我从How-To Geek的写作中学到的一些知识

When I wrote the article a few days ago celebrating the first year of How-To Geek, I had originally included a section called “Things I’ve Learned”, but it made the article far too long… so I’m posting that here just in case I didn’t bore you enough with the first article.

几天前，当我写这篇文章庆祝《 How-To Geek》的第一年时 ，我最初包含了一个名为“我学到的东西”的部分，但是这篇文章太长了……所以我将其张贴在这里以防万一我对第一篇文章感到厌烦。

The most important rule to follow is that the readers should come first. Since the readers want good content, that logically means that good content is most important.

遵循的最重要的规则是，读者应该先行。 由于读者想要好的内容，因此从逻辑上讲，好的内容是最重要的。

Quality not QuantityWith the amount of times this expression has been used, you would think I’d have figured this out before I started, but I had to learn through experience. It doesn’t matter if you post 20 times a day if you are boring everybody… in fact it will probably work against you.

质量而不是数量 考虑到使用该表达式的次数，您会认为我在开始之前就已经弄清楚了，但是我必须从经验中学习。 如果您每天都无聊，则是否每天发布20次都没关系……实际上，它可能会对您不利。

Be ConsistentI used to write articles whenever I felt in the mood, which was usually only twice a week at the most… sure, I’d write 6-10 articles at a time, but they all went out on the same day because I was impatient. Finding a daily time to write was a huge step.

始终如一 我以前常常在心情不佳时写文章，通常最多每周一次两次……当然，我一次写6到10篇文章，但由于我不耐烦，它们全都在同一天发布。 每天找时间写作是非常重要的一步。

Be Your TopicYou have to live it, breathe it, understand it. You can search through analytics for the best keywords to write about… but if you aren’t on the path to mastering your topic, you just simply won’t connect with the readers.

成为你的话题 您必须忍受它，呼吸它，理解它。 您可以在分析中搜索要写的最佳关键字……但是，如果您不掌握主题，就不会与读者建立联系。

SEO is Great – If Your Content SucksIf you write articles you’ve heard of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), the art of getting your pages to rank at the top of Google searches. If you are writing articles for a search engine instead of for your readers – you will fail. Just ignore anything you read about SEO.

SEO很棒–如果您的内容很糟糕 如果您撰写过有关SEO(搜索引擎优化)的文章，那是使页面排名在Google搜索顶部的一种技巧。 如果您是为搜索引擎而不是为读者而写文章，那么您将失败。 只需忽略您对SEO的任何了解即可。

Don’t Be An IdiotDon’t get into flame wars, don’t post things and then delete them, don’t link to or suggest anything that you wouldn’t do yourself. Avoid writing about anything illegal… do you think your next employer isn’t going to check up on you?

不要白痴 不要卷入火焰大战，不要发布任何东西然后将其删除，不要链接或建议您自己不会做的任何事情。 避免写任何违法的东西……您认为您的下一位雇主将不对您进行检查吗？

Gadgets are UselessIt seems like virtually every blog is covered in widgets and gadgets that link all over the place, or show some meaningless rating from an even more meaningless rating site. These widgets are worthless unless you are trying to distract the readers from your terrible articles, in which case go for it.

小工具毫无用处似乎几乎每个博客都覆盖有链接到整个地方的小部件和小工具，或者显示了来自甚至更无意义的评级网站的无意义评级。 除非您试图分散读者的注意力，否则这些小部件将一文不值，在这种情况下，请务必这样做。

Ignore Digg & ClonesThe best decision I ever made was to remove Digg buttons from this site and stop trying to write articles that would have any chance of getting on the front page there…

忽略Digg＆Clones 我做出的最佳决定是从该网站上删除Digg按钮，并停止尝试撰写有可能进入该网站首页的文章……

…as that only leaves me with useful articles to write, now I can focus on what is important: good content for the readers. The site has simply exploded since I made that change, and I urge all authors to do the same.

…因为这只剩下我要写的有用文章，所以我现在可以专注于重要的内容：为读者提供的优质内容。 自从我进行了更改以来，该网站就爆炸了，我敦促所有作者都这样做。

I’ll admit that I still would enjoy the large volumes of traffic they can send, so I’m not without the sin of envy.

我承认，我仍然会喜欢他们可以发送的大量流量，因此我并非没有嫉妒的罪过。

Please Step Away From the Adsense, Sir.If your readers have to play the “Find the Content” game every time they visit your site, you need to slow down with the adsense. Unless your goals are only short-term, that is, because otherwise your visitors will eventually stop coming.

先生，请远离Adsense。 如果读者每次访问您的网站都必须玩“查找内容”游戏，则需要放慢adsense的速度。 除非您的目标只是短期的，否则，否则您的访客最终将停止光临。

Try To Avoid Writing Lists Like This OneAren’t we all tired of lists? I’m really tired of reading through feeds in Google Reader and seeing mostly “Top 10 Lists about Making Lists!” I think it’s much more important to get to the point and write about something worthwhile. That’s why this article will fade into the woodwork and you will never read it again.

尝试避免像这样写清单我们不都讨厌清单吗？ 我真的厌倦了在Google阅读器中阅读提要，并且几乎看到“关于制作列表的十大列表！”。 我认为更重要的是写点有价值的东西。 这就是为什么这篇文章会逐渐淡出人们的视野，而您将永远不会再读了。

That’s apparently all I’ve learned. Just remember that focusing on good content is the best rule.

这显然是我所学的。 只要记住，专注于好的内容是最好的规则。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/the-geek-blog/a-few-things-ive-learned-from-writing-at-how-to-geek/