I've been in the headlines for 943 days, and my income is mediocre, so why do I have to take this as a photo?
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Preface
The footprints came out on their own.
Looking back at your footprints has at least two benefits.
One is to see if the footprint is right, and the other is to look at the depth of the footprint.
It means that the footprints are positive, indicating that your direction has not deviated from your original intention.
The depth of the footprints, at least indicates that on the way forward, the strength is greater or not greater?
Therefore, every time you walk a way, looking back at your footprints is a reminder and a spur to yourself.
I've been in Toutiao for 943 days, and although I haven't made any big achievements, I have made a slight gain.
In other words, it is still worth summarizing and leaving a mark on this part of your journey.
I'm an old man who likes to talk, but I'm not good at expressing myself.
Therefore, the recorded text is a bit incompatible with the preface and the afterword, and there is no discipline.
Say what you think, and write it down as you say.
For those of you who are reading this article, it may be a bit of a struggle. However, it was just a conversation with a demented old man.
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Why did I choose to register with Toutiao?
Because I love codewords. Codeword is a kind of network language after having a computer. Actually, I just like to write.
Because of his hobby and impulsiveness, he signed a contract on the novel platform and coded two novels, totaling more than 1 million words.
There are updated hard and fast rules for signing code words. For an old man, this is tantamount to driving a donkey to the shelf.
After signing two novels, I decisively said goodbye to this field.
At this time, I found the headline number, and as soon as I saw the rules of the game, combined with my own actual situation, I decisively registered.
After the registration was successful, I didn't send any text. Just quietly browse the articles on the headline number. Work hard to learn and adapt to all the rules and regulations of Toutiao.
At the same time, browse the joys and sorrows of some old-timers who have worked hard in Toutiao.
After going through it all, I have a certain amount of confidence in my writing.
Where there is self-confidence, there is impulse, and where there is impulse, there is energy. That's how I posted my first short article with trepidation.
What was the first thing you encountered in Toutiao?
posted the first article, and there was a profit of 0.28 yuan. This is a big revelation for me: it is to post articles on the headlines, and you can really make money.
This result strengthened my confidence in taking root in the headline essay.
So, I started working diligently on codewords. For a long time, my performance numbers were stuck in the double digits.
At that time, the headline withdrawal rule was that you could only withdraw money on Thursday if you reached $100.
Half a year has passed, and it has not reached 100 yuan, that is to say, the 0.28 yuan of the income of the first article is also a flower in the mirror, and it is only a moon in the water.
I had to look for the reasons for the repeated defeats, and I searched for several big circles, but I couldn't get the point.
Fortunately, my original intention of coming to Toutiao was not to make money, but to have a platform for publishing the articles that came out, and that's it.
However, the articles that have been coded out have to be read by someone, and the articles that no one has read, what's the point of coding them out?
From this point of view, it is useless to use traditional norms to measure what is good or bad in the articles posted in Toutiao.
The only criterion is the size of the audience.
Self-righteous articles that have no audience, or very few audiences, not only do not make money, but also devalue the article.
This shows me the direction of what makes a good article in the headlines.
As the saying goes: the direction is wrong, and the effort is in vain.
If you want to change the author's creative concept, it is impossible to do it without a big twist and turn.
The arrogance of the so-called literati is reflected here.
I also have pride, but it's just not very hard.
Because, I'm just a hobby, and I don't have a genre to pursue.
Now that you understand Toutiao's criteria for judging whether an article is good or bad, smart people have only one word for their choice: change.
I'm not the kind of stubborn character either.
I'm just a bad old man who takes pleasure in code words, and I will change it when I say it.
What happened to the income after the change?
It's really a tune that is sung in which mountain, and when it is in tune with the environment, the situation will change for the better.
It didn't take long for me to finally mention the first real money. The income of the first article was 0.28 yuan, which really fit into my wallet.
The direction has changed, and it may not be in place, and the income has still not improved significantly.
The income statement I see every day, 0 is the majority, 0.01 to 0.1 is a common number, and occasionally 1.
This is not the way after all, why is there only a small audience for my code articles?
After review, the reason was found.
1 is unknowingly deducted three credit points.
2 is that the field is not vertical.
After finding the cause, the problem was in front of me: how to change it?
I complained to myself, and I only cared about pulling the cart, not looking up at the road.
After a period of grinding and silence, one day, I saw an article with such data:
I looked at this set of data and thought about it. Only I know what I think, and only I know what I think of.
Due to the deep reasons involved, it is inconvenient to show it here, please understand.
Does Toutiao really have a key to a popular article?
I'm stupid by nature and not sensitive to keys.
It stands to reason that I have been posting articles for a short period of time, all of which are high and high volumes, high readings, and of course, high income is followed.
At that time, I thought I had found the key to the hit. However, the good times were short-lived. Then came low impressions, low readings, and low income.
Only then did I dispel my blind optimism, and everything returned to its original sluggish state.
However, I firmly remember an iron rule, that is, the higher the number of impressions, the more readings, and the higher the income.
In other words, the income of the article is determined by the amount of impressions.
The crux of the problem has been found, so how to solve this crux?
For me, the crux of the matter is an unsolvable mystery.
Since there is no solution, I won't spend any effort to crack it, and the useless work is really boring.
How to use AI tools?
It's good to be in favor of new writing tools, but it's not good to rely on them too much.
The following one is my AI-generated article, which has this logo on the headline:
[The content may be created by AI, please pay attention to screening.] 】
With such a mark, putting aside the uncertainty of the headline's handling of this kind of article, do you feel very helpless?
At least he lost the qualification of a real author to create, and at least it was a joke in the circle.
When I first published an AI-generated article, I didn't notice that there was such a markup, which is not the same thing.
Since I found out about this kind of annotation, I have decisively stopped using AI tools to generate articles, and returned to the old tradition of using my own brain and hands.
After such an article is sent, there is no feeling of being tattooed on the face.
When I read the above article, I felt a sense of pride out of thin air, and this is my true originality.
How to use AI tools?
My approach is to ask the AI to help me write a synopsis of the story, and I will write from it.
You can also let it design the characters for you and provide you with the difficulties you encounter in writing.
My friends are all masters of writing, so I don't have to be long-winded.
In a word, you can only use the AI tool as a secretary, not let it hold the pen for you.
This is fundamental.
epilogue
Until this article is published, a copy of the latest data will be posted, based on the photo.
Here's my latest data on the headline number 943 days (as of Thursday, February 15, 2024)
I spent my old age on the headlines, and whether I succeeded or failed, I was happy.
I hope to browse the experience of friends in all aspects of the platform.
I wish you friends happy writing and happy walking in Toutiao.
This one was done by myself, and when I posted it to the headlines, there would be no [content may be created by AI, please pay attention to screening. ] of the logo.