Posting to multiple relevant sites and social networks has helped my blog to grow. That, combined with a mailing list that I send each post to (weekly-ish), hel

Posting to multiple relevant sites and social networks has helped my blog to grow. That, combined with a mailing list that I send each post to (weekly-ish), helps drive traffic. Some of the mailing list subscribers share it too. I usually submit new posts to places where I think people will find it useful -- Reddit (r/reactjs), the React FB group, and a couple frontend/JS-specific link aggregator sites. Sometimes HN. My blog is on a technical topic (frontend development with JS + React), and my posts are all geared toward helping people learn about and solve specific problems. A handful of them do pretty well in Google, and all that in total brings in ~40k visitors/month. I'm not sure how many people actually click those social sharing buttons. I think most people tune them out, but I keep them around as a measure of popularity/social proof.