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Ask HN: Where do you post your blog post?

by mr_o47 on 9/20/23, 5:20 PM with 30 comments

Hello HN,

Whenever you write a blog post where do you share it with other individuals who might find your content helpful

  • by consoomer on 9/21/23, 11:36 AM

    I used to blog and share it. Sharing on HN is a waste as your account will get shadow banned for posting to the same domain in a row, so you have to spread it out between sharing random other links which feels scummy.

    Sharing it on Reddit will likely get you banned/removed from a subreddit. Sharing it on dev.to will get you almost no views and maybe one comment from newbie developers. Never tried sharing on Twitter as I don't have one, but I imagine it's like sharing on anything else.

    Sharing on LinkedIn works for engagement in groups if your topic is relevant to groups, but I found people will engage with my post (thumbs up, comment, etc) but very few people actually click the link and read your post.

    Most traffic comes from Google, and I have no idea if those readers got what they came for.

    I ultimately stopped writing and sharing. I removed all of my writing. I don't think it's worth the time or effort unless I find a better reason to write/share.

    If you want people to find your content and read it, it's probably the wrong reason.

  • by DarrenDev on 9/20/23, 7:25 PM

    LinkedIn.

    But I don't post a link to the post on LinkedIn, I post the content as a text post and link from the blog to the LinkedIn post for comments.

    This generates far more activity than a link to a blog post would.

    LinkedIn has a very targeted audience (assuming you've built up the audience), which means posts there can gain traction and spread very quickly and lead to real world discussions with real people.

    Example: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darrendevitt_fhir-hl7-azure-a...

    Blog: https://benigninteroperability.com/theres-a-gap-in-the-fhir-...

  • by fhqwhgads on 9/20/23, 5:35 PM

    I usually post my stuff to medium so it's already got an audience. Dropped my standalone blog a few years ago. I'll also share it on LinkedIn and Twitter (at least I used to before it became a hellfire). I've also got a newsletter so will drop it there.

    If you can get one good newsletter to include a link, you can usually pick up a few more, since the same stuff will often show up on a bunch of different newsletters.

  • by mattbgates on 9/22/23, 8:17 PM

    In the beginning, I used to post my blog posts anywhere I could or thought was relevant.

    For the longest time, Twitter was where it was at til they banned my account a year ago after someone logged in and posted random crypto shit, and they won't unban me as of X.

    Occasionally, I post on my Facebook or LinkedIn. And once in a while on Hacker News, if relevant, though rare.

    Other than that... with 2 to 3 million visits a month from around the world, along with hundreds of contributing authors and marketing agencies, they tend to share everything.

    With an existence of over 10 years, the website has its own reputation and fan base, attracting thousands of new visitors every month. Its focus is on jobs, careers, and the workplace. To date, I think 800 articles are my own, and the other 4,000 belong to other people.

    https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com

  • by kusha on 9/20/23, 10:07 PM

    I post on a personal website I created and then cross post that link around to relevant places. I find that niche topics will produce lots of organic traffic and eventually even backlinks (people linking to your post).

    As long as it's niche enough, write about it, and they will come.

    Disclaimer, I get XX traffic a week. Nothing noteworthy but it makes me so happy that people read my posts.

  • by eetus on 9/20/23, 9:49 PM

    I have a hobby blog that doesn't have to do with coding, but I post on substack. I enjoy the features on substack, but I would advise that you set up a custom domain if you post to substack.

  • by LinuxBender on 9/20/23, 5:56 PM

    HN motivates what I write on a blog especially if the topic comes up a lot and for reasons of being lazy I don't want to make a really long wordy comment I can just link to my poorly worded blog. This is useful if I want to revise my comment as one can not edit comments here after a couple hours thus making my low-caffeine typos immutable. I don't link my awful blog posts anywhere else though, just HN and only in response to threads/comments. And in my profile as with many others here.

  • by electroagenda on 9/21/23, 9:41 PM

    My case is a bit weird cause I have way more followers on Instagram than in the social media where I share the links.

    Lately I am sharing them in:

    - Reddit (own subreddit) and later I crosspost to relevant subreddits.

    - Facebook Page - Twitter - Linkedin "Company" Page: For these last three I use a wordpress plugin that repost automatically the old content from time to time. Honestly, the strategy is not yet providing many followers.

    I am also building a newsletter.

  • by pamoroso on 9/20/23, 5:42 PM

    I share my blog posts only on Mastodon.

  • by PaulHoule on 9/20/23, 5:27 PM

    Pro Tip: It's fine to submit your blog post here but if you submit nothing but posts to your blog and no links to other sites all your postings will start out in flagged/dead status unless somebody else vouches for them. Don't be that guy.

  • by warthog on 9/22/23, 8:14 PM

    Notion hosted through super.so

    I don't like using 56 different editors and storage for text which ends up happening when you share content on Linkedin, Twitter, Community forums, blogs (personal and business), Reddit, HN

  • by Tepix on 9/21/23, 6:33 PM

    For travel blog posts i like FindPenguins. In particular you can send your friends a private link and they can comment on your posts without having to create an account. Also posts don't have to be public that way.

  • by nikonyrh on 9/20/23, 11:42 PM

    I just commit and push to github. Then maybe I share it at the company's slack. My blog is more of a collection of articles to refer to in the future when an opportunity arises, rather than trying to gain immediate attention.

  • by manuelmoreale on 9/20/23, 7:31 PM

    Personally nowhere. It’s delivered via web, RSS, and email. If other people with blogs find it interesting it might get posted by them on their websites.

    And at times people post my content here on HN but I’d never do it myself.

  • by fabianholzer on 9/20/23, 9:05 PM

    Well, when the Indieweb credo is POSSE - Post on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, mine is POS. I am terrible at marketing, and if I'm on them at all, I am basically a lurker on the classical social media.

  • by stringtoint on 9/20/23, 9:57 PM

    So far I've used Medium.com but I rarely find the time to blog these days. I was considering dev.to as you can rather easily convert a Medium blog post to Markdown which dev supports.

  • by ezedv on 9/21/23, 1:55 PM

    I post them usually here: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog

  • by mwinatschek on 9/20/23, 9:22 PM

    I share my blog posts via RSS, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Substack, and X - at least until Musk wants me to pay money for the last one.

  • by asicsp on 9/21/23, 6:09 AM

    Twitter, Reddit (subreddits like commandline, linux, etc), on HN occasionally, and also a programming newsletter that I email weekly.

  • by whatamidoingyo on 9/20/23, 5:29 PM

    You can guest post on other blogs, such as blog.javascripttoday.com. They'll handle the rest for you. :)

    Email: contact (at) javascripttoday.com

  • by vitalsea on 9/21/23, 8:04 PM

    Using blogspot with custom domain. It is free and connect Google Adsense with ease.

  • by mikewarot on 9/20/23, 9:44 PM

    I've got a few really old blogs on Blogspot, then Twitter and/or Facebook.

  • by bilsbie on 9/20/23, 8:36 PM

    X.com might be a good option now with long form content posting, great reach.