๐ Blogging before blogstatic
- Decide between Wordpress, Ghost, Medium...
- Hire a dev
- Be stuck for some time ๐ญ
๐ฅณ Blogging with blogstatic
- Register on
- Start writing
๐ซ Nothing to install & NO devs
โจ๏ธ Start blogging now
๐ Your domain + Your SEO
๐ ๏ธ In progress ๐ ๏ธ
Currently, all Newsletters sent from blogstatic go via "email @ blogstatic . email"
๐ Soon, customers will be able to set up their own custom email. Including DKIM + Return-path verification.
Stay tuned!
Blogging is a great way to fortify your knowledge even further as a software developer.
You become a teacher and share your learnings with others.
This forces you to rethink your approaches and strategies before you write them down so that others understand.
Start blogging!
๐จ BIG NEWS ๐จ
Our Theme Store is now Live ๐
In addition to introducing our first ever grid-based theme โ kindly named "Gridlock" ๐ฅณ
Read more below ๐
This has not been an easy decision, but one that needed to be made. Thank you to all current paying customers who supported this change โ
PS: It only applies to blogs created on/after April 1st 2024, and any upgrades on the existing blogs on/after this date.
blogstatic offers such an unmatched advantage when running a blog. From a fully customizable approach under your fingers and all the way to the yearly pricing plans.
And Yes, for those in a hurry, blogstatic comes SEO and feature-ready without needing to do anything but write!
Hey friends,
Since yesterday we've been experiencing downtime with creating new .bstatic.io domains. The reason is that we've exceeded our rate limit for new subdomain creations, which is all due to our Product Hunt launch and a huge influx of signups and subdomain creations.
โค๏ธ A quick customer appreciation moment for all the success blogstatic has been experiencing since October
๐ Sales have been increasing, which has helped in deploying much-needed features
โ Thank you for choosing blogstatic and making this ride super enjoyable
โย
@valsopi
Removing the "forever free" plan was a tough decision that had to be made.
Also, we have introduced our new pricing plans that will help blogstatic improve constantly.
Pricing for current paying clients will remain unchanged.
Read more here:
Did you know?
In blogstatic, you can override the <og:image> field and replace it with a dynamic photo generator URL from apps like
@TheMugshotBot
Example: When sharing your post on social media, a beautiful link preview is generated automatically.
โ๏ธ One quick addition to blogstatic worth mentioningย โ something that has been asked a ton.
ยฉ๏ธ The "copyright note" at the footer of your blog, up to now, was pretty much your "blog's name"
๐ฅ Now you can customize it any way you wantย โ in addition to using the {year} tag ๐ฅณ
I've sold $100,000 worth of products through my free newsletter.
Here's what I've learned about...
โข How to attract buyers
โข How to position your products
โข How to get people to buy
Here we go...!
Our vendor, Approximated, who is in charge of providing us with this service, is currently working to help us get through this, for which we're extremely grateful.
In addition, they're implementing a new feature to make subdomain creations in blogstatic instantaneous.
๐จ New Feature: Authors ๐จ
It's finally here for all our customers who are running multi-author blogs ๐ฅ
โขย Invite authors
โขย Blog under a pseudonym
โขย Various access roles
โข Author visibility
โขย Transfer posts between authors
๐จ Today is a big one for us ๐จ
A major improvement on the "Newsletter Post Sending" feature that gives our clients more options when Emailing their subscribers. It's Live and deployed for all clients to use. ๐
Studies have revealed that businesses that own blogs generate 60% more leads. What else do you need to know to give in and start blogging?
#bloggingtips
๐ It's never been easier to start multiple blogs for your various needs. All managed from a single account:
โข personal
โข business
โข sandbox
โจ blogstatic makes it easy at $19/year per blog
๐ These are our current ones!
๐ On April 3rd, we launched our new pricing plans and quickly discovered they were confusing to you, our customer.
โ We listened and delivered!
โจ Also, from now on, each plan is fully refundable within 30 days of purchase! No questions asked!
๐ฅณ Risk-free all the way.
Oh, noes ๐ฑ You can now collect subscribers directly from your blog on blogstatic! ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ
Soooo, no need to hook up a third-party email marketing provider. ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ
๐จ NEW FEATURE ALERT ๐
๐จ New: Email Credits Pricing ๐จ
๐ถ Pay-as-you-go for email credits and send Newsletters to your subscribers straight from blogstatic.
โ In blogstatic, you don't pay for the number of subscribersย โย you only pay for the emails you send out!
