What is it like starting a new tech site?
He notes:
Some individuals get lucky and stumble upon success, while others follow a plan. I can?t help you out with the lucky route, but I can provide you with a plan that will make life a little bit easier. Starting your own blog or site for the first time can be extremely overwhelming because there is a lot of things you have to do. Do you start writing right away? Do you go around asking for links? Do you do link exchanges? Everything you try to do you want to work well, but in the end you usually just end up getting frustrated.
Every week you will follow me on my path to building a successful site.
So what?Well the site hopes to answer the most obvious questions surrounding starting a new site and being recognised - and for all intents and purposes things are going rather well. The site has been on Digg (read about it here) in an early attempt to push the site into familiarity. In agreed fashion he then continues to explain the effects of being on Digg in a very open and honest way (again, available here).
3 straight days on Digg
102,227 visits and 111,224 pageviews in three days with Digg accounting for 85.65% of those figures - not bad going at all. Although we've all discussed the usefulness of Digg visitors it's still quite an epic level of traffic. Read the article here, complete with Google Analytics graphs. This makes for some interesting reading because the author takes a very open and honest approach to this experiment - and actually responds to emails.
Conclusion
I've subscribed to the RSS feed to keep an eye on this experiment because it looks like the author is pulling out all the stops to map out the uncertain roads infront of any aspiring website. I thoroughly recommend a read through of both ExpertIdiot and GeekIdiot because it's not even mid way through month 1 of the experiment. Go check it out.
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