Hello all.
I started a tech news satire website about six months ago. It's called the Bay Area Tribune and it satirizes work life inside tech companies (think Google, Facebook).
While I think there's a readership out there for people who want to laugh about tech companies, there's been very few readers and visitors.
I have an accompanying FB page and have been running ads here and there (pumping articles and a generalized campaign to get more 'likes' on my page), but I haven't been getting the traffic that I've been hoping to get.
Some brief numbers: I get about 300 clicks/visits out of 2000 (paid) impressions. I run maybe $1/day per article pump and a similar amount for the generalized ad campaign.
When I pump articles, I can expect about 30-40 views a day. When I don't pump, I get a measly 1-3 visits. So it seems money is required for growth and it's pay-to-play.
There have been times when an article has been shared and I rocketed from 40 views/day to 300 views/day, so maybe there's a chance of going viral. But nothing significant so far.
Wondering if these numbers mean I should keep going or curtail the project altogether.
Does anyone have any advice for growth?
link for reference: https://www.bayareatribune.com
Submitted January 27, 2020 at 02:24PM by AlarmingCommon https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/euxe0n/started_a_tech_satire_website_but_am_getting_very/?utm_source=ifttt
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