Gathering an audience for a website

>>3408871
What does it look like?

>>3408871
Twitter.
Post links to your news articles marked with relevant hashtags.

What news are you focused on

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>>3408939
can you not see the screenshot?

Google "SEO".

>>3408986
lol

>>3408939
Like Buzzfeed, more or less

>>3408961
>Post links to your news articles marked with relevant hashtags.
This might actually be a good idea!

>>3409013
>Google "SEO".
Already talked with another friend who works in SEO; truth is, they don't do a lot if the website is already optimized to hell (and this one is), they just add websites to catalogues with some mark-up on it.

>>3408871
Everyone else seems to be doing it with Facebook but if you were too stupid to know that then I wouldn't bother. Content and marketing is how a content farm becomes successful. You clearly don't have a passion for the latter so if producing content is something you want to do I'd put myself in line for being passionate about the former. 'Shit-news' doesn't seem very exciting, and it's very crowded.

>>3409142
>Everyone else seems to be doing it with Facebook but if you were too stupid to know that then I wouldn't bother.
Problem with Facebook is that you need to have everything signed under your own name if you're going for marketing stuff on Groups. Fan pages are useless unless you already have an audience.

>>3409134
Then why aren't you Googling variations of "How does buzzfeed get traffic"
https://marketingland.com/facebook-video-snapchat-drive-nearly-half-of-buzzfeeds-views-143138

>27 percent: Facebook native video
>23 percent: Direct to the site or apps
>21 percent: Snapchat content views
>14 percent: YouTube views
>6 percent: Facebook traffic to the site
>4 percent: Images on Facebook
>3 percent: Other distributed platforms
>2 percent: Google search to the site

>>3409169
You have no idea what you're talking about do you?

http://nichehacks.com/niche-marketing-lessons-viral-nova/

>The idea behind the site was simple - Identify and copy potentially viral content from all over the web, write a compelling headline, publish it on the blog, push it forward with Facebook advertisements and hope that it goes viral.

>This simple business model worked so well that Viral Nova reached almost 100 million monthly visitors within months, with over 2 million Facebook fans, and easily makes six figures every month from advertisements and sponsors (in December 2013 alone, DeLong made more than $400,000).

>In its first year, Viral Nova attracted almost 90% of its traffic from Facebook. It still stands at over 50% right now.

BuzzFeed and its clones pay to promote their posts on places like Facebook and in general subsist on social media marketing, creating shareable click-bait.
If you didn't know how to find this out on your own then you should just give up now.

>>3409350
Thank you!

So it seems that most of engagement comes from videos, interesting.

The part with just promoting posts is also interesting, I'll definitely look into that.

I don't see anything wrong with learning, you need to start somewhere, right? I think I'll take the risk, it just feels more appropriate than just letting the whole website die off.

>>3408871
>news

Pick a side: left or right. Tell them exactly what they want to hear.

Done.

>>3409383
I was about to say that I'm sorry for being so pessimistic but I'm glad you didn't take it that way.

BuzzFeed gets it traffic from videos because that's a big part of what they produce. I'd focus more on cloning ViralNova, which sold for $100 million by cloning BuzzFeed. 3 employees.

From what I understand paying to promote your posts lights a match but engagement is what fans the flame
https://www.themoderntog.com/facebook-promote-button-newsfeed-truth/

Still, I think all the effort it would take is better spent on quality content. Companies like Rubin Report and Kinda Funny games are making about $30k a month from Patreon alone. People want good journalism and are willing to pay.

>>3409399
Or
>pick both under two different sites and see what gets more traction