7 Great Examples of Viral Blog Posts

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What Does it Mean to Go Viral?

Often times you’ll come across the a viral blog post, but what makes it viral?  First, a viral post is any content that is so interesting that people are sharing it online via social media, etc.  When you see a video that has been uploaded a week ago with 1 million views already, that’s a viral video.  When you see a recent post uploaded onto Digg and it has been dug 1,000 times, that’s a blog post.  When you see someone coughing and sneezing, that’s a viral infection (sorry, had to it…).

How to Write Viral Blog Posts

So how do you entice readers to Stumble, Retweet, Digg, etc. your blog post?  Most of it deals with your title.  The first thing a reader does before reading a post is they read the title to see if it’s even worth their time to continue on.  To help you get the ball rolling I found this great article from Daniel Scocco’s blog titled How to Write a Viral Blog Post: 7 Real Examples.  My favorite excerpt from the post:

“List Posts:
The majority of the posts that go viral seem to be list-type posts. “X reasons to do something” or “X ways to be inspired”. The reason that these posts are so easily shared is that they are easy to read and there is always one or more reasons that relates to the reader. That is why they feel happy to share it and go through the trouble

Interesting Topics:
Posts that go viral are often about topics that everybody has an interest in. Travel, life, money, sex, relationships. These have a broad appeal and are likely to be shared.

How-to Posts:
If you can provide a solution for a problem then people are grateful. If you can provide a solution for a common problem that many people have, the chances are big that your post will get shared by everyone who finds your solution helpful.”

Read these posts and get the feel of what’s the common writing style between those posts and how are they solving the reader’s problem. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel, see what others are doing successfully and apply it to your niche. That’s it folks!

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