6 Things to do After Writing a Blog Post to Make it Go Viral

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I Sai Kumar, is a Founder and CEO of Crunchyhub. I am a 21 Year Ordinary and a Simple guy from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. I writes about Blogging, Technology, Gadgets, Social Media, Programming, Make Money Online etc.
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You’ve written a great blog post and you’re sure that it will go viral and attract more comments on it.

But most of the times you don’t see enough results. You’ll be doomed almost everytime after writing a blog posts.

Have you ever thought why your blog posts are not receiving enough blog comments, shares, tweets etc?

This is mainly because..you don’t know how to properly promote your blog posts

Here are the 6 simple things you can do to make your blog posts going viral and bring them more visibility instantly.

1. Share it on social media sites :

Use social networking sites like facebook, twitter, G+ etc to promote your contents. It’s really important for you to share on your Facebook fan pages too. This way you will be getting more online visibility to your blog posts. When you’re newbie it’s really essential to get to know other bloggers and blogs. No one will come to your blog without promoting your blog the right way. So you must be promoting it almost everywhere to get instant reaction.

2. Make thoughtful comments on other blogs :

Blog comments not only bring quality relationships with other blogs but they also give your blog more visibility. Other people will find you easily when they see your blog comments all over the blogosphere, agree? It’s as simple as that. You should leave thoughtful comments on other blogs to create a great impact and generate traffic to your own blogs. Never leave one line comments by saying ‘hey great post, thanks for sharing’ etc. No one will love to have them on their blogs, instead, they’ll send those kind of blog comments into trash. Moreover leaving one liners will not add any value to the posts, In return, you’ll also get the same type of comments. So make sure you’re adding value to the blog comments by extending the discussion of the blog topic or asking questions about the blog post.

3. Be sure to respond to your own blog comments :

This is more important, you should be building a great network around your blog to grow your network, because great connections matter a lot in the long run. The best way to build a network around your blog is, responding to each and every comment on your blog posts. Even if you’re getting negative comments, don’t worry, don’t delete them. Instead, take a second, and look at the negative comment from the readers point of view..if it adds any value then do respond to those comments else ignore them.

4. Bookmark your content :

The bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, digg, reddit will not only drive traffic to your blog, but also they’re one of the best ways to get quality backlinks to your site. Yea, bookmarking sites will give you quality results in both terms, so don’t ignore them once you finished writing a blog post to make it going viral.

5. Email few readers :

If you’ve any blogging buddies or readers, do send them your latest blog post details including title, topic and link. This way you can let them know your latest blog updates. But don’t overdo it. Don’t send daily updates, this can create bad impact on you. Or they may simply ignore helping you.

6. Make sure your content is optimized :

Don’t neglect the search engines. They’re very important to bring quality traffic to your blog. I’m not saying you to keyword stuff your blog posts though, but it should at least have keywords in titles, meta description, url, sub heads etc. And don’t forget adding tags (minimum 3 tags/post is enough) to generate more clicks on your blog posts.

Over to you :

What else do you do after writing your blog posts? Share your views here. 

Comments

  1. Social Sharing is important for having traffic. Well, Using Reddit, Twitter and Facebook is must for that.
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  2. Those are some great points for newbies to learn. Bloggers tend to underestimate the power of these social bookmarking sites, you need to be active member of them to see good results.
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  3. Hey Sai,

    All things I do is I promote my post on FB Groups, My Fan page and at last I stumble the post.

    This all gives me enough exposure.

