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...yeah. No offense, but that stuff doesn't "happen" organically like that except with lottery winner odds. I've had to grow traffic for sites before. Generall
by fweespeech 11y ago
...yeah. No offense, but that stuff doesn't "happen" organically like that except with lottery winner odds.
I've had to grow traffic for sites before. Generally, even if its good content, you have to put some effort into driving traffic to it. Which is marketing. At which point, you are doing it to market something. The first thought is marketing.
- prawn 11y agoNot the SEO, the talking about BCC.
- fweespeech 11y agoYeah, its marketing. I have had profitable side projects but I never talk about them on HN or other sites. Self promotion is inherently about marketing and even at the start that is precisely what he did.
- prawn 11y agoMy response to this is already in another branch of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602791 Explains how it wasn't necessarily his first thought. In the beginning, it was HN comments where the first thought is more sharing content you feel is relevant, or the gamification of karma. I'm responding to you and at no point do I feel like I am marketing "prawn" or anything I do online. I'd use a relevant username for one thing!