How to create a viral blog post
Viral content is content that is shared by your readers on their social media accounts and constantly drives traffic to your post without you doing anything about it.
Is that how it works?
You create a high-quality post for your blog and add social sharing buttons to the bottom of the post and every time a reader reads and likes your post, they share it on their social media accounts and drive traffic to you. . Now imagine your post got 1,000 views out of which 5% shared your post i.e. 50 readers share it and you attract approx 1000 new visitors from your social media, out of those 1000 new viewers again 5% shared and brings about 1,000 views again.
This cycle continues and you get a steady stream of viewers to your blog without any special effort. This type of marketing is called viral marketing. And it’s so powerful that Chris Gimmer of Bootstrap Bay managed to get 17,584 visitors to his new blog in just one day.
How to create Viral Content?
Everyone wants to create viral content. I mean, really who doesn’t want a steady stream of free traffic to their blog. It helps to increase SEO ranking, it helps to increase email list, it helps to popularize blog and blogger and it will also increase profit for sure. But not everyone is capable of creating viral content. Today I will teach you how you can make blog posts that can go viral. So, let’s get started:
Step 1. Find great content already written.
Starting from scratch can be a bit difficult and to make things easier just go to Reddit gold Stumble upon gold buzz and search for content (in your niche) that is already being appreciated and shared by viewers. The content that already turned out to be viral.
Step 2. Improve the content you found.
Even if you have found the best content in the world, it can still be improved.
Please edit the entire post and title or you may experience duplicate content issue. Rewrite the post with your own words and even improve it. Use these techniques to make it better-
Add more links – Link to other blogs in your niche within your blog post. Not only will it build trust among your readers, but it will also improve your relationships with other bloggers and they may one day link to your blog in their posts as well.
Increase Media – If more images, screenshots or videos can be added in the post, feel free to do so. The more multimedia a post is, the more it gets shared.
Increase Post Length – Buzzsumo found that posts between 3,000 and 10,000 words are the most shared. Now, if the content you’re editing is already in this range, then great, but if it’s not, go for it.
Call to action – The best way to encourage your readers to share your content on their social networks is to add a call to action at the bottom of each post.
Step 3. Promote your content?
Promote the content you’ve written on your own social networks to your own friends and followers first, and even encourage them to share it more.
You can use the following websites to promote your content:-
SlideShare
Stumble upon
facebook etc
Step 4. Add download as PDF share button.
Another way to increase sharing is to give your readers the option to download your entire post as a shareable pdf file. This method is powerful if you write a great post that your readers will want to read even offline.
Here are some of the techniques you can apply today to start making blog posts that go viral and increase your blog traffic and if you want to learn more about the ways you can make awesome posts visit HERE