Making a blog website from scratch
1 min readNov 13, 2019
The What, Where, When, Why, and How (kinda)
- Write down what you want to make
- Write down why you want to make it (maybe it makes you feel happy, it doesn’t have to sell)
- Now figure out the steps to make it. Let’s say for example I just want to put a blog together for fun. For my own pleasure and I don’t expect it to grow.
- Start writing. Write as much as you can. Put a writing plan together so you know what you want to write about and what to write first
- As you keep publishing, hopefully you get more readers / subscribers
- The product matures, now think about either revamping the design or doing more competitive analysis
- For design, find someone you like from Behance or Dribble
- For competitive analysis, such as SEO, look up Alexa tools
- Now if things pick up more maybe you do more email campaigns
- And you can add products to sell on your site perhaps. Redefine the desired goals
- With enough subscribers you can probably do targeting with personalized landing pages and emails. Designers needed and A/B testing needed.
- Analytics will play a bigger part, you can find out where the funnel is dropping off and improve conversions or something
- Fix pain points by better UI UX? Change product offerings
- Then the most optimal level will be like some machine learning data analytics thing