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Filippo Di Trapani
Driving more traffic to my blog
I have been running my blog for a little over a year now and after getting over the fear of writing content, the next biggest challenge I ran into was driving traffic to it. It seems I did something right with one of my posts that brings in one or two organic visitors a day but…
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Kjell Reigstad
There’s no trick to getting 1,000 views
Last month, the designers at Automattic were given the following challenge: Pick a colleague’s post, and explain why you chose that one. Outline a plan for the post to get 1,000+ views. Imagine that you have a US $20 budget to work with. As a member of our Editorial team, I’m in a privileged place…
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Ola Bodera
Theme Wrangler’s Toolset
One of the things I love about my job, is that it sits at an intersection of product design and front-end development. This means I get to practise both, and my job is always interesting. Although I’m both a designer and front-end developer, my toolset is fairly small, and many of the apps are universally useful…
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Mark Uraine
Building relationships can help build page views
In an effort to empathize with our customers, we at Automattic attempt to tackle real world problems that our customers face in their journey toward success. The problem I’m looking at today is how to get more page views on an existing blog post with a budget of $20? It’s pretty much a problem that…
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sixhours
“How can I get more views to my blog?”
At work, we were recently asked to examine a common problem among bloggers of all types: how to get more views. As someone who has been blogging since before it was called “blogging”, web traffic is still a bit of a black box to me. Any success I’ve had has been the result of persistence…
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James Koster
Shooting for the stars – falling back to Earth
Over the last couple of years I’ve watched a good friend of mine develop a keen interest in astronomy. He’s purchased numerous telescopes and other gadgets that have enabled him to produce some impressive amateur astrophotography. Leo is a technically savvy chap. By day he’s a graphic designer. He uses a modern smart phone. Obviously…
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Maria Scarpello
An Experiment to Gain 1,000 Page Views
As a few posts have mentioned already, the empathy challenge presented by John Maeda this month has asked us to: Speak about how to grow an audience for an existing blog post with the following parameters: Pick a colleague’s post, and explain why you chose that one. Outline a plan for the post to get…
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Tammie
What is in a space designer’s toolkit?
Star date -304979.5527650938. Space designers are landing on planets, exploring, meeting inhabitants and charting the resources. What do space designers carry in their backpacks? What are the essentials to get the job done that you need when traversing the design universe? The planets? Within Automattic a lot of work is going on right now to…
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Erin Casali
I’m just starting! What’s the first step to more page views?
It’s an exciting journey to have a project going. Maybe it’s a side passion, maybe it’s a desire to do something for others, maybe it’s a business blossoming… when it gets online it always reaches a point where one has to face the question “how do I get more people interested in what I do?”…
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Joen A.
What comes first? The audience, or the views?
The goal of WordPress, from the very start, has been to democratize publishing: to give anyone the freedom to have their voice on the web. But what is a voice without an audience? If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? The design team at Automattic often run empathy challenges. They…
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