This chapter looks at a couple of basic techniques for generating traffic on a blog or web site, following the previous chapter about creating a blog. The chapters are written as self-contained experiments. Ultimately, you need traffic in order to be able to look at analytics, so this chapter describes a few ways to generate traffic.
Basic Social Media Promotion
One of the easiest ways to get some test traffic
to your blog or web site is by sharing a link to a post on any social media accounts you have. (If you don’t have any, I suggest signing up for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). ...
