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My recommendations for improving. 1) Make sure you can measure readers, and set yourself goals to grow. Seeing the number grow will give yourself extra commitm
by ecesena 8y ago
My recommendations for improving.
1) Make sure you can measure readers, and set yourself goals to grow. Seeing the number grow will give yourself extra commitment. I use Medium, and their weekly recap is also very motivating to me.
2) Develop your audience, either on HN, Reddit, mailing list, etc.
3) I personally write "keyword-oriented", meaning I try to state 1 or 2 points per post, and analyze the keywords to make sure what I see from keywords is consistent to what I was planning to say.
4) Good keywords, especially on titles, help with SEO. For example from your 2 posts: one is good, one is bad :) (not bad in general, only from this perspective). The are other techniques as well, but I like the SEO style, because I prefer to write to answer someone else's question. (vs, for example, collect click because of a catchy headline.)
5) If you lack ideas, one "trick" I've used myself is this one. Whenever you have a problem, that a single search on Google doesn't solve, but you need 2+, then write about it. Even if it's just 2 lines of solution, it'll make a good post and keep you in the spirit or writing.
My blog: https://medium.com/@0x0ece https://medium.com/@0x0ece
To give you some numbers, last year I gave a presentation to my colleagues on blogging titled "how to get to 100 reads/article". Now I'm typically over the 1k, with 3-500 reads/week. From HN (which is my sole network for "advertising") I used to get 10-30 reads, now I grew to typically 100+.
Enjoy, and keep on blogging!
- ElFitz 8y agoThat's very interesting, and will give me a lot to think about. Thanks ! The trick is pretty much what I already do for inspiration, wether it's for apps (very time consuming) or writing, and it's a great one.