Link to the website or to GitHub? Which is better?
Anastasiia Zvenigorodskaia
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Hello PH World! I see that some products put a link in the "Visit" button to their website, while others use link to their GitHub repository.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?
We were preparing a landing page specifically for the launch on Product Hunt, but perhaps GitHub is a better idea as it might give more views and chances to hit GitHub trends?
Thank you for your advice, and I would be very grateful for any comments and support for our open source product Vuestic Admin =)
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Avital Trifsik@avital_trifsik
I believe it depends on your goal, if yu want more stars and downloads I would point to GH and make sure a link to our website is in a higher position at the GH repo but if this is not your main goal and you are aiming for more promotional/enterprise goals go with linking to your website.
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Github trends is a powerful secondary traffic engine for sure!
@sentry_co do you know how they calculate this rating? We jumped to trends of the week or day several times but I still can’t understand why 😅
I think it depends on your target audience. If you focus on developers, LinkedIn to GitHub makes sense.
However, pay attention to that the "Visit" button is a do-follow link. Product hunt has 91 domain rank, so if you plan to work on SEO it better to link to your website.