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Have you tried any other forms of traffic building than asking for someone to spread your name? If you're as good as you say you are (I've never read your writi

Have you tried any other forms of traffic building than asking for someone to spread your name? If you're as good as you say you are (I've never read your writing) then I would try getting a guest spot to blog on large parenting and family blogs, the type that gets thousands or tens of thousands of hits per day. Try getting in touch with bloggers for these types of sites, or the people that run the site, and point them back to your blogs. Tell them that you're interested in guest writing blog posts for them. That should get you some good traffic if you could pull that off with a few big blogs. Don't rely on word of mouth advertising, go out there and research alternatives that may be more attainable to you. I hope you find something that works.

Mz 14y ago
I am trying to figure it out and work on it. I am getting some increase in traffic but a lot of the things people suggest do not really work. Someone suggested I do an AMA on Reddit. I did. It was largely ignored. Promoting myself in the ways people suggest seems to never work out. I mostly have not asked these people to promote me but when I have I get told that even if they found my writing personally life changing, they say "but it has no commercial value" and then refuse to help me turn it into something with commercial value..and so on. So amazing people with connections etc. tell me I am amazing and made their life better but bite me bitch if you want anything in return. Um, what? WTF???? It makes me crazy. Then if I try to talk about my frustration, other people say I am delusional and egomaniacal. Can I gnaw my left arm off and escape this trap already?