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How High Signal Grew

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How did High Signal grow?

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High Signal grew through multiple channels including organic social media, email list growth, SEO, and word of mouth. SEO has been a significant growth channel, bringing in about ten times more traffic than Twitter, leading to a focus on SEO improvements such as optimizing URLs and meta descriptions. The website also experienced a large traffic spike after sharing content on Hacker News, which brought about 49,000 visitors in a few days.

Channels

8 channels · grouped by how High Signal grows

  • SEO

    · 4 mentions · 4 sources
    “I have also taken some steps with SEO recently. My URLs used to be so long and would contain superfluous words like “to” or “and”. Now they are aimed at keywords so I have things like software-engineer-salary in the URL and then those words in the title and meta description as well.”
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    “Google brings in 10x more traffic for me than Twitter I'm gonna focus on SEO in 2022”
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    “Google brings in 10x more traffic for me than Twitter I'm gonna focus on SEO in 2022”
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    “2k monthly visitors from SEO”
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  • Email List Growth

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “As a blog, I have to attract more visitors to be appealing to sponsors. From the beginning, I had a newsletter and that’s been a good way of keeping people engaged. I get about 30% of subscribers from an exit pop-up.”
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    “$14,603.05 💰 94 interview with developers published 📖 4,500 email subscribers ✉️ 211,000 page views 👀 Lots more to come in year 2! 😎”
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    “9375 email subs with high open rates”
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  • Organic social media

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “I also get a lot of website traffic from social media. My Twitter account is popular and has over 5,500 followers.”
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    “8,000 ish Twitter followers”
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  • Email marketing

    · 1 mention
    “So I will send emails to previous sponsors every so often and see if they want to do another deal.”
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  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “I have a lot of goodwill from developers without CS degrees which helps the website a lot. It’s something people like to share with their friends. It’s positive content.”
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  • LinkedIn

    · 1 mention
    “I’ve also had success getting newsletter sponsors from making posts on LinkedIn as well.”
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  • Product Hunt

    · 1 mention
    “My launch started on Product Hunt. I didn’t get to no 1 which I had done the year previously with another newsletter. I was disappointed at the time but it was still in the top 10 so in hindsight, it did pretty well.”
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  • Hacker News

    · 1 mention
    “What really kicked things off was sharing No CS Degree on Hacker News! It went straight to the top of the board and stayed there all day. I got a huge spike in traffic with about 49,000 people visiting the website in a few days.”
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How 2,705 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — High Signal’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68% ◀
  • Social media
    60% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57% ◀
  • Email
    48% ◀
  • Community
    34% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    32%
  • Partnerships
    31%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    9%
  • Product expansion
    2%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2%
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