Comments on: How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Copy

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:26 +0000

Haven’t had any luck yet, but you have some great ideas that I’m going to try out.

By: Make Money Online Tips

Make Money Online Tips — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:06:25 +0000

Video is the best example of Viral content, if you have a good video, it can go viral asap.

By: Charles Kaluwasha

Charles Kaluwasha — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:32:00 +0000

This is a great resource. I enjoyed reading all the series.
I liked the way you listed them and were easy to understand and follow. This will be one of my favorite resource center.
Keep up the excellent service!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:42:46 +0000

Great article. I’m still learning a lot and want to see our numbers to up for http://www.CrystalClearMarket.com.

Also, do you recommend any services?

Thanks!

By: uphaa

uphaa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:59:49 +0000

stumbleupon looks a good choise to start, i got some hits whith them like
http://www.uphaa.com/blog/index.php/videogames-never-play/

but to get hits from digg…. it is…another history

By: T.M. Harris

T.M. Harris — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:14:12 +0000

Good post! I like viral ebooks, personally. I’ll write up a 5-10 page report giving out some good content, and slap a disclaimer at the beginning of the report saying how the reader now has either ‘Master Resale Rights’ or ‘Giveaway Rights’. They might use it to build their own list, or to satisfy their own readers/subscribers.

And in the viral ebook, I have links to my blog all in them, so I can snag some cheap viral traffic.

One of my books, actually isn’t all that viral…yet I sell it for cheap and let others promote it for 100% of the sale. One of my reports was all about Ebay, and I gave out 75% per sale with Clickbank for it.

I gained 1500 new customerers as a result, and out of those 1500, 180 of them became blog subscribers. The other 1320 simply opted for my email newsletter since they weren’t into blogs as much as I am.

By: Clams

Clams — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:11:32 +0000

I agree with what P.B.Eswar said. This series was packed full of great information, but a how-to series would be a tremendous help, especially for a new blogger like myself.

By: P.B.Eswar

P.B.Eswar — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:40:03 +0000

It was wonderful series of articles and who ever goes through it will certainly find them directed in a proper way,but for a very much new comer to this great island of blogging some of the ideas showed seems to be easy than done.My request here for you is why don’t you go for a series of how to’s by taking thro us by hand and help. Thanx for the great article.

By: Eunited Adlogic

Eunited Adlogic — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:27:53 +0000

We found that we works quite will when it come to blogs. Getting the best results from your blog is what it is all about.

By: WrinkleFree

WrinkleFree — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:57:23 +0000

Yes, I agree, it is good to study other sites to get inspiration. But yes, make sure to study quite a few, otherwise you will subcounsciously copy it. The more, the better.

By: HelpShoppingOnline

HelpShoppingOnline — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:34:51 +0000

I’d definately have to say that going viral is 90% luck. There are millions of funny videos, column, etc. online but only a few ever truly go viral.

When considering how best to make your stuff viral I have to agree that studying already successful sites is the best way to go. Great series of posts Darren. There’s a reason you’re one of the top bloggers on the net.

By: Michelle Greer

Michelle Greer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:53:11 +0000

I think the hardest part about doing this is that my readers aren’t the type of people who use Digg, Stumbleupon, etc. So I can focus on creating good content for our customers or I can focus on getting picked up in these sites in hopes of getting backlinks. Lately, I’ve just tried to write useful content. I get paid to blog and at least owe that to our customers.

By: Kimota

Kimota — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:42:36 +0000

This has been an excellent series of posts. I’ve already enacted stumbleupon advertising which very quickly started to produce some natural traffic and a high amount of positive reaction. It was great to get concrete data on how many visitors actually read and responded to the material.

Viral content is definitely the holy grail of launching a blog and this post contains some strong ideas to make this work. I recently relaunched my blog having redefined the niche I wanted to write in (previously it was too broad, so I splintered off into three blogs). This has meant starting from scratch in finding a regular audience so your series coul;dn’t have come at a better time.

By: Tom Beaton

Tom Beaton — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:12:49 +0000

Viral content is great due to the long term results it can bring in.

It is very hard to get something that goes viral though. Work is required.

By: N Lotlikar

N Lotlikar — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:35:19 +0000

Thanks for the great advice. First impression always count.

Thanks again great advice

By: amulya

amulya — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:25:26 +0000

nice advice.

Thank you.

Having a great title always gives the good first impression.

By: Bob Younce

Bob Younce — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:31:38 +0000

My best post to date has, by far, been an article about common Internet writing mistakes. I received over 11,000 stumbles on that post, which is at least ten times more than any other post on any of my blogs.

What made this one different? I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I have some ideas. I think it was a Divine Moment, a fateful conflux of several factors:

The post met a felt need – writers want to know how to avoid mistakes, especially the big ones.
The post was in list format – this made it easily digestible and stumble-friendly.
A StumbleUpon power-user (not sure who) stumbled me.
I included a couple of interesting pictures and personal examples in the post. This seems to be especially appealing.
Of course, I’ve not been able to repeat this success, so I can’t guarantee that the above points are accurate at all :)

By: POYTSPOT

POYTSPOT — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:10:54 +0000

I totally agree on Darren’s first “to do” list. I got some visit’s by guess posting on a certain blogging community…

By: Julie Scipioni McKown

Julie Scipioni McKown — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:06:51 +0000

These posts are going into my “keepers” folder for further study and reference. Thanks!

I’d like to offer a book recommendation for anyone who is trying to learn more about how to create “sticky” content. “Made to Stick” by Dan and Chip Heath is a fun read and I am learning a lot about how to write more effectively by applying the principles they’ve identified.

Peace,
Julie

By: Carl - Thatblogsite.com

Carl - Thatblogsite.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:55:44 +0000

Darren is it just me but where is the Social Media part?

On the “recently at the blog” it jumps from advertising post to the viral post.