Building a viral website is very important now days specially in the web 2.0 space. At one time blogs, forums, and other forms of social networking was not such a big deal. Today its a whole different story blogs are largely used along with many other forms of online networking.

When computers first came out it was mainly about instant messaging, chat rooms, and things to that nature, but then as the web evolved people realized they could use blogs to market there website by building communities up and things to that nature and that right there is what I’m going to talk about.

So why are blogs so important to have?

1. Social Networking: Blogs increase your ability to open communications with other people for example if your someone that has around 20,000 subscribers into your blog and some of them people are promoting your articles through social networks or just telling other people about it the chances of people knowing who you are will be a lot higher, therefore it opens new doors up for you to meet new clients or just people in general.
2. Increased Search Engine Rankings: Blogs allow you to increase your search engine rankings strategically through all the major search engines, but why is that? The reason behind this for is because when people link to you its a vote from the search engine which a lot of you are probably famaliar about this, but if not keep in mind the more links, the better therefore blogs will create this.
3. Brand Awareness: If your a CEO of company like me then you will definitely know how important this is and blogs can create brand awareness and when I say create brand awareness I’m talking they can create brand awareness *big time*.

What are some tips on building a viral blog?

1. Keep Writing: I can’t say how important this is, but honestly this is your key to success right here persistency pays off big time. The idea is to keep writing don’t get caught up on trying to make every post a viral post which don’t take me wrong put a lot of effort into it and create something that people will like, but the main idea behind a blog honestly is to stay writing the more content you have the better that’s for sure which granted you need to hook people in, but as you write a lot you’ll figure out what works and whats not working.
2. Creativeness: Be creative use things such as images, videos, and things to that nature. Use images that will go along with your post or at least where it will make sense by using images it sets more sensors off in the mind set of the readers, so therefore the chances of them linking to it or spreading it will be a lot higher.
3. Link Out: Try to link out to other popular blogs because you never know when someone might see your article and then want to link back to you or might of liked the article then it’s a good possibility they’ll write an article up on you or about your article anyways.

Conclusion
The idea behind building a viral website or blog I should say is to just stay persistent if you stay persistent sooner or later everything will start making sense and coming together you just have to stay on it. If you stay on it then the chances of you succeeding will happen a lot faster the thing is when people start writing or promoting a blog they give up very fast and believe me when promoting a blog its something that takes time and effort and can be very discouraging, but you have to over look that and over come that and when you get to that level of where you can overcome them feelings then you know you your heading in the right direction.

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