17 No-BS Strategies For Creating Viral Content

Whether you’ve just started blogging or you’ve been doing it for years, one thing you will always crave is TRAFFIC.

I remember when I first started blogging. I never really cared that much about it. My main focus was link building and increasing my page rank, nothing more. I’m sure it’s the same thing with most newbies.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s important to do link building but until realize why you’re doing it in the first place, you’ll never see my point.

Why do we link build? To get better SERPs(Search Engine Ranking Position). Why do we want better SERPs? Do get more TRAFFIC. Why do we want more traffic? To build our blog, spread our influence and eventually generate an income.

If you can properly leverage traffic, you won’t even need to worry about link building! (tweet this) Links will all come naturally (which is Google rule #1).

Most people think driving traffic only happens after you hit publish. That’s not the case. Even before you type the first word, you can take steps to ensure that your post, once published, drives the type of traffic you want.

Now, here are my 17 No-BS Strategies for creating viral content.

30 Traffic and Link Building Gambits

1. Write something amazing and current about your niche, email other bloggers and chances are that they will link to you.

2. Be Controversial, challenge what everyone is saying but justify why you are opposing it. People eat this stuff up and they will either agree with you or disagree and link to you to explain why you are wrong. It's so easy. Look at the example of my recent post that got a lot of attention and page views.

Google Smoogle: Why you don't need Google for explosive traffic 

3. Leave awesome comments on other people blogs linking back to your site (to find blogs that will probably gather some serious traffic look at Digg, Delicious and Reddit's Upcoming or Hot sections)

Stumble Upon Traffic Series: Part 1

In this current age of social media and blogging, there are many services that you can use to promote your content and share your ideas. One of these such services is StumbleUpon.

StumbleUpon traffic is one of the most debated methods of generating traffic among many seasoned bloggers.
It has the potential to send you anywhere from a hundred to tens of thousands of views in a single day (the highest I received in a single day was 3267 hits) which is good but the argument is whether the quality of traffic is good or not.

Google Smoogle: Why You Don't Need Google To Get Explosive Traffic

Thousands upon thousands of so-called gurus have led you to believe that Google is the king of all traffic and that if you don't follow Google's rules of SEO and linking, you are doomed to fail.
Well i'm here to show you why you don't relly need Google to crash your servers because of too much traffic.

1. Youtube


According to alexa, Youtube is the third most popular site on the web. Billions of videos are watched each day and millions go viral. Im going to give you a real world example of a business that took off from a single youtube video gone viral.

The Psychology of Attracting Links and Boosting Traffic

This is a little excerpt on a free eBook i'm working on. It is called "The Psychology of Attracting Links and Building Traffic." Subscribe to my feed to be the first to receive it when finished.

5 Reasons Your Site Isn't Getting As Much Traffic As You Want (And Fixes)

So, If you're reading this you are probably not getting as much traffic as you wanted: Don't worry, you are not alone. Millions of bloggers have this problem and don't beat yourself up about it.

Traffic generation is one of the most misunderstood topics in the blogging world and i am going to give you 5 reasons your blog isn't doing as well as you hoped.

7 Ways To Get More Visitors For The Lazy Ass Blogger

Blogging takes time and patience. Gradually building your blog and getting traffic to it takes time.

But what if you want visitors right now? You are tired of the whole long term thing and you want to see your traffic stats skyrocket! What do you do?

6 Simple Ways To Shut Down Your Blog Because Of Too Much Traffic

If the traffic you are getting at the moment isn't leading to sales or you are just not getting any traffic, that means you are not attracting the type of visitors who are specifically interested in what you have to offer. It's a common thing and many newbies often make this mistake. But don't fret, there is a solution to this problem and all it requires is a perfectly laid out game plan.

5 Ways To Promote Your Blog Effectively

Blog Promotion

Blog promotion can be a daunting task and very time consuming. It can also be very frustrating if you don't do it right and don't see any results. One thing (first timers especially) think that promoting a blog has to only do with external promotion i.e. using other sites to promote your blog. This is true if you only want a few visitors but if you want a large in-pour of traffic you are going to have to also work on the blog itself first. Here I will outline a few good ways to get some serious traffic to your blog and how to keep it coming.

5 ways to get a free traffic overload

1)      Make your site search engine friendly

Another word that professionals use to describe making a site search engine friendly is Search Engine Optimization. Search engines are an unlimited free traffic. If you want to make your blog successful, you have to optimize your site to rank well for your chosen keywords. Doing SEO takes work, dedication and patience unless you want to hire others to do this for you. SEO done right can be an invaluable source of free traffic. SEO isn’t a very difficult task and it can be divided into two categories.