How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App

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33 points·dmytton··10 comments

The KillerStartups requires a ton of information, so you have to be comfortable giving all of that away.

It's more of an experiment though, since our traffic is already seeing a steady uptick.

A good Reddit submission can bring in close to 30K new visitors, in my experience.

How many users did you retain after the spike relative to before the reddit submission?

Less than 1%.

The user comments were mostly positive (1300 upvotes, 400 downvotes), and the site made a reasonable amount of money from the traffic, but the service was not compelling enough for people to use it daily. That's my fault, though, not Reddit's.

So what are the criteria for getting a "good" reddit submission?

A "good" reddit submission is a bad article that makes the rest of your blog look iffy. 30k hits in a day, zero registration.

Seriously, if you want to make a good reddit submission, take an inflammatory/biased/extreme opinion pieces or research and quote the most provocative part of it as the title of your submission. Almost a whole paragraph.

How the heck does a "Full featured, open-source communication platform that includes e-mail, calendar, file management and contacts into a single page" get 474 referrals from Wikipedia?

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+6zap

By choosing a name that floats to the top in an alphabetical listing :-).

Reason #4 for why I should name my kid "1Aaron".

You might want to focus on smaller bloggers since they're more desperate for content and more willing to write about you. Having multiple write ups from upcoming bloggers can can add up to more hits to your site.

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