually increasing. I go to the company every morning to go to the dig website and recommend a few articles that were updated the day before. If they are adopted, the traffic will increase today. Received more than 2,000 IP traffic per day. I'm so happy~~Haha, more and more people are browsing slowly, and it's faster to register for the advertising alliance and get certified~ I can also earn a few dollars a day, which is only a few hundred dollars a year, which is not enough to pay for a domain name. Keep working hard, the content of the website has been enriched, and the update rate has been maintained at one to two articles per day, and there has been a regular readership. Eight months after it was officially launched, my PR has reached 4, which is not bad. It’s really difficult to stick to it for 8 months. I was very anxious when I saw the traffic curve going down. Fortunately, I got a little surprise from time to time. I was suddenly included in Amazon and found the friendly link of pr6. There are Advertisers look for buying links. Haha, the current website traffic remains at around 300, and there are advertising spaces for sale on Taobao. Buyers will come looking for it. I can earn more than 100 yuan per month. If you calculate this, you can have more than 1,000 yuan a year. revenue, and this number is increasing steadily. Now I spend more than an hour every day updating the website, and then the annual domain name space money comes out~ Haha, I update the website every day while browsing my favorite content, why not do it.
The most important thing when making a website is your own interest. Focus on your own interests, make updating a habit, and don't let traffic influence it.
I would like to declare that this article was originally written by Shan Weirenzhi. Please indicate the source when reprinting it. If there are like-minded people, please contact me. The small website http://www.i-oo.com hopes that fellow webmasters and friends can give me some advice.
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