How do you promote your personal sites?

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I've been struggling getting much traffic to my site. How do you drive traffic to your sites?

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Jesse Houwing • Aug 30 '19 • Edited

Sharing to Twitter and LinkedIn
Making sure my RSS feed is found in Feedly.
Fixed all issues in Google Search Console
Cross referenced posts with my StackOverflow answers
Syndicated to a bunch of blogs with the right metadata
Optimized the keywords in the URL. Even changed a few and added redirects to keep old content.
Moved from a .nl domain to .net
And now syndicated to dev.to.
Moved from Blogger to Ghost.io

C.S. Rhymes • Aug 31 '19

I’ve found writing blog posts on my own site then putting them on dev.to ensuring the canonical url is set helps them appear in search engines. I’ve shared some Laravel specific posts on Laravel news community links has really helped too. It takes time and effort to build a following.

Ice or Fire • Aug 30 '19

I've tried Facebook (some success), Twitter (not much success), and Reddit (varying levels of success).

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How do you promote your personal sites?

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