Harnessing the Traffic of Lifehacker

Even if you have given up your dreams of making it to the first pages of Digg and Slashdot, there’s lots of traffic out there orbiting the A-list sites, just waiting to be tapped into. I discovered the potential of Lifehacker by chance.

Lifehacker is not too keen on advertising your personal URL — instead, people have to follow a link to your profile, and can get further through there. This discourages many from being helpful and giving comments, since they feel that they are not given enough back. However, there is one underestimated part of commenting: linking to external sites. Which, coincidentally, happen to belong to you.

In the beginning of this year, I tried biphasic sleep. I resigned, though, since it was incompatible with my social life. Very timely, a post showed up on Lifehacker a month later about Power napping. Sharing my experiences, I’ve got 300 hits from that page in less than a month, and my comment was not even among the first five.

The point is that 10 hits a day is a lot for any small blog. I recommend subscribing to Lifehacker, if not for its excellent content, then for this reason. You don’t really need experience, either: just read up quickly on the subject, post a post, post a comment, and watch the traffic rolling in.

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