If you want people to pay attention to you someday, you have to eventually write so good that people will recommend it to their friends — in fact, so good that they want to be the first one to recommend it to their friends for the implied good taste.
No growth hack or brilliant content promotion idea can save you long term if you don’t have a sufficiently good writing.
So if you’re trying to grow your traction around a mediocre writing, fix it now. Don’t try to avoid the problem by writing lazy listicles or looking for aggressive tactics. And if you’re just starting out, take the time to write stories your audience loves, no matter how long it takes.
Source: How we got 11.3 million pageviews without the growth hacking bullshit