Essential Tasks for New Website Owners in the First Month
After just two months of hard work on the internet, I'm starting to see some results! Below, I will introduce what I did during the first month of building my website.
1. Choosing the Right Program and an Elegant Template
The appearance of a website is like a woman's face - the more attractive and generous, the higher the recall rate, and the more people will remember you! Similarly, a neat template gives users a fresh feeling and attracts them to continue browsing other pages.
I believe that using any program is fine as long as it suits you and feels easy to use. Many people say Dedecms is simple, while others claim PHPcms is easier to use. These are all subjective factors that determine personal preference. I eventually chose Dedecms because its official forum has many templates that can be modified! Despite this, I still spent 200 yuan to purchase a template that I personally found beautiful and appropriate!
2. Moderate Content Collection
At the beginning, every website is essentially an empty shell without content. Therefore, especially for new websites, it’s important to make it look full of content so promotion becomes simpler and easier!
When collecting content, attention must be paid: never collect all the content from a specific section of one website, or search engines might think you're cheating. The correct approach is to find related sections on other websites via search engines (at least five), moderately collect some content from each site, and then choose random publishing (many collection tools support random publication). This way, the content from multiple websites is integrated together, making it less similar and improving rankings. Lastly, moderate pseudo-original content is necessary but should not overly disrupt user experience. Those methods that scramble article order or randomly select segments as titles are simply chaotic, even though they may be quickly indexed by search engines, they provide poor user experience!
3. Internal Link Construction
For internal linking, I believe focusing on three points is sufficient:
- Properly design the header navigation bar. Use drop-down menus for secondary categories or make the navigation area larger to display all categories. This allows users to quickly access the sections they want and find relevant information.
- Utilize the footer (footer) effectively. Many websites include their domain name and main keyword anchor text in the footer. This way, all pages give a vote to the main keyword, making optimization more manageable.
- Create two sitemaps: one for all the site's categories directly leading to category addresses; another also for all categories, but directly linking to RSS or XML files of category articles. Finally, create a full-site RSS file that automatically updates with each new article. Place these three files in either the topmost navigation or bottom navigation.
4. External Link Construction
1. Platforms like Baidu Zhidao, Baidu Tieba, SouSou WenWen, Sina Wenda, Youdao Yahoo etc. Be mindful of the quantity when posting on Baidu platforms - usually 1 to 3 posts per day per domain is sufficient.
2. Baidu link exchange platforms! Start from the first page and register 2 pages daily to fill out the information for exchanging friendly links. After about 15 days, most registrations will be completed. The advantage is that it's free, and you can easily exchange friendly links, with people actively seeking you out daily!
3. Blog mass distribution! Here's a tip: newly registered blogs need to be nurtured for 1 to 2 months before external links can be posted, otherwise Baidu won't index them. For those focused on Baidu, post on Sina; for Google, post on Tencent and 163, both being viable options. Other free blogs can also be used.
4. Utilizing Weibo! Both Baidu and Google now start indexing Weibo, and when searching for news, Sina Weibo often ranks well. This platform can also be utilized.
5. Sending classified information! This requires skill - write your website as if it were a company posting job advertisements, leaving QQ and email details. When others inquire, simply say that positions have been filled. Many recruitment websites rank very high.
6. Forwarding on webmaster forums! Daily repost A5 articles to major forums, leaving your own URL. Some say reprinted articles carry little weight. Indeed, this is true! But having one more link is better than none!
5. Submitting to Directory Listings
This needs personal summarization! There are quite a few directory listings that will index without requiring homepage links and carry good weight.
6. Posting One Original Article Daily
Original articles carry extremely high weight, there's no doubt about it. Persist in posting one original article daily, and gradually the weight will increase, also boosting the weight of collected articles!
Relevant Thematic Articles:
- Murder escapee impersonating a deceased person gets caught
- Eight-member theft gang steals over a hundred vehicles within a month
Relevant Thematic Articles:
- Brick chimney removal
- Robbing others' property through violent means
- Promotion techniques for Baidu Zhidao