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by JeremyKolb 4889 days ago
I write for a startup and have been on HN front page a few times, most visits from HN in a day was around 1300 for an article about Facebooks Social Graph: http://www.applieddatalabs.com/content/how-facebooks-graph-s...

This article misses an important benifit of getting large amounts of traffic: Google starts to recognize you through author rank and links as a qualified source of information.

Ever since my articles have been on HN, search traffic has steadily grown. This could be because of something else, but the common connection is large amounts of traffic from you guys.