Are you thinking of setting up a website all of your own?
Even though you share experiences and allow people to make comments, it’s up to you to take control of what happens there.
Setting up a website takes time:
It’s like building and decorating a house.
- What type of structure do you want? What type of building are you creating?
- How prominent do you want it to be? How do you plan to market it?
- How do you want your website to look like? What style: crazy fun or simple neat?
- What subject, niche or theme do you plan to promote or sell there?
- What activities will be allotted to the different ‘rooms’ (categories)?
The structure:
Write down what you intend to do, before actually starting.
- As to the theme: Choose something that you enjoy doing most. What is your hobby, skill or talent? Can you use that as your main niche?
- If you choose one niche theme, you’ll become sooner or later known for that particular subject.
- But ask yourself, do you have enough information on that subject to write on and on, over a very long period. Even you are your own boss, you’ll have to work day in and day out. In fact, many years, as long as you have that website! Do you think you can handle that?
- Then do some research: Who and how many will be interested in your topic? How can you help them? Do you know their needs and greatest desires?
- Have you any personal experience in that field? Have you got enough technology knowledge in that field?
How Big?
Do you plan to have a quiet little site? Or do you want fame and fortune?
How much time do you plan to spend?
- Writing blogs and managing your website?
- Doing research to keep things updated and real cool for your visitors, readers and followers.
- Keeping up with social media sites and making comments there?
Website design:
Complicated sites with lots of things scattered all over the pages, are confusing. Simple clear neat setups are much more appealing.
Images and photos must have low levels of pixels. People don’t want to wait a long time for things to down load.
Make a list of possible categories you intend to set up. This helps you get some idea how your main theme will play-out over the next few years at least.
Consumption strategies:
Concise statements and facts are easy and quick to read and comprehend. Eliminate unnecessary stuff.
- Shorten sentences where possible. Short sentences give the impress there is action taking place. Long drawn-out sentences are boring, and if too long loose meaning.
- Add bullets where possible. It makes the main points easy to read, clear, direct and more powerful. After doing this for a while, you’ll find excessive unnecessary trappings get eliminated naturally.
- Add humour and amusing stuff. Use jaunty jargon to lighten the atmosphere where possible. This makes reading your content fun. People won’t come back to your website if it’s boring!
- Having said that: How interesting is your subject and the way you write it? How dramatic and fascinating are you? Can you give your readers the adventure of their lives?
If you already have a website of your own:
What do you think has made your website so successful?
I'm sure everyone would like to know.
Why would bloggers need their own website anymore? The audience is already concentrated on various platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Steemit etc. You have way less resistence in terms of gathering an audience when publishing where people are already hanging out in stead of having to start off from scratch with a new website.
Hope to hear good arguments as to why one would start blogging on a self owned website?
@ronni
There are plenty more reasons for having your own website.
It may seem strange to you, but I have more incoming visitors going to my website from Reddit (abt 70 percent) than I have from Facebook or Twitter (abt 6 percent). And I seldom visit Reddit!
SEO - wise Steemit might be a stronger option compared to starting a new website/blog.
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Setting up a website is the easy part. But once you dive deep into the depths of it, you will find out that it is complicated. You have to take care of your SEO or Search Engine Optimization. This is how your keywords will rank on the first page of search engines. Monetizing it is also not easy. You need to have some good amount of traffic first.
Before creating your own website for a blog, make sure you target the right keywords for your articles. The best keywords are those which have low competition and high average monthly searches.
As for optimizing your site, there is on-page and off page SEO. On-page SEO refers to the keywords you are using in your articles, image optimization (titles of your images), and meta-tags, etc. While off page SEO mostly talks about backlinks. Backlinks are links to your site from another website. This is important because search engines think that your website has good content when there are lots of websites linking to your website. However, don't spam this since search engines knew it too.
Hope this can help people who want to start their own website. :)
Thanks for adding your advice. SEO (Search Engine Optimism) is important. And which keywords are trending, check out Google Trends.
I like useful and interesting posts. Thanks for this. I will resteem it as well.
Thanks. Most of my posts are about writing blogs and improving our websites: @artguru
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