Full disclosure - I have never successfully or intentionally grown a blog. Most of my suggestions are speculation until proven. My personal blog has been more of a personal portfolio and a collection of thoughts rather than an audience focused area. But, going into 2018, perhaps it is time to change that and turn it … Continue reading Growing my Personal Blog
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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 … Continue reading The shortcut for getting 1000 views
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 … Continue reading Driving More Traffic to Your Site with $20 and Pizza
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 … Continue reading Driving more traffic to my blog
“How can I get more views to my blog?”
At work, we were recently asked to examine a common problem among bloggers of all types: how to get more views. As someone who has been blogging since before it was called “blogging”, web traffic is still a bit of a black box to me. Any success I’ve had has been the result of persistence … Continue reading “How can I get more views to my blog?”