Every site builder seems to ask me how I build sites that seemingly get traffic. The steps are simple but it takes time. Audiences arent built overnight. Or are they?
One of the secret weapons of building your audience is strong and compelling copy. Brian Clark is the uber-wordsmith. I won’t even pretend to act like I know what I’m doing. I got a C- my last year at any level of english and have often been accused of using English as my second language. I don’t even know what my first would be other than possibly AIMspeak.
Lessons learned here:
Another Tool In my Audience Growth Tool Bag is Social News Sites. You might be thinking well isn’t their just to much crap on these social news sites and its pointless to use them? Well you aren’t even close to being right if you think this way. The uber secret is to build a powerful profile on Netscape.com or Reddit and being generous in voting on other sites other sites.
Heres A Kickass Tutorial to Build Super Profiles
The same methodology works on Reddit and Digg just be careful in sending out sitemail. It’s a pain in the arse to deal with.
In no time flat you will have a good sized audience fluttering around 250-350 daily readers. If you keep your site focused on a narrow niche guaranteed.
Originally posted on December 15, 2006 @ 2:30 pm