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Blogging about programming gets more and more popular. Is it hard to begin writing? See for yourself.
For the past year I have observed blogging trends. I’ll share with you my research. You can draw your own conclusions.
Be careful! This is powerful knowledge. Please use it carefully and remember about this article when you’ll get to the top.
Tips to become fulfilled blogger:
If you complete these 4 steps I promise you — you’ll be ready to continue your journey to constantly getting 100k monthly views on your articles.
Important! Make sure your site is published (for example on localhost) and ping localhost responds with something like this:
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms
Blog responds pretty fast. It means we did optimization part right. Site is ready and technical part is done.
If you didn’t complete these steps and you need some help - feel free to use these tips to get first part of our preparations done:
Technical topic which has already been covered: PHP — create CRUD application with MySQL
Long tutorial that no one will read: Master Angular 3 in 100 hours
WordPress download link: https://wordpress.org/download/
If you have naming problem with your blog, you can choose one of the solutions from here.
Now — you have lots of ideas and a site where you can publish your articles! You’re almost ready to write your first article! But hey, do you want it to be awesome? Stay with me for another moment. I’ll tell you how to make it great.
You can be the best writer, but your articles will never get attention without being awesome. How to make great post? Awesomize it! Here’s a list of awesomizers:
You definitely need a MacBook. You get it and you’re already a blogger. Even if you write only Google search queries to find code on StackOverflow. Ideas come to your mind more often when you own Apple device. Its keyboard almost writes text for you. All you need to do is buy one, sit back, relax and watch how you become the best blogger in industry.
Perks:
Epic feature of Magic Mouse. Writer-friendly.
Facebook page and sponsored ads
You totally need it. It’s almost like cheating. Don’t worry you will have 20 likes when you begin. You can buy them. I didn’t tell you earlier, but sponsored ads are key to becoming good writer. Do you understand correlation between money spent on promoting your article and clicks? More money spent, more clicks, more readers. This is 100% guaranteed trick to become good blogger with lots of readers. You could stop reading and already become top 1 blogger in the world. However, if you want to go hard way, because you like challenging yourself, continue reading.
Perks:
You think wearing sunglasses is totally unrelated to writing about programming? You’re absolutely right. At first glance it looks like this. But when you investigate deeply and do research you’ll find surprising fact. Here’s the data: every famous writer at least once in his life wore sunglasses.
Sunglasses + beard + that shirt = SWAG
Perks:
Last, but not least, for more readers on your articles — you need to live a brilliant life. Here are some optional awesomizers:
Believe in yourself and start writing! If you’ll encounter any crisis or lack of faith, please remember this sentence:
Why program when you can write about programming
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