a single source, nothing corroborates it
Decide what the upvotes are meant to buy
Votes are a currency you trade for traffic, and the traffic only counts if the page behind it converts. A hundred votes producing a hundred signups beats a thousand votes landing on a page that produces none. Pick the downstream number before launch day and aim the whole listing at it.
The method
- 01
Pick the downstream outcome you actually want from launch day and treat upvotes only as a currency you trade for traffic, not as the scoreboard.
What it returned
- 100
Author argues 100 upvotes producing 100 signups beats 1,000 upvotes landing on a page that converts nobody.
Sources
- How I got 2,000 new subscribers from Product HuntHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · Step 2 - My goal · undated
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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