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How to get organic traffic to your developer blog.

Christopher Wray on November 04, 2020

As a new developer, I don't feel like I have a lot to share. The reality is that I don't. Many times a day when I am working on building a proj...
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Matt Curcio

Hi Christopher,
I recently found a book that I think is great, Science Blogging.

Ok, you may not want to blog about science but...

I have been recommending it to others even if they are not "INTO" Science Blogs. The advice is great for all bloggers.

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Christopher Wray

Hey, I will have to check that out! Thank you Matt.

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Matt Curcio

Hey C,
How is that job at the FBI treating you? haha.

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Christopher Wray

I wish! That would be nice haha. (:

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

+1 on #2
Taking this one step further if you have a better way to solve the said problem then.

  1. Write a blog about it (ofc)
  2. Answer the question on SO in a brief way and include the link to your blog.

You will get upvotes on answers plus people will visit your site for more in-depth understanding

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Ryan Collins

Be sure to put the entire answer in the answer on SO. SO users will penalize the answer if it doesn't answer the question without visiting the link.

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Christopher Wray

Yes!! Great way of doing it.

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Octavio Amuchástegui

Nice post, spoiler alert: even as senior you will still find yourself looking the answers on google :)

An important note NEVER do this " If you don't want people to see the link, then you can make the color: transparent; in CSS" is agains the rules hiding content with transparent or the same background color and google can penalize your blog more about these rules support.google.com/webmasters/answ...

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Christopher Wray • Edited

Hey thank you for both your comments!

I will remove that sentence out of this. Just learned something and I’m glad you caught that for me!! 😎

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Junxiao Shi

One of my best performing articles is How to Print uint64_t in Arduino. I figured out this trick in 15 minutes. It's surprising how many people are running into the same problem.

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Christopher Wray

Isn’t that amazing? Your article has probably saved thousands of hours of time by now.

It is fun realizing “wow looks like other people don’t just “know” stuff either.”

This has helped me a ton growing out of my inferior complex.

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Erin Bensinger

Nice insight! As a content writer, I couldn't agree more—especially with #4.

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Tomas Sirio

Amazing Post. You seem to be doing great

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Christopher Wray

Thank you! I'm trying! (:

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