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How to Get Viral Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:03 AM PDT Ready to Get Viral? It is very important to write quality content to your website. It will not only please search engines like Google and boost your ranking in the organic search results, it also keeps your readers and with luck, they might suggest it to their friends. The more sites your article goes on the better – this is completely a wrong theory. Article directories insist in their terms and conditions that only 100% original content will be published. This will give you the quality backlinks that you need for your website. Remember that if you submit a single article to numerous directories, there is a huge chance that you'll commit a violation called link farming. Link farming is considered a type of black hat seo technique and it is prohibited. It is extremely important to let your content go viral as well and for you to do that, your articles should be captivating. Here are the 5 types of articles that can go viral. 1. List Posts List posts are one of the great posts to write as they are easy to compile and have a higher chance to get viral. Try to scrutinize some of the top blogs online, most of them are blogs with lists posts. A great example is "The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers (Copyblogeger)." It was retweeted 1,200 times, received 200 comments and was shared on Facebook for about 446 times. 2.  How To Posts People just love to read articles that will help them solve their problems which makes "how to…" types of articles have a great chance on going viral. Readers like to read informal posts and to see a post starting with "how to …" will get a higher chance of appearing in organic search results. Another example of a how to type of post is a blog post from Copyblogger again. The post "How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business" was retweeted over 680 times, received 434 comments and was shared 375 times on Facebook. 3.  Case Studies Case studies are practical and informative which s what readers love. They are interested to see other people's ideas which make them a type of post that goes viral easily if well – written. Pat Flynn's blog post on his blog SmartPassiveIncome's "The Backlinking Strategy thet Works" received over 1,452 comments which is pretty impressive. 4.  Controversial Posts Controversial posts are critical as it can either help or destroy your business. It is completely risky however the chance of going viral is high. When trying to create a controversial post, it is important to understand that what are you trying to do is to get quality traffic out of your post. A great example of a controversial post is the "Twitter Lists – I'm Not Down" by Chris Brogan which has received over 160 comments and was retweeted 326 times. 5. Top Posts People just love to read anything that's tarts with "Top 10… something" A great example of a top post is from the IncomeDiary, "50 Most Influential People in Blogging 2012." It has received 373 Facebook shared, 90 comments and retweeted for about 340 times. Gist: Not because your article is one of the mentioned above, it doesn't guarantee your article to get viral. You have to make it as interesting as possible and implement the necessary strategies at the same time.

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