A guest post is by Hassan Osman for Problogger
Less than a month after I launched my blog, one of my posts got featured on Freshly Pressed—Wordpress.com’s homepage where each weekday, ten posts are selected from around 450,000 new blog posts.
I didn’t even know what Freshly Pressed meant until I saw an email from one of the WordPress editors congratulating me on being featured.
As you might imagine, the traffic results were huge. In the following day or so, I received over 12,000 hits, 150 comments, and 200 new subscribers. I almost fell out of my chair as my inbox filled up with hundreds of “Please moderate” and “New subscriber” messages.
In the six months that followed, my blog was featured again, and again—a total of three times for only eight posts... More...
