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David A. Kennedy
Driving More Traffic to Your Site with $20 and Pizza
Yes, the secret is pizza. 🍕 Let me explain. As a customer empathy challenge, the designers at Automattic have dove into coming up with a plan to drive more traffic to a colleague’s post. With a kicker, we also have an imaginary $20 budget to spend on the task. I’ll also share that in another…
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Courtney Burton Doker
Experiments in Driving Traffic
If you follow this blog you likely know that 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. I chose Ashley…
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Rick Banister
Sorry Mom
You know that classic parable about the cobbler’s children having no shoes? The shoemaker is is too busy with other work to provide for his or her own children. This is prevalent in the technology industry too! I last updated my personal “website” almost five years ago. It’s hand-coded html instead of WordPress because I…
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Gary Murray
Learn how I grew my blog readership by 1000% on a $20 budget
With this as your challenge – what do you do: 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. You resort to crazy tactics surely? Like creating click bait worthy blog titles!…
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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
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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