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Why Did That Blog Post Work? Cause of Hacker News.
- hackonmyface 13y agoThis is very meta.
- mathattack 13y agotl;dr How did so many people reach my page? One of my friends posted my article to hacker news where it then got picked up by digg and feedly. So why did that blog post work? Given the data I’m looking at, the subject matter was controversial and timely, and it was posted to hacker news. Obviously this would not hold up in the court of law but hey it’s directional.
- hackonmyface 13y agobrilliant summary.
- nate 13y agoOne mistake I kept making for a long time is not turning that traffic from HN into repeat visitors. In the old days it was about email newsletters. Today Twitter followers help. I'll often end my blog posts with a simple PS: follow me on Twitter. It's proven insanely helpful to get new followers who will read that next post.
- hackonmyface 13y agogreat point. will do next time.