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Re:Ask HN: How do I get people to find my pre-launch landing... by throwaway4good on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:32AM (#25629604)
20 (?) years ago there was something called "organic traffic". People finding your stuff through random searching or clicking around in website directories.

That doesn't exist anymore.

Today you pay for it.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get people to find my pre-launch landing... by jerrre on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:44AM (#25629684)
This story was 2 years ago but I just made a simple 1 page landing page for a product idea with just the first things that came to mind for describing the problem and solution. I have no SEO or copywriting expertise at all.

After making Google Index it it just got traffic in a couple of months, now still having 2-3k views/mo.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get people to find my pre-launch landing... by throwaway4good on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:34AM (#25629616)
Some will tell you to grow an audience.

Maybe you can do that.

But often the audience will be off. For example you are building a webshop that sells shoes. And you get an audience by blogging about setting up your webshop using ruby on rails and kubernetes.

You can direct that audience towards your webshop; problem is that they are probably not going to buy your shoes.

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