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How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App
- jreposa 18y agoThe KillerStartups requires a ton of information, so you have to be comfortable giving all of that away. It's more of an experiment though, since our traffic is already seeing a steady uptick.
- chaosmachine 18y agoA good Reddit submission can bring in close to 30K new visitors, in my experience.
- Tritis 18y agoHow many users did you retain after the spike relative to before the reddit submission?
- chaosmachine 18y agoLess than 1%. The user comments were mostly positive (1300 upvotes, 400 downvotes), and the site made a reasonable amount of money from the traffic, but the service was not compelling enough for people to use it daily. That's my fault, though, not Reddit's.
- dpeq 18y agoSo what are the criteria for getting a "good" reddit submission?
- mahmud 18y agoA "good" reddit submission is a bad article that makes the rest of your blog look iffy. 30k hits in a day, zero registration. Seriously, if you want to make a good reddit submission, take an inflammatory/biased/extreme opinion pieces or research and quote the most provocative part of it as the title of your submission. Almost a whole paragraph.
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- brandnewlow 18y agoHow the heck does a "Full featured, open-source communication platform that includes e-mail, calendar, file management and contacts into a single page" get 474 referrals from Wikipedia?
- dmat 18y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+6zap http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+6zap By choosing a name that floats to the top in an alphabetical listing :-).
- brandnewlow 18y agoReason #4 for why I should name my kid "1Aaron".
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- ucdaz 18y agoYou might want to focus on smaller bloggers since they're more desperate for content and more willing to write about you. Having multiple write ups from upcoming bloggers can can add up to more hits to your site.