One thing we appreciate a ton is our customers suggesting ways on how blogstatic can be better.
Meaning: not just features they need, but something that can further improve the overall feel and functionality of blogstatic for all.
Thank you a million times ๐
โค๏ธ
๐ฒ๐๐ค We are super impressed with how our dear customer
@joe_ashwell
uses blogstatic as a headless CMS via our non-auth JSON API and serves the SEOShip blog through a custom build!
Well done, Joe. The blog looks fantastic ๐ฅ๐ฅณ
๐ The design of your blog will affect the type of content you write, how you write it, and the tone of it.
โ That's why we're working on introducing new themes.
๐ Be on the lookout for a new theme shortly.
To the crazy ones, who don't care about SEO tactics or metrics and just write + write + write, knowing that if their writing connects with one single soul and moves them to take action, motivates and inspires them โ their job as a writer is done!
We've just deployed a new feature on Posts:
๐ Modifying meta data
๐ฆ Twitter cards
๐ Facebook cards
๐ Code injections (Header + Footer)
๐
Important blogging questions to ask ourselves:
โWhat kind of article would we write if we didnโt care about SEO?
โWhose life would improve greatly from reading that?
โจ The best part about blogstatic is that the editor area matches the chosen theme. So, as you're writing your post, you know exactly how it will look once published.
๐ช No need to save/preview before publishing.
๐ Editing/writing โ VS โย Published
๐จ New Theme: Persona ๐จ
๐ This is our first theme with a hero section and our first since the introduction of our new pricing and rebranding.
๐ Here by popular demand
โจ Improvement
To all posts that have their "Table of Contents" turned to "On" โย we added a little "back to top" icon on the bottomโright corner of the screen.
The feature has gotten a bit bigger than we had anticipated (code-wise), but it will include:
โย Inviting authors
โย Roles:
โ Transferring posts
โย Author URLs
Stay tuned โณ
2/2
Here are 21 blogging tips from someone who makes $30K per month with his blog
We found this via
@jspector
's newsletter, which we highly recommend you sign up now ๐๏ธ
๐จ๐จ๐จ New copy on our homepage: Announcing some of our best features that are coming up shortly!
โจ More interactions with your readers and monetization in which we take ZERO cut! Yes 0%!
๐คซ Unlike some other ones, cough [sbstk], cough!
โ๏ธ This represents a new era in our journey to serving creators who want to build and grow an audience with their writing.
๐ We'll be doing this better, faster, and in a more affordable way than what's currently out there.
Super close to deploying this. Stay tuned โ๏ธ
โWriting that resonates with an audience isnโt about whatโs in the writerโs headโโโitโs an expression of whatโs in the readerโs head.โ
And 39 other tips by
@jspector
that will make you a better writer
We just got to 500 followers ๐ฅณ
Thank you all for your support โ
Let's hit 1,000 followers next ๐
We tried generating an image with ChatGPT with the number 500 in the center of it, but it just couldn't ๐
Here are a few numbers that are close to 500 ๐คทโโ๏ธ
๐ค Did you know?
๐ You can easily migrate from Ghost to blogstatic and quickly carry over all your posts.
Benefits:
โ A less cluttered "everything" โจ
โย Major savings on your yearly payments ๐ธ
Say hi
@blogstatic
.io and send us your Ghost export.
โ Blogging is good for making some quick cash, ads sold, etc.
๐ But you know what blogging is best at? โCreating a loyal audience through writing for which you can constantly create and give back to.
๐ Launching a book would be a walk-in-the-park with a following like that!
๐ Improvement ๐
In blogstatic, the editing area looks exactly the same as the published post, which is a big help in knowing how your finished piece will look like.
However, this helpful benefit has a little fun downside ๐
We will let you know once everything is back to normal here on Twitter, and we will email every affected blog owner individually.
Thank you for being super patient with us and understanding the situation.
๐
โจ There's an update coming to the Settings area: This will make it much easier to update each specific area of your blog. From content and all the way to the advanced and technical bits ๐พ
Stay tuned as we deploy it soon ๐
Now with blogstatic you can blog and send newsletters, too. Your readers can subscribe to your blog, like your posts, and even read subscriber only posts.
Whatโs holding you back from starting to write today?
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Check out this wonderful review of blogstatic by
@TiagoSilvaHQ
of "The Stack Junction".
