Ask HN: How to drive traffic to a side project

Re:Ask HN: How to drive traffic to a side project by mooreds on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:47PM (#6918059)

I'm not sure what your traffic goals are, but there are a lots of ways to skin this cat (no cats were harmed in the making of this comment).

Have you:

  * looked in google webmaster tools (and the others, sure, why not) and made sure the googlebot likes what it is seeing
  * considered PPC/adwords?  How about facebook ads?
  * created a facebook page or instagram/twitter account (depending on your demo) and followed people that are interesting to you w/r/t this area?
  * joined communities that are interested in what you are doing--and contributed to them?  (It's not enough to just drop in, leave a link and go.)  Email list, facebook group, web forum, wherever.  I've had success with this, and just a signature block.
  * reached out to bloggers in the same space and offered to do a guest post
  * sent emails to travel writers with helpful info that refers back to your site
  * started a tumblr/linkblog/real blog that can point to this

(I have a side project that gets ~2k visits a month: http://coloradocsas.info/ -- couldn't resist putting that in.)

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Re:Ask HN: How to drive traffic to a side project by hess on Monday December 16, 2013 @05:09PM (#6918189)

Thanks! Thanks for the ideas. Many are good, my favorite is the guest blogging idea.

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Re:Ask HN: How to drive traffic to a side project by mooreds on Monday December 16, 2013 @05:10PM (#6918197)

No worries. Pick something and do it consistently for a while--all of these take time in our attention scarce world--well, all of them except the advertising, which is trading money for time.

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