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These are terrible! The only traffic you'll get from these are curious clickers and bounces (unless you're targeting entrepreneurs). I'd argue that these sites

These are terrible! The only traffic you'll get from these are curious clickers and bounces (unless you're targeting entrepreneurs). I'd argue that these sites have a negative effect, since you're skewing your numbers without getting any meaningful stats (where people are dropping out of the funnel, why people are bouncing). Instead, get featured on small industry blogs and build up from there. A little press goes a long ways. In my experience, I haven't even had to pitch larger new sites after getting a couple articles on smaller blogs. They see the smaller posts getting mentioned on Twitter and reach out to write their spiel.

somewhatjustin 13y ago
What's your process to finding these smaller blogs?
- nathancahill 13y ago
  Alltop [0] is great. BlogRank [1] is good too. Look at the sources that bigger news sites get their leads from (the via link at the bottom of articles). Spend more time than you think necessary writing really great emails for the editors of the smaller blogs. Include a press kit with the stuff they'd need to write a nice looking post: generally a couple photos/large logo and a bullet point description of your pitch and company story. [0] http://alltop.com/ http://alltop.com/ [1] http://www.blogmetrics.org/ http://www.blogmetrics.org/
nader 13y ago
I partially agree with you. Nevertheless traffic is good in order to get your brand out there.
the_watcher 13y ago
It depends on if the sites you post on have the traffic you want. Posting on HN is great if you are looking for feedback from a hacker perspective (so your product should have some utility to them). Obviously, just posting everywhere will get you clicks, but the important part is that the people clicking might actually want to use it. If you do that well, and you have a high bounce rate, I'd actually say that you got valuable feedback about how useful your product actually is.

somewhatjustin 13y ago

What's your process to finding these smaller blogs?

nathancahill 13y ago
Alltop [0] is great. BlogRank [1] is good too. Look at the sources that bigger news sites get their leads from (the via link at the bottom of articles). Spend more time than you think necessary writing really great emails for the editors of the smaller blogs. Include a press kit with the stuff they'd need to write a nice looking post: generally a couple photos/large logo and a bullet point description of your pitch and company story. [0] http://alltop.com/ http://alltop.com/ [1] http://www.blogmetrics.org/ http://www.blogmetrics.org/

nader 13y ago

I partially agree with you. Nevertheless traffic is good in order to get your brand out there.

the_watcher 13y ago

It depends on if the sites you post on have the traffic you want. Posting on HN is great if you are looking for feedback from a hacker perspective (so your product should have some utility to them). Obviously, just posting everywhere will get you clicks, but the important part is that the people clicking might actually want to use it. If you do that well, and you have a high bounce rate, I'd actually say that you got valuable feedback about how useful your product actually is.