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Ballio Chan
The shortcut for getting 1000 views
For this installation of the Automattic Design blog post, we are doing something different. As an empathy challenge, we are tasked to think about a common question our customers face, “How do I get more views?” This is important because views are a basic metric to seeing how popular a website is. With a $20…
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ashleyvonclausburg
Can you succeed in blogging without really trying?
As it is probably apparent by glancing through this blog, the designers at Automattic were given a user empathy challenge. Our task was to pick one of our fellow designers’ blog posts and come up with a plan to get it over 1,000 views on a financial budget of $20 and a time budget of…
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Eduardo Villuendas
How can I get visitors?
All right, I’ve just published a post on my brand new, pretty much completely unknown blog, and I want to get some visits. A thousand would be great. Why not? I’ve worked a bunch of hours on my posts and setting everything up, and I really want other people to see it. It’s reasonable. I’m…
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Shaun Andrews
How to get more eyeballs.
The commoditization of eyeballs — bought and sold with every click and tap — has brought us into a new era of the internet. Its no longer a hippy haven of happiness. Its about money. And more page views (eyeballs) means more money. Get more views, get more subscribers, get more followers — and then…
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Jan Cavan Boulas
How to achieve overnight success
The designers at Automattic were given a challenge: to pick a colleague’s post and outline a plan for it to get 1,000+ page views with only a $20 budget. Several years ago, I blogged a lot. I mostly wrote tutorials and gave away free design resources. My first ever design tutorial fortunately got picked up…
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Laurel Fulford
I still don’t really know how to get website traffic
Despite having three whole months, I managed to put off finalizing this quarter’s blog post until the last minute. The topic? 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’m far…
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Michael Arestad
1000
Goal: Get 1000 page views on a blog post with $20 to spend I have several hypothesis to achieve this goal. I think the cumulative effect of most can be measured independently in order to determine their contribution to the success or failure of this goal. For this hypothetical post, I’ll be expressing how I…
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marinawoo
How to grow the reach of Ashley’s post with a sticky highlight
How to grow an audience is quite literally a million dollar question. Where there is a gathered audience, there is a group one can build relationship with, talk to about a product or service, and when the right time comes – monetize. Having an audience is a valuable thing, but how does one get and…
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Ashleigh Axios
Growing Your Blog’s Audience & Increasing Engagement
Whether you blog for fun or to add value to a business, your blog can be one of your greatest assets and one of your most valuable marketing tools. You can use it to build trust with your customers, generate leads, educate, hone your communication skills, and build brand awareness. Once you get into a…
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Zé Marques
Buying views with coffee
At Automattic we love to experiment, and as part of an initiative to be more empathetic with our customers we were posed with 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…
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