Top 5 easy tips to get more views 😎🕵️‍♂️

Even though I think there are way too many of these, if you see the top posts this week, month or year they're almost always lists of things.

• "Top 10 ways to improve your app performance"
• "100 CSS animations to do this"
• "10 useful web development tools to do that"

I think they provide good value in condensed form, but IMO they are overused and a lot of the times repetitive. So if your only goal is to get views, maybe try making a post like this, just know that I wont click on it.

Personally, I just try to write the best possible post I can. If it's good enough, people will like it, share it and it'll become popular. If it doesn't get popular (which is most of the time), oh well! I'll be content with just giving good info to a handful of people.

Definitely agree with the first two.

Regarding popular tags, take a look at: dev.to/tags
There's also moderators that apparently can raise the visibility of your posts (potentially increasing views): dev.to/community-moderation#using-...
So, writing "high-quality" articles may net you some moderator love.

External referrals also seem to count, so basic SEO may have an impact. You can see more detailed stats for each post on your dashboard (you may need to click the ellipsis).

It's 100% the title. There's a ton of tips out there to help you boost your blog and one of them is creating a tangible title. Making a "top 5" or "X ways to improve Y" makes it very explicit to the reader what to expect.

I can speak with my experience on youtube so far. The main reason is audience retention. As a content creator, we want viewers to stick around until the last number of the TOP as the video doesn't get promoted to viewers if the content doesn't get watched more than 50% I think at least.

I just published a youtube video a couple of days ago that has the word TOP look at the title 😊 I am quite not very sure now if you are talking about me LOL.

Hey Amelia!
Thanks for the clarification 😊

One thing I know for sure: anything web dev (be it plain JS or React or MERN or whatever) will get a ton of attention. Everything else tends to get buried (in my experience) 🤷🏻‍♀️

That's also my experience, but it seems (didn't check) that the "top [whatever]" lists also get more likes related to other articles with the same tags. It just triggers me so much... and then I just have to know why 🕵️ 😉

Thank you for the post. I learned a lot about how to get more views on my articles, 10 /10 I will read another post.

But seriously, this seems to be a trend lately for everything development-related, and when you open them it's about web dev. I think it can be summarized into these top 3 points:

• Most people want a long article
• Most wants a simple list of steps to follow to achieve greatness
• The path of least resistance. The easiest something is portrayed to be, the more attention it gets

Top 3 of reasons these posts work :

• They are expected to be short
• They are expected to do some curation for you
• They are expected to give you crowd wisdom

According to me the reason is because those posts are very easy to produce and easy to read. There isn't a great amount of text on those pages, you can easily skim through the headlines.

Also they are well known marketing strategies people reproduce without always noticing.

dev.to or other blogging viewers like a summary not a book.

TLDR - give me the details in bullet points and few lines to go with it perhaps

I think:

• Good content.
• Having a posting routine. (Each Monday, for instance).
• Writing to an specific niche.
• Testing. What works best?

dev.to/leamsigc/top-10-monkey-past...
Hey i fallow your steps let see how it goes :D

Maybe because those type of posts are inspirational and full of ideas. It takes all the effort out of searching online for solutions or useful content when someone just puts it in front of you.

fascinating