Last week one of my projects made it to #12 on reddit.com (from /r/InternetIsBeautiful), and I’ve had sites or blogposts do well on ProductHunt, Reddit, and here on HN in the past.
What are the best ways to make use of surges of traffic like this?
Getting 250,000+ hits helps with search ranking, but I don’t run ads, so it doesn’t translate directly into revenue. It’d make sense to use it to grow a mailing list for future projects, but traffic from link aggregators converts 90% worse than normal referral / search traffic. So I have two questions:
1. What do you do when one of your sites does well on HN / Reddit / Producthunt?
2. Is there any way to improve the abysmal optin rate that usually goes along with link aggregator traffic?
Thanks!