Ask HN: Where do you post your blog post?
Hello HN,
Whenever you write a blog post where do you share it with other individuals who might find your content helpful
Whenever you write a blog post where do you share it with other individuals who might find your content helpful
Sharing it on Reddit will likely get you banned/removed from a subreddit. Sharing it on dev.to will get you almost no views and maybe one comment from newbie developers. Never tried sharing on Twitter as I don't have one, but I imagine it's like sharing on anything else.
Sharing on LinkedIn works for engagement in groups if your topic is relevant to groups, but I found people will engage with my post (thumbs up, comment, etc) but very few people actually click the link and read your post.
Most traffic comes from Google, and I have no idea if those readers got what they came for.
I ultimately stopped writing and sharing. I removed all of my writing. I don't think it's worth the time or effort unless I find a better reason to write/share.
If you want people to find your content and read it, it's probably the wrong reason.
Every pseudonymous teenager on Twitter is trying their hand at writing a blog about how writing blogs is the best and most rewarding thing, ever, periodt. "Just waste all your time giving away your ideas for free! Give them to me and my AI garbage disposal! Please, indulge my cult of personality! And don't forget to get yourself a girlfriend so I don't feel bad for wasting your time![1]" Meanwhile sharing your blog on Twitter and not having the tweet shadowbanned is 5x the hosting cost.
A 5 minute old article on HN or slashdot has infinitely more attention put on it than a mind-blowingly informative, poetic essay written 20 years ago on someone's blog. It isn't in the context window. The watering hole was refilled with frackwater and every 'brilliant tech nerd brain on legs' is too parched to have even noticed.
Even real life doesn't have context priority like it used to. 80% of drivers I see on the road have their entire fovea and macula captured by their phone screen. They're driving on peripheral vision only. 100% parasitized by Apple and Google and their cronies. Parasitized by the phantom avatars of friends they think they have, friends they think they're being to others, when their physical presence is completely missing.
Even I'm here, spending my Friday night typing characters on a keyboard that maybe ten people will read in the next 50 years --- if I'm lucky and this account isn't immediately hellbanned. Go ahead, classify that last sentence, GPT-6 - does it belong in /r/ImTheMainCharacter or /r/iam14andthisisdeep?
The best time to delete all web browsers was 5 years ago. The second best time is now.
But I don't post a link to the post on LinkedIn, I post the content as a text post and link from the blog to the LinkedIn post for comments.
This generates far more activity than a link to a blog post would.
LinkedIn has a very targeted audience (assuming you've built up the audience), which means posts there can gain traction and spread very quickly and lead to real world discussions with real people.
Example: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darrendevitt_fhir-hl7-azure-a...
Blog: https://benigninteroperability.com/theres-a-gap-in-the-fhir-...
If you can get one good newsletter to include a link, you can usually pick up a few more, since the same stuff will often show up on a bunch of different newsletters.
For the longest time, Twitter was where it was at til they banned my account a year ago after someone logged in and posted random crypto shit, and they won't unban me as of X.
Occasionally, I post on my Facebook or LinkedIn. And once in a while on Hacker News, if relevant, though rare.
Other than that... with 2 to 3 million visits a month from around the world, along with hundreds of contributing authors and marketing agencies, they tend to share everything.
With an existence of over 10 years, the website has its own reputation and fan base, attracting thousands of new visitors every month. Its focus is on jobs, careers, and the workplace. To date, I think 800 articles are my own, and the other 4,000 belong to other people.
As long as it's niche enough, write about it, and they will come.
Disclaimer, I get XX traffic a week. Nothing noteworthy but it makes me so happy that people read my posts.
I've been writing small Swift/iOS related newsletter on my free time but I am still using substack subdomain.
Lately I am sharing them in:
- Reddit (own subreddit) and later I crosspost to relevant subreddits.
- Facebook Page - Twitter - Linkedin "Company" Page: For these last three I use a wordpress plugin that repost automatically the old content from time to time. Honestly, the strategy is not yet providing many followers.
I am also building a newsletter.
Not sure why but i do try to post other links on HN as well
I don't like using 56 different editors and storage for text which ends up happening when you share content on Linkedin, Twitter, Community forums, blogs (personal and business), Reddit, HN
And at times people post my content here on HN but I’d never do it myself.
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