Hythology: going west

As I wrote, we recently launched the non-commercial project Gythology .

The idea is not bad, everyone likes it, so I, as one of the authors of the project, naturally wanted to tell everyone everything about this idea ...

Well, firstly, I told everyone about this project, and secondly, my employees sent this link to their contacts, and thirdly, we posted a post on Advertorial.ru, and on Habré .
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Then, I decided to promote the idea abroad and after long torment I posted the news on digg.com. In the process, I realized that this is a monstrous site that supposedly allows you to publish any social news, but in fact, there were many people like me there, so my news immediately went down a few pages. Thus, my access to the open Internet did not take place) -:

And, I forgot, I also placed an advertisement in the Yandex.Direct using the keywords a gift, March 8, the new year ... and so on.

All the above actions gave about 200-400 visitors per day, but this result naturally did not suit me, therefore, I decided to engage in hyphalology more vigorously.

Remained after work, made a standard set in a notebook (email, project name, text description in Russian and English. Languages), so that each time not to re-enter the data in the questionnaire.



So, I started looking for sites where you can post news about a new project for free ...

Started with foreign.

Here I found a list of western social media- oriented sites www.aucklandseo.com/2008/01/17/social_news_websites ( see the list below). Opened all the links at once, began to register.

Separately, it is worth noting the generally brainless and ill-conceived usability of Western resources. I am from these sickening questionnaire bangers. The sites themselves are oversaturated with spam and all sorts of nonsense, it’s not interesting to read them directly. But I wonder where they have such attendance from?

Well, okay, live in a flock, howl in wolves.

I started copying my news and half of the sites simply did not accept them for one reason or another, somewhere not enough time had passed since the registration, somewhere my rating was not great enough, but somewhere I just did not figure out how to publish news.

In short, the most effective site, from those where we managed to publish the news, was http://www.reddit.com/ . Immediately after posting, as many as 15 people have entered the site! And perhaps this is an exception, rather than the rule.

Then I went over to the Russian sites. I notice that among Russians there are three types of 1- thriving sites 2 - rotting startups 3 - and those who give 404 errors. Type 1 is the most pleasant, these include sites like Habra and Derti.ru. The rest is all bullshit. After sending 10 news I did not receive a single transition to the site. By the way, here is a list of Russian sites where you can post news http://community.livejournal.com/smo_ru/32088.html .

So, the process started, I sent out the news. If attendance does not grow at least twice, I will assume that my plan failed.

But in this case, I have a plan B. But I’ll tell you about it most likely next year. And now, already 12 at night, it's time to go home, sleep a minute.

List of Western sites

1. Reddit: a popular social news site with a large community. The site has special sections called subreddits that focus on specific topics, such as programming, science, politics, and business.

Reddit

2. Digg: The largest and most popular social news site on the Internet.

Digg

3. Propeller: A social news site that covers all topics, from politics to entertainment. It works on the same principle as Digg.

Propeller

4. Fark: A news site that allows users to comment on the added news. The links provided by users will be posted on the main page, immediately after approval by the administration.

Fark

5. Slashdot: Primarily a technological news site, Slashdot also covers topics like books, games, politics and entertainment. Users can submit articles to be published after approval by the editors. A popular site with which you can get a bunch of traffic for your projects.

Slashdot

6. Metafilter: A site that allows users to exchange links and discuss interesting sites and articles.

Metafilter

7. I am bored: The site covers general topics, with a special focus on strange and unusual news. You can send a link that will be posted after the editor approves it.

Bored

8. Mixx: A social news site on general topics. The site has the ability to create groups to share news with other users.

Mixx

9. Shoutwire: The site covers topics such as politics, entertainment and sports.

Shoutwire

10. Newsvine:

Newsvine

11. IndianPad
12. Linkfilter
13. NewsCloud
14. Hugg
15. Plime
16. C2NN
17. Sk * rt
18. Nowpublic
19. Stirrdup
20. Searchles
21. Linkinn
22. Earthfrisk
23. Truemors
24. StumbleUpon

Niche social news sites

25. Sphinn
26. Dzone
27. Tweako
28. Autospies
29. Design Float
30. Ball Hype
31. YCombinator Hacker News
32. SWiK
33. Buzzflash
34. DNHour
35. PlugIM
36.Showhype
37. Small Business Brief
38. Hypediss
39. Chictini
40. DotNetKicks
41. Lipstick
42. Hubspot
43. Winelifetoday
44. iliketotallyloveit.com
45. Wordsy
46. ​​Value Investing News
47. Teenwag