No way, the so-called online literature in these years refers to the writers who were originally only published on the Internet and mined on the Internet, and then produced content specifically for online readers, and then turned to change offline literature.

Since the current Internet has no paid function, all online writers can only return to offline after becoming popular on the Internet, looking for publishing opportunities.

Although Banyan Shuxia is currently the most popular literary website, its main source of income is still publishing, through the form of signing contracts with authors under Banyan Shuxia and paying remuneration, Banyan Shuxia obtains the relevant copyrights, and then cooperates with traditional publishing houses to obtain publishing income.

Although there are already many online literary authors who have become popular under the banyan tree, most of their influence is limited to the Internet, and when they face the test of paper publishing, they usually do not sell very well.

Even Baby Anne's own book written under the banyan tree, although it is very popular on the Internet, the publishing house is still hesitating, and even "The Legend of Wukong", which later became popular on the Internet, was directly returned by the publishing house some time ago.

However, Lin Weidong was not discouraged by the lack of hope, but worked harder to devote himself to the creation of "e-Net Love".

On the other hand, Lin Weidong was still worried about the lack of funds to promote hao123, but what he didn't expect was that the opportunity came uninvited.

That night, the person in charge of a website listening to songs left a message to Lin Weidong in the mailbox, hoping to discuss advertising cooperation with him.

The Hao123 website actually had advertisements that were sent to the door, which surprised Lin Weidong.

In the face of such a good thing, Lin Weidong was not too excited, his first reaction may have been that he had met a liar, but Lin Weidong thought about it for a while, he didn't seem to have anything worth cheating, so there was nothing to worry about.

Without too much hesitation, Lin Weidong added the other party's oicq according to the contact information left in the mailbox.

The person in charge of the listening website is surnamed Zhu, and Lin Weidong calls him Mr. Zhu on OICQ.

Lin Weidong was very curious about why Mr. Zhu would talk to him about cooperation, so he sent a message to ask him: "Hello Mr. Zhu, can you tell me why you chose hao123?"

Mr. Zhu was not verbose, and asked him directly: "Do you know how many people use your navigation website every day?"

Lin Weidong told the truth: "I don't know, how many?"

Although Lin Weidong knows that hao123's ranking has been rising, he does not know exactly how many views the site has.

Immediately afterward, Mr. Zhu gave a staggering figure: "At least 100,000 people a day. ”

It was only at this time that Lin Weidong learned that in the past two or three months, the users of hao123 have gradually spread from small cities in the 18th tier to large cities in the first and second tiers with the trend of "rural areas surrounding cities".

In the past half month, hao123 has created more traffic than all other navigation websites combined.

Subsequently, after some joint negotiation between the two parties in OICQ, Mr. Zhu hoped to hang the keywords of his website on the hao123 page, and was willing to pay 500 yuan per month for advertising to Lin Weidong.

Since someone said that he wanted to send money to himself, whether it was true or not, Lin Weidong had no reason to refuse, so he agreed to Mr. Zhu's request for cooperation.

It wasn't until the next morning that Lin Weidong went to a nearby bank to check the account, and looked at the extra 500 yuan on the passbook to make sure that this matter was true, and he earned the first pot of gold in such a daze.

However, even with the facts in front of him, Lin Weidong still feels incredible, because he basically hasn't promoted hao123 much.

In fact, since Lin Weidong installed hao123 in every computer in the Red Ant Internet Cafe, hao123 has quickly spread throughout Mei'an City through word of mouth at the customer's door and the "hand-in-hand" of other Internet café administrators.

Different from the later Internet environment, the spread of Internet products in these years basically relied on word-of-mouth, and at a time when even the application of search engines was very rare, there was no list to be brushed.

No one is willing to spend money on any list, because many Internet websites don't make much money, and if they spend money to brush the list, or spend money to promote, they may never get their money back.

In this era of information scarcity, people's demand for the Internet is exploratory, and people don't know to look up the so-called Shibor price, but just look for some random financial information.

Of course, the core reason why hao123 can successfully open up the situation is that Lin Weidong has a proper grasp of user needs.

At the same time, Lin Weidong's "e-Net Love" serialized under the banyan tree also won the love and popularity of a large number of readers in just two or three days.

Unlike other authors' weekly updates, or the salted fish state of January updates, Lin Weidong hopes that he can maintain stable updates every day, and update a chapter on time at 10 o'clock every night.

You must know that the authors of online novels in this year generally update a chapter only a few days, and weekly changes abound, and monthly changes are not uncommon, which is the most painful thing for readers.

Lin Weidong decided to update it stably every day, hoping to be worthy of these readers who support him, even if his writing is not too good, but at least let them see his works every day.

The hard work pays off, and after Lin Weidong's "e-Net Love" was updated under the banyan tree for three consecutive days, a large number of reader messages began to appear in the comment area:

"Wow, there are even authors who are updated every day, for this kind of persistence, praise one, much better than those "eunuchs". As long as the author insists on updating this frequency every day, even if the writing is poor, I will always support you. ”

"I think it's very interesting to write! It's very similar to "The First Close Contact" by the ruffian Cai, and it is closer to the lives of our mainlanders than "The First Close Contact", which is very good-looking, and I will always support it. ”

"Come on update the author, I have to read it every day, the more I read it, the more I feel energetic, I hope it will be a happy ending. ”

“......”

Of course, the messages of readers on the website are not all praise, Lin Weidong also heard a lot of harsh voices, some people think that "e-Net Love" is fried cold rice, and it is a follow-up to "The First Close Contact", which is far inferior to the original work "The First Close Contact" by the ruffian Cai.

However, in general, the readers' reactions were positive, which also made Lin Weidong deeply feel the happiness brought to him by literary creation for the first time.

Looking at the high praise and praise of himself from online readers every day, Lin Weidong is not proud and complacent, because he knows very well that he has not earned a penny from beginning to end, and he understands that he is still far from success.