Tiago's criteria are long and strict ๐ฅ It's an honor to be recommended and covered on
Full video below ๐
๐จ Custom 404 pages ๐จ
Instead of showing the generic "Page not found" page when your readers visit a non-existing link in your blog, you can show them a full-blown page written and created by you.
Thanks to our customer Ankit
@Growthfyi
for the request
๐ฏ There's never been a better time than to start a blog!
โ A piece of content that you own, under your own domain โย that doesn't depend on social networks' whims and decisions.
๐ And blogstatic makes it all easy for $19/year.
๐จ UPDATE: Since upgrading our prices a few days ago we received many requests from casual bloggers who may not need newsletter sending capabilities (yet).
They just want to blog!
For these writers we have introduced a new entry level plan for $5/month that does just that๐
Removing the "forever free" plan was a tough decision that had to be made.
Also, we have introduced our new pricing plans that will help blogstatic improve constantly.
Pricing for current paying clients will remain unchanged.
Read more here:
๐จ Feature Update ๐จ
Now, in blogstatic, you can translate every element in the Newsletter, Subscribe flow, and even landing screens after Subscriber actions (subscribe, unsubscribe) โ all thanks to our customers' requests.
๐จ A tiny, but important feature ๐จ
โ Now, in blogstatic, your newsletter subscribers can know precisely when they subscribed.
โ Thanks,
@tonydehnke
for this great suggestion!
We are super happy how this came about. And thanks to the bloggers who have noticed already ๐ฅ
RE: Posting area looking exactly the same as your final published post!
๐ค A little update on how our new theme is coming along.
๐งฉ Hint: It will be the first one with an about section on the hero section on the homepage.
โ Stay tuned as we deploy it soon.
Mulish is the typeface of choice for the latest theme we're working on. It's made both for display (titles) and long-form text.
It was first designed in 2011 by Vernon Adams and then released in 2020, including Jacques Le Bailly and Cereal.
๐จ New Feature ๐จ
This sure is a big one! โ
Multiple Galleries on posts and Lightbox pop-ups!
Read more by clicking on the article/image below ๐
Welcoming yet another blogger on to the blogstatic community of writers ๐คฉ
@milot
with "Random bits from the inner depths of the NPUs (Neural Processing Units)"
You've been warned! โก๏ธ
๐ข Themes are here!
- Switch to a different one anytime โ
- See your blog updated instantly โ๏ธ
- You're never locked in ๐
More tomorrow! ๐
๐ฅณ
Launching a startup? SEO should be top of mind.
Invest in SEO before you even spend 1 minute planning your website build.
SEO is the key to long-term, sustainable growth (due to increased visibility) for your startup.
โจ Delighted to have you on blogstatic as a customer
@nathanjpowellUX
๐ The /subfolder option does make a difference for sure!
๐ฅณ Thanks for the good words comparing the blogstatic way to the WP route!
Finally got my blog underway (without having to go down the WP route) thanks to
@blogstatic
!
So nice to have it on my preferred /blog
and here's the first article:
blogstatic is making blogging easier. The way it should have always been:
- Easy to start: Free domain.
- Multiple blogs: One account.
- Real WYSIWYG: No preview!
- Customizations: Make it fit your content.
Every day weโre thinking of how to make it easier for You!
๐ฅ
My Twitter course "Find your Following is" now available!
Grow an authentic Twitter presence with intentional relationships and a following that trusts and respects you.
Find your following, build your brand in public, and create your own opportunities.
Best time to write?
When youโre frustrated, ruminating, angry.
Itโs the truest form of writing.
Write for yourself and no one else.
Chances are youโll find more kindred souls frustrated in a similar way about the same thing.
โฌ๏ธ
Q: Can you make money blogging in 2021?
A: Yes!
According to a
@problogger
survey:
- 4% earn $10K or higher (per month)
- 9% make between $1Kโ$10K
- 7% earn between $500โ$1K
๐ช New Improvement ๐ช
โ๏ธ We just fixed the flow for setting up subdomains, custom domains, and /subfolders.
โจ Especially on the /subfolder front, there were a few confusions that are now easier to manageย โย in other words: Zero ways for the customer to make a mistake.
Since my blog made it onto
@blogstatic
's showcase I thought I'd better update it, so I penned a short review of Blogstatic itself. I think we both know how this is going to end ๐๐This time with the link๐
โAny minute spent not doing something traditionally productive was a minute wasted. When I tried to relax, the voice in the back of my mind told me I was being useless, that I was a good-for-nothing lazy bum.โ โ
@heyyfernanda