Learning about driving web traffic as a mobile-only blogger

For this exercise, I wanted to embrace both how little I know about driving web traffic, as well as the two-hour time limit. While I could spend hours researching and learning the best way to drive traffic to my existing content on a blog, realistically I know that most people won't have time to do …

How not to get more traffic to your site

I don't know anything about traffic. Or marketing even, really. My site gets six visitors a day, and most of those seem to be driven by Google searches for "reasons for not picking up the phone" and "best painkiller for broken bones". (Apparently I am the internet's foremost expert on hating the telephone. Not sure …

How to win viewers and influence them to keep coming back

You're a small business owner. You created a website that showcases your services, provides contact information, and of course its regularly updated via your blog. You have been posting for a few months and have recently seen an uptick in business as a result. Its a very small increase, but you want to build on …

Is $20 for 1000 views worth the investment?

Someone (;)) asked: How can I get 1000 views with a $20(US) budget Well well. If you want to get 1000 views on that article you wrote, there are multiple ways to do so which have been greatly covered by my colleagues and I couldn't have done better. I suggest going to their respective posts or …

Growing an audience for existing posts

It's a little difficult to outline how to grow an audience for posts that didn't start out with that intention. Majority of the posts we've collected via A8CDesignFlow (& voice) has not be crafted for general consumption, most skew towards internal reflections or broad statements about the design process—which is great—but less relevant as marketing …

Driving More Traffic to Your Site with $20 and Pizza

Yes, the secret is pizza. 🍕 Let me explain. As a customer empathy challenge, the designers at Automattic have dove into coming up with a plan to drive more traffic to a colleague's post. With a kicker, we also have an imaginary $20 budget to spend on the task. I'll also share that in another …

Experiments in Driving Traffic

If you follow this blog you likely know that last month the designers at Automattic were given the following challenge: Pick a colleague’s post, and explain why you chose that one. Outline a plan for the post to get 1,000+ views. Imagine that you have a US $20 budget to work with. I chose Ashley …

Sorry Mom

You know that classic parable about the cobbler’s children having no shoes? The shoemaker is is too busy with other work to provide for his or her own children. This is prevalent in the technology industry too! I last updated my personal “website” almost five years ago. It’s hand-coded html instead of WordPress because I …

Learn how I grew my blog readership by 1000% on a $20 budget

With this as your challenge - what do you do: Pick a colleague’s post, and explain why you chose that one. Outline a plan for the post to get 1,000+ views. Imagine that you have a US $20 budget to work with. You resort to crazy tactics surely? Like creating click bait worthy blog titles! …

Driving more traffic to my blog

I have been running my blog for a little over a year now and after getting over the fear of writing content, the next biggest challenge I ran into was driving traffic to it. It seems I did something right with one of my posts that brings in one or two organic visitors a day but …