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0 pointsbdg14y ago0 comments

Thanks for the insights, I've been very curious about traffic on blogs such as mine, I intend to make a monthly post that makes my trends transparent so others can see what I do.

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wildbunny14y ago· 2 in thread

If you're interested you can see my traffic graph here:

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2012/01/19/blog-micro-transa...

Its the top graph. I post a lot to reddit, which is where those spikes come from.

So far I haven't managed to post a popular article on HN, although others have posted my articles and they have gotten onto the front page, which is a little annoying. Guess the system rates certain people a lot higher depending on their karma...

bdgOP14y ago

Wow, that's an interesting model for revenue. I'm happy to see it's also a successful one.

I /intend/ to publish 10 posts about the project Euler ( cowbelljs.blogspot.com/2011/12/projecteuler-001.html ), step back and improve on them greatly, adding a lot more detail and clarity such that you could learn some algo/math from them and start offering them as ebooks. I'm not a fan of ads on the blog, simply because google forced them to be excessive and annoying with my template.

wildbunny14y ago

Its getting there slowly - the problem is traffic, as you rightly identified earlier. Its slow to build, takes a lot of time and effort. The spikes from posting on reddit never last, so its either a question of constantly writing quality content and posting it, or having a massive marketing budget :)

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