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Ask HN: Created a news / culture magazine a month ago. Would love a critique
1 point by lewisflude on June 25, 2012 | hide | past | favorite
The site is http://planetivy.com/.

I thought I'd post here because without the voice of the outside world I'm worry I'll make some pretty obvious mistakes. This is not the first magazine I've worked on in terms of WordPress or hosting (techy guy) but it is the first magazine where I've had the challenge of working out how to increase views to please advertisers.

Although the site is live we are yet to have a launch party. This should be fun and we're planning on getting in touch with some drinks companies to sponsor the event.

We used a bit of black hat magic (against my advice) to quickly gain Facebook fans and Twitter followers which seems to be brining in a nice amount of traffic. You'd be surprised what people are searching for!

Any resources that you think I may find useful being in this position would be appreciated!




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