It has been more than 6 years since independent blogs became popular. Although Carrot Fish has seen the rise of some new famous blogs, more and more passionate personal blogs have gradually disappeared from our sight.
Blogging is about sharing what you are good at, what you are professional about, or at least what you love. Whether you are a web designer, web developer, writer, online marketer, etc., then you must know what situations will cause the operation of an independent blog to fail, so as to avoid making the same mistakes when running a blog.
Whether you are a new blog owner or just starting your own blog, Carrot Fish highlights issues serious enough to threaten the success of your blog. Next, Carrot Fish will take you to analyze the things that need to be paid attention to during the operation of an independent blog.
1. Open your own blog website prematurely
In this open source Internet world, it is easy to build a blog site. Buy a domain name, purchase a space, download a WordPress blog program, and find a WordPress theme. Half a day is enough for you to build a blog site with beautiful pages, but you have a Audience? You might say, after a week, my blog has an average of 50 visitors per day. Yes, maybe Carrot Fish should say that this data is greater than zero, right?
Carrot Fish personally thinks that before opening your own blog website, you should first reserve a certain amount of original blog articles. Think about it, after the blog program is installed, the skeleton of your website has taken shape, but your meat? Which visitor will read it? Empty skeleton? Even if you bring a certain number of visitors through social media, commercial advertising, etc., what content do you use to retain your visitors? They are all your potential fans. Maybe after this incident, they will come Once will never come again. In fact, Carrot Fish’s Carrot Home Network has this problem. This time it can be regarded as a reflection for Carrot Fish.
2. “Introvert” blogs
Many new blog owners tend to only focus on their own blogs, not knowing whether their blogs will attract visitors to stay, and without proper marketing. Marketing your own blog is a pretty hefty task, and it requires more hours of work than writing the articles themselves. Carrot Fish summarizes a few small methods to help you attract enough visitors and increase the chances of your blog’s success:
1. Use social media. For example, Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo, Kaixin.com, etc.
2. Enable email subscription. Email marketing is very important, although the current usage rate of email in China is still relatively low!
3. Join online communities/forums. For small to medium blogs, I recommend joining independent blog directories. There are thousands of blogs out there that would be happy to help you increase the visibility of your blog. You can answer questions and share some valuable content.
4. Comments and responses. Continuing to exchange experiences with some small and medium-sized blog webmasters is the best way for you to quickly obtain other people's successful experiences.
3. Fear of learning new knowledge
If you have a blog, or are planning to start one, you should have at least a basic understanding of how blogging sites work. Maybe one day, your blog suddenly stops working just because of a wrong plug-in, and you don’t have to worry about it.
Your blog won’t go far if you don’t have the necessary knowledge about:
1. You don’t know how to adjust the design of your blog. Friends can’t help you adjust it for free all the time.
2. You don’t know how to install a blog plugin or theme.
3. You don’t know the operating procedures of Internet websites.
4. Afraid of trying new ideas.
From now on, you should start to learn some useful things, such as some professional knowledge related to your blog system.
Hehe, finally, Carrot Fish hopes that you will never have to ask why your blog failed. This article was originally published by Luobo Jujiayuan.com http://www.luoboju.com . Please indicate when reprinting.
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