a single source, nothing corroborates it
Check the clock on the new page before you submit
How long your post stays visible depends on how fast the new queue is moving, and the timestamp on the oldest item there measures it exactly. Twenty minutes of headroom means twenty minutes to gather enough votes to escape. Wait for an hour or more of slack before posting.
The method
- 01
Measure your submission window before posting to an aggregator: look at the timestamp of the oldest item on the newest page, and post when the queue is moving slowly
What it returned
If the bottom post on the new tab is twenty minutes old, that is how long you have to gather enough votes; he waits for an hour or more of headroom
Sources
- $39k in eBook Sales Part 2: Design, Testimonials, and TrafficNathan Barry · nathanbarry.com · Finding Traffic · 2012-10-08
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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