We are relatively new to HN and blogging. We have been playing around with various methods to drive and keep traffic to our blog (wordpress). This includes typical social media and a small experiment with Adwords. Traffic has remained low (zero).<p>Recently we posted a link in this forum and received a large spike in traffic (thanks!). However no one visited any other part of the blog and traffic has dropped off. We are aware this its a common problem. How can it be solved? Why did it happen?<p>Our own assumptions are that 1 content did not excite, 2 user behaviour (not likely to go past linked page).<p>How have you built up a following?How did your break through moment happen?
Getting traffic is not an easy thing. My website (now) gets around 1000-2000 visitors a day. I started posting it on facebook, and other social sites but this is limited to my friends and family. Then I tried to post it on Reddit and Digg but had the same as yours (traffic spikes). My break through happened when I posted A video on youtube it had around 700k hits on youtube this gave me a steady daily visitors. Also, as your blog content gets bigger and bigger, it will have more chances to get organic hits. Hope this one helped and good luck.