Growing An Online Presence: Strategies For More Page Views

You've decided to create a blog/website and have gotten fairly decent at publishing content on a regular basis. Congratulations! Like getting into a gym routine that lasts past January, this can actually prove to be a difficult habit to form and stick with - at least in my experience. So what now? In most cases, …

My plan to build an audience

Blogging isn't easy, and doing it regularly is hard. I know this because it's something I've struggled with for years (as evidenced by the very sparse archives on my personal site). Even if you post regularly, there's no guarantee that you'll actually get traffic, which is usually the point of having a web site. The …

Do you want page views or readers?

Type "get more blog traffic" into Google and you'll get about 70,000,000 results. The results read like snake oil peddlers trying to one-up each other at a state fair. "Increase Blog Traffic NOW!", "25 Tactics Guaranteed to Increase Your Traffic", and "How to Get 1 Million People to Read Your Blog In 1 Day".* Every …

Find the right tools for you

Several months ago, after having just read a debate among designers about design software, I jumped on Twitter to vent a bit: Necessary things in design that don't actually matter: 1. Tools and software. 2. Visual polish. 3. Opinions of anyone other than your users. — Mike Shelton (@themikeshelton) August 9, 2017 It was a …

It’s not about the page views

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” ~Kurt Vonnegut Let’s face it: Blogging is hard. Writing — not to mention writing well — is challenging for most. You’re putting your thoughts and ideas out into the world, for the trolls and the fans alike. Maybe someone …

The Good Kind of Traffic

There are two kinds of traffic, good traffic and bad traffic. As a California resident I spend a non-trivial amount of time finding ways to avoid bad traffic. Good traffic on the other hand is what website building dreams are made of. Having been challenged with finding a way to get 1000 page views to …

Getting more views

The Internet is a vast world. WordPress.com users alone produce about 86.5 million new posts viewed by more than 409 million people each month. With so much competition, standing out from the crowd is no easy feat. To put ourselves in our customer’s shoes, this month, we were given the challenge of outlining a plan …

The shortcut for getting 1000 views

For this installation of the Automattic Design blog post, we are doing something different. As an empathy challenge, we are tasked to think about a common question our customers face, “How do I get more views?” This is important because views are a basic metric to seeing how popular a website is. With a $20 …

How can I get visitors?

All right, I've just published a post on my brand new, pretty much completely unknown blog, and I want to get some visits. A thousand would be great. Why not? I've worked a bunch of hours on my posts and setting everything up, and I really want other people to see it. It's reasonable. I'm …

How to get more eyeballs.

The commoditization of eyeballs — bought and sold with every click and tap — has brought us into a new era of the internet. Its no longer a hippy haven of happiness. Its about money. And more page views (eyeballs) means more money. Get more views, get more subscribers, get more followers — and then (somehow) you can turn their eyeballs into money. But, how do you get more eyeballs?