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See more Knowledgebase exported from Denny: #denny-knowledgebase
- If you need it quite often, people in the same field may also need it
- Live knowledge will grow and evolve.
Let’s say you want to write a blog post of “tmux”.
- Search and explore all popular Github repos related to “tmux”.
- Understand their beautify and strengths, then write a blog post.
- If necessary, start your own github repo about “tmux”.
Explore new things, and introduce them in a simple and easy language
| Stage | Summary | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Think before you write! | Choose Title. It matters! |
| Ask questions in SNS | Anticipate Community (LinkedIn, slack, v2ex, etc) | |
| Google related pages (Get SEO Keywords) | Keywords in Summary | |
| 2 | Write Post | |
| 3 | Improve SEO and writing by Google posts | |
| Share to SNS | ||
| Reply related discussion | ||
| 4 | Keep polishing old posts |
Different types:
- Benefit-driven subject lines: What’s in it for me?
- Curiosity-driven subject lines
More examples:
- Who Else Wants [a Higher Paying Job]?
- The Secret of [Getting Your Home Loan Approved]
- Here is a Method That is Helping [Bloggers] To [Write Better Post Titles]
- Little Known Ways to [Lose Weight Quickly and Safely]
- Get Rid of [Your Unproductive Work Habits] Once and For All
- Here’s a Quick Way to [Backup Your Hard Drive]
- Now You Can [Quit Your Job] and [Make Even More Money]
Reading reading: link
- People are impatient
You only have 3-5 seconds to convince people to keep reading. Use signal words: help people to scan through your text
- Visualize Your Audience And Use Case, And “Talk” To Them.
I talk to the audience/customers virtually. This would help to improve engaging people.
- Avoid using vague or fuzzy statement.
People like meaningful details.
- Make the reading fluid.
If you can’t deliver your thinking smoothly. People will simply leave. They don’t even bother to leave you a complain.
- Use of transition words
show readers you are summarizing, comparing or concluding something.
You may not believe that. But show me wrong, if you can.
- Focus on your quality, instead of spreading to a bigger audience.
Bring crappy resource to a bigger audience? Do you really think it’s a good thing, instead of a bad thing?
- Improve interlinks, thus people read more posts in your blog
- Your Friends To Review Your New Posts.
You should have friends working in the same field. If your new doesn’t serve your friends well, it won’t work well for others.
- Leave comments to similar blogs
The main objective is not about bringing more traffic to your blog. It’s about learning things from other bloggers, and make friends with them.
You’re not competitors. You help each other to grow stronger and do better.
- If your posts don’t connvince people taking actions, your influence is low to the audience.
- Ask people to take small actions.
Blogging is about convincing. Make people take actions.
Ask people:
- Try your advice in 5 minutes
- Follow you in SNS(LinkedIn, GitHub, etc)
- Send you private messages
- Share with their friends
- Leave you comments
Watch and observe others in the same field first.
- TODO
- Google Crawl -> Crawl Errors: Link
- The blog should loads within 3 seconds: link
- Send them thank-you note
- Understand what drives them to do that
Yes, in blogging world, quantity over quality. But don’t forget to re-activate your own posts.
- wp-config.php: Changing The Site URL
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');
- wordpress avoid malicious access wp-login.php, xmlrpc.php, wp-cron.php
- Useful tools
| Tool | Link |
|---|---|
| Google pagespeed | https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ |
| Test from 24 cities | https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx |
| webpagetest | https://www.webpagetest.org |
- Disable all non-critical plugins
Principle:
- An infographic is like a good story. Read more: here
- Many infographics focus on presenting data.
- Your infographic’s headline is extremely important.
- Don’t choose something generically popular, rather than specifically relevant to your audience.
- Watch out: The words in the some infographic may become too small to read easily.
- Keep it focused.
Infographics are not attempts to randomly assemble all the data you can compile. Instead, an infographic is intended to drive a single, focused point.
Use gimp: Color to Alfa. See more here.
http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com
https://www.tumblr.com/explore/gifs https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/funny-gif
http://giphy.com/search/funny-gif https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/
Principle:
- Prefer Active Voice over passive voice: avoid “to be” + “ed”
- Don’t use “WE, I” too often. Avoid use I, me
- Five powerful words: discover，guarantee, health, result, you
- start a blog post
In this article I’m going to show you: Thinking that you’d like to start a blog this year? This post is for you! Try to solve this.
As always, please share if you enjoy it!
Want to ask for comments and sharing:
http://www.blogtyrant.com/get-more-email-subscribers/ As always, I’ve probably forgot a lot of really cool things. Leave a comment down below if you have any effective strategies you’d like to share. Oh, and please give this a share if you have a second cos it took a while to put together!
- Review my blog post
XXX, could you spare me a few minutes to review my new blog post? https://www.dennyzhang.com/docker_monitor I want to listen to your feedback, before I publish it. If you're too busy for this, surely I can understand. Thanks!
XXX, glad to hear that! I like to discuss DevOps questions in Linkedin, and blogging. Please be my friend, and join us in the discussions!
| Type of relation | Examples of transition words |
|---|---|
| enumerate | and, first of all, also, another, furthermore, finally, in addition |
| cause | because, so, due to, while, since, therefore |
| comparison/ contrast | same, less, rather, while, yet, opposite, much as, either |
| conclusion | as a result, hence, consequently, therefore, in conclusion |
| fuzzy signals | seems like, maybe, probably, almost |
| emphasis | most of all, most noteworthy, especially relevant |
- We apologize for any confusion about …
If someone mentions your website on their blog, thank that blogger in the comments of the post and send them a thank you note. You can monitor any mentions of your blog using Google Alerts, Technorati, and Blogpulse.
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger. Amazon purchase Link.
- 16 Top Tips from Blogging Experts for Beginners
- 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
- The easiest posts to write for a programming blog
- 10 Things You Need to Do After You Publish Your Blog Post
- TODO
License: Code is licensed under MIT License.
