Ask HN: How do you build an audience?

Re:Ask HN: How do you build an audience? by NovemberWest on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:21PM (#5913841)

That is a necessary but insufficient criteria. I have original content. I still have no audience. I have more traffic than I used to, but I am still trying to work out just what am I missing? Because an awful lot of pat answers over the years have failed to solve my traffic problems.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you build an audience? by alanchavez on Thursday June 20, 2013 @09:14PM (#5915935)

Start collecting your visitor's emails, that's how you start building an audience.

Forget about SEO right now, you don't want really want more traffic, you want conversion rate.

I know people who own websites with hundreds of thousands of visitors per month, but almost 0% conversion rate.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you build an audience? by lifeguard on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:33PM (#5913933)

OK, good. I think these are excellent books on SEM:

"Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day" by Jennifer Grappone

"Getting Noticed on Google" by Ben Norman

And if it isn't measured, it isn't managed:

"Scientific Advertising" Claude C. Hopkins

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Re:Ask HN: How do you build an audience? by NovemberWest on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:57PM (#5914116)

Thanks! I will see what I can do, though e-books and websites are better for me (for medical reasons -- I don't do so well with paper books).

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