On: How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App

[chaosmachine]

A good Reddit submission can bring in close to 30K new visitors, in my experience.

[Tritis → chaosmachine]

How many users did you retain after the spike relative to before the reddit submission?

[chaosmachine → Tritis]

Less than 1%.

The user comments were mostly positive (1300 upvotes, 400 downvotes), and the site made a reasonable amount of money from the traffic, but the service was not compelling enough for people to use it daily. That's my fault, though, not Reddit's.

[dpeq → chaosmachine]

So what are the criteria for getting a "good" reddit submission?

[mahmud → dpeq]

A "good" reddit submission is a bad article that makes the rest of your blog look iffy. 30k hits in a day, zero registration.

Seriously, if you want to make a good reddit submission, take an inflammatory/biased/extreme opinion pieces or research and quote the most provocative part of it as the title of your submission. Almost a whole paragraph.