    This is really good article and also the image ;)
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  4. Hi Sai,

    What I feels is that a post can go viral automatically if it contains interesting images, I have tried it my self that posts with cool images becomes more popular on Facebook and gets more likes and shares. :-)

    Joe
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  5. This is a great article. I usually share my post via as many bookmarking services as possible. I have placed a sharethis toolbar beneath single post and I click them all after my post gets published. I get instant traffic after that! Thanks for sharing the other tricks with us. Cheers! :-)
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  6. I think the hardest thing to do is blog comment, because we never know whether the comment, got approved or not … but hopefully my comment in here got approved,anyway thank you for nice article
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    • Well I don’t think commenting is too hard. Basically, i believe in not doing comment spamming in any blog. You should only comment when you feel you have something to say about the post, or about the related comments. After-all, we do the same job and some have better success rate than others :-)

  7. I agree with Fikri, I do feel like I wasted my time when I go back to a blog and see my comment never got approved. So it’s important to interact with your base readers, they are your strongest chance to increase the popularity of you posts. And social networking is the new internet for a lot of people, to them Facebook is the world wide web, AOL all over again.
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  8. These are some must to do things after writing a killer post. I often perform all the steps except step #5.

    Great share Sai !!
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  9. Saikumargr these are all very good tips of promotion. I believe that social networks is probably one of the best methods of promoting ones blog. But like you said, you don’t want to slam the world with too much self promotion or it could have a reverse effect.

    Have you seen many results that come from email forwarding done by site subscribers? Seems this could spread pretty rapidly. Although it would probably be a hard tactic to track results from.
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  10. I usually write in my own language, but when I write a really good blog post, I sometimes translate it to english and talk to some of the english blogs about posting it there as well as a guest blogger. It can generate some valuable backlinks that way, and also help your image and reputation if people notice you.

  11. I agree with you: promotion on Social Media is really important.
    I think that it’s important to focus on one Social Media, conquer it and then go to the next one.
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  12. Hi Saikumargr,

    Thanks for sharing the information on making a post viral ,

    But You could have also mentioned some on- page thing you can do , which will support above points.Like one could Do

    -Attractive title of can say some controversial sort of ,which will immediately pull the attraction.

    -one can use images or featured images with the post this will be a great source of attraction,and people will click to your post and see what is there in the post

    -one can give very attractive description in twisted way, by twisted means if you confuse the reader ,then he will automatically open the article and would be desperate to see what is there in the article.

    But still a very nice attempt ,

    Thank you
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  13. I agree with you Sai, I always sahre my new post on social media like Facebook, Del., Reddit sometimes it goes viral, attractive title matters a lot. I’ll try other ways suggested by you :)
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  14. I’ve always share my new blog post to social media. I try my best to respond any comment on my post.

  15. Man I wish I could get one of my post to go viral. That would be awesome. I know my content is good, and I follow all of these tips but going viral is really hard. But the tips you have listed do work.
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  16. Thanks for this awesome article regarding gaining exposure to our blog posts. I can’t stress enough on how much important Social media is to any web business life. We can easily gain massive exposure as well as trust and credibility to our online business doing this.
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  17. To make social media sharing effective you need to promote your social media pages. The best way to do gain an audience for your social media page is to go out and start liking, and commenting on, other social media pages. This will give you exposure to that page’s audience. If you’re looking for a good page to follow, why not start with ours: http://www.facebook.com/TheAdvenTourist

    :)
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  18. nice post and really informative one for newbies like us.. i guess social bookmarking is one of the best way to get more traffic to your website.
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  19. Thanks.

    These are really useful as I’m now trying to optimize my blog.
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  20. i always forget the bookmarking things.
    the stumbleupon and delicious things :(

    i really should make a list and stick to it!!!
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  21. Good information to know, since I am a newbie blogger. Social media is definitely a great way to get more exposure. I’m still in the process of learning. Glad this site has great information.

    • I agree. All avenues need to be explored to get the bang for your wallet! Social Media encompasses so many areas that it can be overwhelming sometimes, however, with time and practice it can certainly be mastered. Good luck.

  22. Do you think the above methods can bring in subscribers to the blog? I am doing the above method for a year still couldn’t find even one subscriber. Please do advice.

