How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App

Posted by dmytton on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:43AM
from the 6zap.com dept.

http://www.6zap.com/blog/?p=165

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by jreposa on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @08:00AM (#530001)

The KillerStartups requires a ton of information, so you have to be comfortable giving all of that away.

It's more of an experiment though, since our traffic is already seeing a steady uptick.

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by chaosmachine on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @09:10AM (#530052)

A good Reddit submission can bring in close to 30K new visitors, in my experience.

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by Tritis on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @09:51AM (#530101)

How many users did you retain after the spike relative to before the reddit submission?

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by chaosmachine on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @01:51PM (#530472)

Less than 1%.

The user comments were mostly positive (1300 upvotes, 400 downvotes), and the site made a reasonable amount of money from the traffic, but the service was not compelling enough for people to use it daily. That's my fault, though, not Reddit's.

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by dpeq on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @11:30AM (#530267)

So what are the criteria for getting a "good" reddit submission?

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by mahmud on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @12:34PM (#530342)

A "good" reddit submission is a bad article that makes the rest of your blog look iffy. 30k hits in a day, zero registration.

Seriously, if you want to make a good reddit submission, take an inflammatory/biased/extreme opinion pieces or research and quote the most provocative part of it as the title of your submission. Almost a whole paragraph.

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by brandnewlow on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @10:30AM (#530179)

How the heck does a "Full featured, open-source communication platform that includes e-mail, calendar, file management and contacts into a single page" get 474 referrals from Wikipedia?

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by dmat on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @11:28AM (#530264)

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+6zap

By choosing a name that floats to the top in an alphabetical listing :-).

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by brandnewlow on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @11:41AM (#530283)

Reason #4 for why I should name my kid "1Aaron".

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Re:How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App by ucdaz on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @07:13PM (#531049)

You might want to focus on smaller bloggers since they're more desperate for content and more willing to write about you. Having multiple write ups from upcoming bloggers can can add up to more hits to your site.

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