No upvotes? No problem!

I’ve just passed the one year mark with DiveIntoThePool.com, I couldn’t be more thrilled and the first thing I did after a little dance was share my one year post with a couple of social bookmarking sites, you can see the posts I put on Hacker News and Reddit. Hacker News stayed at the initial 1 vote and Reddit actually went down to 0! I also posted it up to my Twitter account but I tracked those click-throughs via bit.ly and only had 7 visitors from there.

Hacker News and Reddit, despite getting no up votes and actually a down vote on Reddit sent over 100 visitors to my blog. This blog doesn’t see 100 visitors a month. So while I was initially disappointed by the response I was in for a plesant surprise when I got home today.

If your submissions don’t get any upvotes, don’t worry, you’ll still get folks clicking and reading!