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Title: Which programming languages should I learn: Beginners Edition
URL: https://blogs.endjin.com/2013/04/which-programming-languages-should-i-learn-beginners-edition/
This was posted to prove to a skeptical team that you really could get readership for a post, without a huge industry profile or advertising campaign.
We were measuring pageviews.
It wasn't a spectacular success by viral content measures, but it got 12.5k views in a couple of days, as opposed to the few hundred we were getting on a typical post at that time.
It outperformed its peers because it contained content that was targeted at a specific, but fairly broad, audience; it generated debate within that audience, and had a title that provoked that debate.
It got people to think more deeply about the audience for the content they were generating.