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Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?

19 points by bovem 4y ago

rozenmd 4y ago
I share links to my blog about React on forums/twitter if it helps the person asking a question (my hack for this is that if I see a common enough question, I write an article for next time I see it)
- baremetal 4y ago
  That is both helpful to people and good marketing. Good work.
jgrahamc 4y ago
I tweet from my personal account and post blogs here.
jppope 4y ago
https://jonpauluritis.com https://jonpauluritis.com I don't know if I would say "promote" but I post articles here (HN), twitter, and email my friends and family some times.
dontbenebby 4y ago
nope. i opted myself out of the wayback machine and have obliterated my online precedence as much as possible. for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief moment that we'd all kind of live in arcologies with solar powered desalination or something and instead... [tabs over to Al Jazeera] yikes!! russia are JERKs. strive to be the ghost in the machine if you want to be a hacker.
asb 4y ago
I link to something I've written in a conversation if it's relevant (like this - my blog is https://muxup.com/ https://muxup.com/), and post articles to HN, lobste.rs, or an appropriate subreddit if no-one else does and I think it's relevant to people there.
skwee357 4y ago
I usually post articles from my blog[0] in relevant sub reddits and here on HN. I also try to write high quality content, and about things I worked with or encountered-thus hitting relevant Google terms, which in turn brings me a little bit of organic traffic. [0] https://yieldcode.blog https://yieldcode.blog
surprisetalk 4y ago
# First, write what nobody else can. Take your experiences and your knowledge your distinct flavor and distill it into a potent package. For an example, check out my essay currently on the front-page: [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259588 It also helps to "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" (POSSE). This gives you a nice balance of freedom and control over your online identity. [2] https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE This essay provides great advice on finding things to write about: [3] https://www.benkuhn.net/writing https://www.benkuhn.net/writing # Second, be helpful (and opportunistic). In order to be helpful, you must (1) know stuff and (2) share it. To learn stuff, read voraciously and write obsessively. To share things, be everywhere first. I have a bunch of keyword notifications to help people in my fields of expertise. If you can't be there first, be there better. Hone skills that are difficult to ignore. [4] https://hnrss.github.io https://hnrss.github.io # Third, don't be annoying. This takes finesse, and I'm personally still trying to find the balance. People will signal to you when you're not wanted. Listen to those messages and cool down. Other people are generally not your problem. Here's an example of how to be annoying: [5] https://taylor.town https://taylor.town
labarilem 4y ago
Usually I share new articles on Linkedin and sometimes post here. Then I link my posts to colleagues and friends when it can be of help. My blog: https://marcolabarile.me https://marcolabarile.me
mgh2 4y ago
Whatever you do, try to add value that is relevant to the conversation, so that it is not just plain marketing or selling (people can smell it). There is already so much misinformation masqueraded as content today, offer your audience some value they can take away. I try to share insights wherever I see it: philosophy, economics, movies, corporations, etc. Helps me train observation, writing and analysis skills: https://trendguardian.medium.com/ https://trendguardian.medium.com/
mattbgates 4y ago
I used to promote https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com in the beginning by paying for posts and encouraging those writers to share with their social media to finding forums that were dedicated to accepting blog posts from others and having them share it. Eventually, freelancers and marketing agencies liked my website and called it their home.. and I don't do any marketing for it anymore. They do all the work for me and I have the platform they need. Never paid for advertising or marketing for it. It's been an amazing 10 years... at least a dozen projects spawned from it. I have spoken to so many people from all over the world who have an article on there. Approaching 5,000 articles and counting. I'll probably keep it going until my last breath. My website became my passion for what I was studying in college... didn't get a chance to pursue my psychology degree beyond a bachelors in science because I got into programming and web design and never left... so this kept me at least pursuing the interest of it.
ezedv 4y ago
I usually promote it on Reddit or Quora, I invite you to check it out: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog
- hominidonearth 4y ago
  Is this your personal blog? Rather Labs seems like a rather large firm. No knocks on anything though the website is great
alextkachev962 4y ago
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19 points by bovem 4y ago

