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[trilby]

OK so I have started up facebook, twitter and a website to log progress with my game development but the question is how does one go about building up the right following.  Sure I could go on facebook and post "can everyone I know like my page please" but 90% of people wont be remotely interested in the content just doing it as a favor.  Only started the pages 2 days ago as well so there is next to no content on them yet but still think starting to get followers is important early on!  Any tips anyone?

[RudyTheDev]

Make quality content. Get a spell-checker.

[trilby]

What and people just come flooding in from nowhere?!  Cant see it somehow.  It's more a question of what routes are available to get the word out there?

[RudyTheDev]

It's a million dollar question, man. Everyone wants an easy answer to that one -- how do I drive traffic to my website for <topic>. Read some of the previous posts, and you'll get an idea how diverse opinions are. 5/20 recent topics in Business are basically about this very subject.

But there are certain commonalities, two of these being quality content and professional presentation. It's a first step. You are not on the wrong path. I clicked your site and the last post (at the time) had 3 sentences and 4 grammar errors. Say you do bring a 1000 unique visitors via a shout-out by someone well known. What impression will you leave and how many people will subscribe?

I believe this list is the biggest/best one for indie marketing. But it mostly comes after you create some content worth sharing.

[trilby]

Good advice.  You're right about that post you read.  Must try harder!  My grammar is usually pretty good so I'll blame the beer 

[moi]

my advice: make quality articles, and try to make original articles.
I mean if you write a review of the latest COD or HALO game, your website will be lostin the sea of articles and that's bad SEO.
Now if you make an article about super secret indie games from soviet union that only a dozen people know about, or give advice or tutorials or write opinion that is original and relevant (not gratuiutously polemic) or do something like that, then google will make its' magic and you'll be at the top of the search results for these subjects and you'll get a lot of visitors.
And you'll need to make regular content(not once a year or sthg)

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

yeah, you're basically asking us 'how do i get people to view what i have so far, which is basically nothing'. make something worth reading first, *then* ask how to get people to see it. not the other way around.

[Capntastic]

Eres is right.  Even if you're getting random views, what do they matter if they're random, what do they matter if there is nothing for them to return to, and what do they matter if you're not making a connection via a content provider / audience relationship?

On my own site, which barely breaks 50 views in a week on average, I've found there to be a strong correlation between consistency of updates and visits.  I've had a few articles that land hot and get hundreds of views in a day, but I don't really care too much about those views because overall it's not going to lead to much.  Having a variety is also important, in terms of being interesting to a perspective audience.

[trilby]

Awesome. Cheers guys.