Ask HN: Those getting 25,000+ Organic Visits a month – How did you do it?

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Quality content is the most important thing.

I also noticed Google sent quite a bit more visitors my way after ditching an old version of Wordpress and migrating to Ghost, likely because pages loaded faster and my site worked on mobile devices. So pick a framework that's fast and mobile friendly.

I checked Google Analytics and saw what topics people were searching for and clicking on the most, which influenced what I wrote about/expanded on in subsequent articles.

How often should you add new content?

What is a good level of content to add?

I am currently trying to add around 1-2 pages a day.. Is that going to take me ages to get traffic from?

I tried to write a quality article once per month. It took me a few years but traffic steadily grew, albeit slowly.

Lots of content. This helps if you are doing SEO or social or anything at all.

But surely just adding content is not going to get you to 25k+ visits a month?

There needs to be more than that right?

The content is the foundation of everything else.

A classic marketing problem is how do you promote a real estate agent in city X? You need links, you need shares, media attention, etc.

Nobody wants to link the business card page of a real estate agent. However, if that real estate agent has a blog and has interesting things to say that can attract people who are searching for many different things, get real links, shares, etc.

Awesome thank you.... So need to build a content plan and keep adding content to the site over time..

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