Ask HN: Built a site with established competitors for SEO. What to do?
Hello, I built a sudoku webapp with SEO being the last thing I considered.  This is because I wanted to learn how to build apps and also have assurance there was demand for it.<p>Months after completion the site still has few visitors (~20 per day, mostly from one referral link I managed to get).  It&#x27;s hopelessly invisible from Google due to established sudoku sites and that it has few keywords due to being an app.<p>I created a widget for others to add puzzles to their sites with only a few takers.<p>Posting the link around the internet brings some visitors but nothing sticks.<p>What would you do in this situation to get this site on the first page of Google?  Or do I have a hopeless chicken and egg scenario?<p>I believe my site is at least a good as the others - it&#x27;s just that without Google traffic I can&#x27;t reach critical mass.  Sharing via FB and Twitter just doesn&#x27;t happen often enough.<p>Thanks.