The best way I've found to get people to visit is to put your blog posts out on platforms where potential readers might be.
Hacker News is great for any kind of tech related post, and any similar-ish type content.
LinkedIn if you have a large following is a great place to post as well, make sure to add the relevant hashtags to your post's topics so that others who paruse those interests might see them.
Subreddits relevant to the post content are always a good way to go, and there really is a subreddit for anything, so that can be a driver of traffic.
Also, make sure once you have people on a given post to _ask them to subscribe_ you need to have a call to action at the end of your post in order to remind people that you exist, that your writing is interesting, and that they might want to see more. It feels a little weird, but a single sentence at the end can help people take that leap.
That said, its a giant crapshoot. I posted a blog post[1] around the same time that you did for this AskHN post, and sometimes you get engagement, and sometimes you dont. This time I wasnt so lucky, but if you're consistent, I'd say about half the time you get decent enough engagement.
How much difference does call to action make, not in relative terms, but absolute terms?
I sometimes wonder if we're overestimating the value because adding one bumps your subscribers by 10x, but what that means is that instead of 10 subscribers you get 100.
Hacker News is great for any kind of tech related post, and any similar-ish type content.
LinkedIn if you have a large following is a great place to post as well, make sure to add the relevant hashtags to your post's topics so that others who paruse those interests might see them.
Subreddits relevant to the post content are always a good way to go, and there really is a subreddit for anything, so that can be a driver of traffic.
Also, make sure once you have people on a given post to _ask them to subscribe_ you need to have a call to action at the end of your post in order to remind people that you exist, that your writing is interesting, and that they might want to see more. It feels a little weird, but a single sentence at the end can help people take that leap.
That said, its a giant crapshoot. I posted a blog post[1] around the same time that you did for this AskHN post, and sometimes you get engagement, and sometimes you dont. This time I wasnt so lucky, but if you're consistent, I'd say about half the time you get decent enough engagement.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267389