How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App

[jreposa]

The KillerStartups requires a ton of information, so you have to be comfortable giving all of that away.

It's more of an experiment though, since our traffic is already seeing a steady uptick.

[chaosmachine]

A good Reddit submission can bring in close to 30K new visitors, in my experience.

[Tritis]

How many users did you retain after the spike relative to before the reddit submission?

[dpeq]

So what are the criteria for getting a "good" reddit submission?

[brandnewlow]

How the heck does a "Full featured, open-source communication platform that includes e-mail, calendar, file management and contacts into a single page" get 474 referrals from Wikipedia?

[dmat]

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+6zap

By choosing a name that floats to the top in an alphabetical listing :-).

[ucdaz]

You might want to focus on smaller bloggers since they're more desperate for content and more willing to write about you. Having multiple write ups from upcoming bloggers can can add up to more hits to your site.