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Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?

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Post by dontbenebby »

nope. i opted myself out of the wayback machine and have obliterated my online precedence as much as possible.

for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief moment that we'd all kind of live in arcologies with solar powered desalination or something and instead... [tabs over to Al Jazeera] yikes!! russia are JERKs.

strive to be the ghost in the machine if you want to be a hacker.

Re: Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?

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Post by baremetal »

rozenmd wrote: post #5

I share links to my blog about React on forums/twitter if it helps the person asking a question (my hack for this is that if I see a common enough question, I write an article for next time I see it)

That is both helpful to people and good marketing.

Good work.

Re: Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?

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Post by skwee357 »

I usually post articles from my blog[0] in relevant sub reddits and here on HN.

I also try to write high quality content, and about things I worked with or encountered-thus hitting relevant Google terms, which in turn brings me a little bit of organic traffic.

[0] https://yieldcode.blog

Re: Ask HN: Do you promote your personal blog? How?

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Post by surprisetalk »

# First, write what nobody else can.

Take your experiences and your knowledge your distinct flavor and distill it into a potent package.

For an example, check out my essay currently on the front-page:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259588

It also helps to "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" (POSSE). This gives you a nice balance of freedom and control over your online identity.

[2] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

This essay provides great advice on finding things to write about:

[3] https://www.benkuhn.net/writing

# Second, be helpful (and opportunistic).

In order to be helpful, you must (1) know stuff and (2) share it.

To learn stuff, read voraciously and write obsessively.

To share things, be everywhere first. I have a bunch of keyword notifications to help people in my fields of expertise.

If you can't be there first, be there better. Hone skills that are difficult to ignore.

[4] https://hnrss.github.io

# Third, don't be annoying.

This takes finesse, and I'm personally still trying to find the balance.

People will signal to you when you're not wanted. Listen to those messages and cool down. Other people are generally not your problem.

Here's an example of how to be annoying:

[5] https://taylor.town

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