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What surprises me is how often old HN comments keep sending visitors. I made a comment about my JS/Canvas games 19 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1281730 ) and I still get 5-10 clicks a day from it. It's pretty surprising actually. Reddit has a similar effect.

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Same with upvotes. I'll post a response, get a few upvotes, post nothing for a few days, and usually get an upvote after the article is long off the front page. Guess people are a lot more backlogged than me! :)

I very often get backlogged, but still try to keep up. I submit comments as distant as 2 days beyond the original submission date. I vote no matter the age of a submission or comment; if something is worth reading, age almost doesn't matter (excepting newsworthiness, etc.). I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that browses HN with a little delay.

The reason for this is that if the HN thread has a keyword rich title it shows up in Google search results, which in turn passes visitors on to your site.

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