The goal of this article is to get more people to write interesting blogs.

What are the benefits of blogging?

Blogging slows down time. Writing seven blog posts a week, as opposed to eating and waiting to die for a week, is definitely eating and waiting to die faster.

Blogging can resist mental rigidity. The process of blogging requires your brain to think for a long time, and the brain that thinks deeply is more flexible than the brain that has been constantly swiping.

Blogging allows people not to indulge in negative emotions. As an expression of emotions, writing can relieve pressure from bad emotions

Blogging is a way to keep learning and improving. Ask canal that clear so? In order to have a source of life, blogging is output, and output requires input, input of new knowledge, lifelong learning, to help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Blogging can make people think more carefully and win more arguments; The article needs logic, people who write things, list 123 arguments for the argument is basic exercise, both sides quarrel, if the strength is close, often speak faster people win, in the face of a mouth faster than the brain opponent, if you can list 3 arguments, you can easily KO opponents with logic

Blogging can bring all kinds of economic benefits; New Oriental one year annual meeting, there is a line of lyrics to do the work but write PPT, good PPT, is often copy directly hit the heart, do the same amount of work, year-end summary write good, will certainly be more economic benefits, blog write some better, but also through the flow of Google Adsense[1] advertising fees.

Recommend blogging tools

It is highly recommended to use Markdown[2] for creation. Markdown is pure text with good SEO and can be easily indexed by search engines. It can also simplify typesetting and save time

Typora[3] is recommended if you like to use computer codewords. The codeword experience is excellent, cross-platform, and it is the most comfortable codeword tool for Windows system. If you are macOS, and pursue the ultimate codeword experience, and you are not short of money, you can try paid Ulysses[4]

If you like to use mobile code words, Hammer Note [5] is a good choice. However, the Markdown syntax supported by Hammer Note in Markdown mode is not complete. It is only suitable for pure code words without inserting pictures, otherwise it will be very troublesome to export Markdown to other platforms.

If you are too lazy to bother, you can directly choose the code word in The Book [6], although the text in the book is better than the water, but the editor is very easy to use, support Markdown, and support PC and mobile side synchronization.

If you are willing to struggle, I recommend Discourse[7] to be built by yourself. It can provide complete Markdown for Discourse[7]. There is no need to download a mobile App.

Where does the topic come from?

Long-term topic selection can find their own areas of expertise, such as photography, Windows, Chrome, programming, Linux practical introductory tutorial, long-term fitness experience sharing, ball sports skills, sports equipment selection, good things to recommend… Long-term topic can be serialized, with Github warehouse for management, a topic a warehouse, there is new content, update a version, the article hosted to Github warehouse readme. md, the search engine will automatically bring you continuous quality SEO traffic.

Short-term topic selection can obtain the latest hot information of the whole network through today’s hot list [8]

Domain name and server selection

Independent blog can not buy a server, but must buy a domain name, if you want to put on record, buy.com domain name [9] is the least pit, some niche domain name is very cheap and cool, but can not put on record in China, if not, Baidu statistics, public platform, wechat small program API access can not be used.

Independent blogs need servers to store web Pages. Github Pages[10] are completely free, unlimited traffic, unlimited space, global CDN, and can bind their own domain name. However, due to the special network environment in China, the page access speed of Github Pages is very slow, and pictures are most likely to be inaccessible.

If you want to improve the speed of blog access, you should buy domestic hosts, such as Ali Cloud, Huawei cloud and Tencent Cloud. It is recommended to buy full-featured virtual host VPS products [11], which have complete permissions and can install various database services, Nginx gateway, WordPress website building procedures. Discourse forum program, netease Cloud unlock gray playlist service program, PM2 script daemon service, FRP Intranet penetration service, self-built map bed service… Playability and freedom are extremely high.

Record about personal website

Use domestic host, want to go put on record flow, put on record provides service by server manufacturer, it is to buy the server of a year commonly, the manufacturer provides put on record service for you, put on record can be done roughly two weeks, put on record besides 80 and 443 port access is restricted, other function is not affected.

I have put on record in Ali cloud and Tencent cloud, Ali cloud process is more smooth.

Domain name record is bound to host manufacturers, such as domain name v2FY.com resolved to Tencent and server, and completed the record, if you want to migrate to Ali cloud, need to re-record, one thing is, this rule is pit, if you do not want to repeatedly go record process, can not change cloud service vendors, do not change.

How to build a website?

The program is divided into two categories, static program and dynamic program

Static website programs include Hexo[12], Hugo[13], Jekyll [14], etc., whose principle is to convert Markdown into HTML pages, and docsify, a static website building program with full front-end rendering, which benefits from eliminating rendering steps at the cost of sacrificing some SEO points.

Dynamic website building program recommended WordPress[15], free and rich in plug-ins, with nearly 20 years of technical accumulation, 42% of the world’s websites are built on WordPress, with rich plug-ins and ready-made solutions for all aspects of the website. Choosing WordPress, you can build a stable and reliable blog website without writing a line of code.

If you want to build a community and recommend Discourse, Discourse is touted as open source community for the next 10 years. It is free and open source. It has excellent experience on BOTH PC and mobile terminals, and supports automatic saving of drafts. Do you need to reload the page to pull the latest content?

How to promote your blog?

At the beginning of the small website is generally no traffic, we can take the initiative to submit to Google Console [16], Baidu search platform [17], Bing website administrator [18], so that the mainstream search engine, will include our website

Using content platform drainage, WeChat public number at the bottom of each article to read the original, making personal page custom website links, Jane books at the bottom of the manual leave a read the original article, also similar to zhihu, bi and bi li can leave a your website on the bottom of the article of the original links, these are all very good free publicity drainage way, Keep churning out great content, and the content gods will look twice at you…

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The resources

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Google Adsense: www.google.com/adsense/sta…

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Markdown: www.runoob.com/markdown/md…

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Typora: typora.io/

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Ulysses: ulysses.app/

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Hammer note: yun.smartisan.com/#/notes

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Jane: jianshu.com

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The Discourse: github.com/discourse/d…

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Today: Tohub.Today

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Buy.com domain name: wanwang.aliyun.com/

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Github Pages: pages.github.com/

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VPS products: common-buy.aliyun.com/?commodityC…

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Hexo: hexo.io/zh-cn/

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Hugo: gohugo.io/

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jekyll: jekyllrb.com/

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WordPress: wordpress.org/download/

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Google the console: search.google.com/search-cons…

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Baidu search platform: ziyuan.baidu.com/linksubmit/…

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Bing webmaster: www.bing.com/webmasters/…

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