Promoting Hive to the wider cricket community

Let's get the obvious out of the way, Hive doesn't have a thriving cricket community.

There are a few users around who like the sport and might comment on a blog about it ( @cryptoandcoffee , @birjudanak , @coolguy123 ) but not enough that you could call it a "community" at this point in time.

To overcome this problem I am adopting the approach that if the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.

As well as blogging on Hive I own my own domain dedicated to T20 cricket

https://t20-head-to-head.com/

It's been up for just over 12months and this time of year, right in the peak of the IPL it does pretty well in regards traffic (at least for a small domain run by some guy who has no clue about web design). This week alone I've had over 23,000 unique visitors to my site about 2/3 of whom come via search engine traffic.

Writing content that ranks well on search engines is of course a lot easier on a niche domain like my own than it is on Hive. Also a lot of the content on my site refers to stats and records that need constant updating and of course the blockchain doesn't allow for that.

However, what will, in opinion, work better on Hive than it does on my domain is the day to day blogs and analysis that I post, especially if I can bring a few more cricket lovers over here with me and that is what I'm attempting to do at the moment.

The below shows the number of views that I've had on my blogs via the PeakD front end over the past 7 days

you can view your total views via PeakD here

These in my opinion are pretty good numbers and to put into context, on Thursday the top post on that image above (LSG vs CSK match preview) was the 14th most viewed post on PeakD.com that puts it right up there with some of the biggest projects on Hive like Splinterlands not mention some of the communities top earners.

How I am driving this kind of traffic to Hive?

Simple, I'm still posting my blogs on my domain but just as a snippet with the user needing to follow the link to PeakD to get the full blog

As well as hundreds of people (hopefully thousands by the end of the IPL) being introduced to the Hive community via the awesome PeakD.com I've also managed to recruit 2 new users. I'm hoping that they have some quality content to begin promoting shortly.

While 2 isn't a huge number, I think it's worth remembering that all Hive needs to survive and ultimately thrive is exponential growth. If every user on Hive brought in just 5 new people a year that growth would be off the charts by the end of this decade!