I share links to my blog about React on forums/twitter if it helps the person asking a question (my hack for this is that if I see a common enough question, I write an article for next time I see it)

baremetal 4y ago
That is both helpful to people and good marketing. Good work.

jgrahamc 4y ago

I tweet from my personal account and post blogs here.

jppope 4y ago

https://jonpauluritis.com https://jonpauluritis.com I don't know if I would say "promote" but I post articles here (HN), twitter, and email my friends and family some times.

dontbenebby 4y ago

nope. i opted myself out of the wayback machine and have obliterated my online precedence as much as possible. for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief moment that we'd all kind of live in arcologies with solar powered desalination or something and instead... [tabs over to Al Jazeera] yikes!! russia are JERKs. strive to be the ghost in the machine if you want to be a hacker.

asb 4y ago

I link to something I've written in a conversation if it's relevant (like this - my blog is https://muxup.com/ https://muxup.com/), and post articles to HN, lobste.rs, or an appropriate subreddit if no-one else does and I think it's relevant to people there.

skwee357 4y ago

I usually post articles from my blog[0] in relevant sub reddits and here on HN. I also try to write high quality content, and about things I worked with or encountered-thus hitting relevant Google terms, which in turn brings me a little bit of organic traffic. [0] https://yieldcode.blog https://yieldcode.blog

surprisetalk 4y ago

# First, write what nobody else can. Take your experiences and your knowledge your distinct flavor and distill it into a potent package. For an example, check out my essay currently on the front-page: [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259588 It also helps to "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" (POSSE). This gives you a nice balance of freedom and control over your online identity. [2] https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE This essay provides great advice on finding things to write about: [3] https://www.benkuhn.net/writing https://www.benkuhn.net/writing # Second, be helpful (and opportunistic). In order to be helpful, you must (1) know stuff and (2) share it. To learn stuff, read voraciously and write obsessively. To share things, be everywhere first. I have a bunch of keyword notifications to help people in my fields of expertise. If you can't be there first, be there better. Hone skills that are difficult to ignore. [4] https://hnrss.github.io https://hnrss.github.io # Third, don't be annoying. This takes finesse, and I'm personally still trying to find the balance. People will signal to you when you're not wanted. Listen to those messages and cool down. Other people are generally not your problem. Here's an example of how to be annoying: [5] https://taylor.town https://taylor.town

labarilem 4y ago

Usually I share new articles on Linkedin and sometimes post here. Then I link my posts to colleagues and friends when it can be of help. My blog: https://marcolabarile.me https://marcolabarile.me

mgh2 4y ago

Whatever you do, try to add value that is relevant to the conversation, so that it is not just plain marketing or selling (people can smell it). There is already so much misinformation masqueraded as content today, offer your audience some value they can take away. I try to share insights wherever I see it: philosophy, economics, movies, corporations, etc. Helps me train observation, writing and analysis skills: https://trendguardian.medium.com/ https://trendguardian.medium.com/

mattbgates 4y ago

I used to promote https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com in the beginning by paying for posts and encouraging those writers to share with their social media to finding forums that were dedicated to accepting blog posts from others and having them share it. Eventually, freelancers and marketing agencies liked my website and called it their home.. and I don't do any marketing for it anymore. They do all the work for me and I have the platform they need. Never paid for advertising or marketing for it. It's been an amazing 10 years... at least a dozen projects spawned from it. I have spoken to so many people from all over the world who have an article on there. Approaching 5,000 articles and counting. I'll probably keep it going until my last breath. My website became my passion for what I was studying in college... didn't get a chance to pursue my psychology degree beyond a bachelors in science because I got into programming and web design and never left... so this kept me at least pursuing the interest of it.

ezedv 4y ago

I usually promote it on Reddit or Quora, I invite you to check it out: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog

hominidonearth 4y ago
Is this your personal blog? Rather Labs seems like a rather large firm. No knocks on anything though the website is great

alextkachev962 4y ago

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