  23. It seems that you missed out on one of the most important things: sending out an email about the post to your email list!
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  24. In the old days new bloggers used to focus more on the theme and impact of the article which would make them “famous” rather than promoting it obsessively.
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  25. Optimize content is very important to drive traffic. Great content can stimulate your reader to share your posting through social media. So don’t forget to install social media plugin in your site.
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  26. Unfortunately, the stumbleupon and reddit is a real brickwall if you don’t have your content discovered with proper tags. Reddit is one I would stay away from since there are nothing but angry liberal anal-retentives there.
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  27. Reddit has pretty much stonewalled anyone with self-promotional material, regardless of if the person is spamming or actually has interesting and new content. It’s a bit of a paradox. Stumbleupon has so far been kind.
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  28. Really Amazing and very interesting post, Im going to secure my WP site with these tips, BTW whatever you have shared. This is wonderful view and now i have found the views and very quite informative that is very useful well thanks for sharing this info.

    Thanks!
    Ivy
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  29. hello Saikumargr – The two best ways for me to get the word out are Social networking sites and email lists. Although Social Media may be the best at it, since feeds on there spread like wildfire especially when we have built a sizable network of interested people.
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  30. I’m afraid that I regularly do these things but have had only one of my blog posts go viral — and I think it was accidental. But this is stuff that people should be doing to all their posts anyway, just to keep up with competition, which is doing the same things.
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  31. It’s scary how much of an impact social media has had, now you do seem to have to make sure you’re promoting your content as effectively as possible.
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  32. Oh good to see that I am doing all of the above except bookmarking. But not so happy that despite all of it, my posts do not really get shared a lot. Lets see if bookmarking helps.
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  33. When commenting there is always a risk of rejection of the comment. To increase your chances: use your name, do not spam, no one tekst for all blog posts. When blogging in other languages than English the amount of possibilities that are effective are far less than when writing in English. facebook, etc do work though.
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  34. A good post that reinforces that you still have work to do when you have finished writing your post.

    When you start promoting content online, it is worth tracking where you pick up traffic and where you don’t so you can modify or drop the bookmark sites or social pages that are not driving traffic.

    I have found that by only creating and promoting the best content you can, you can pick up momentum and tweets, facebook likes and Google+ adds start to snowball.
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  35. Started sharing via social media more often over the last 12 months. Not sure why it took me so long, but it’s gained me some readership that I didn’t have before.
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  36. I’ve dabbled on the bookmarking sites, mostly stumbleupon, but my bookmarking my posts rarely makes a difference. Maybe they think I’m a spammer. Maybe I need to stumble other people’s links more often. I need to try Reddit again, but I think my first experience there was not the best.
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  37. Not sure I agree with the bookmarking. Most are no-follow links, and you pretty much have to be a top contributor to get a following in order to get traffic.. I agree with the rest though, even though keeping up with Social Media is almost a full time job by itself.
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  38. I think we should more creative in posting new contents. You have provided me some very helpful tips on making my posts more popular.

  39. I’ve tried reddit and it confuses me. It seemed like an awful lot of work. I’m sure I was probably not using it right. I need to go back and research the best ways to use it I think. Thanks for these tips!
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  40. Great blog and great resources for blog owners… one of the hardest things is making a blog more visible. Lots of great advises here.
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  41. I think the hardest thing to do is blog comment, because we never know whether the comment, got approved or not.
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  42. Share on Facebook & Twitter is a must. However, need more creativity in creating blog content. If not, reader will just drop by and fly away. Sharing in bookmarking however not really popular in some countries especially when the content not in english. Anyway, thanks for the great tips.
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  43. I have definitely made use of Facebook and Twitter for quite some time now but also feel that use of Google+ is pretty much compulsory when looking at it from an SEO aspect. Anybody that has a website really should have a Google+ page for it and begin building an audience there. Google is definitely watching everything that is going on at Google+, of course :]

    I also think that Pinterest will continue by leaps and bounds this year and their new business site will also be one to add to the mix. Definitely one to keep your eye on.

    Derek
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  44. Nice tips,
    I think pinging your site and submitting it to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, reddit and diigg can also boost your virality.
    Plus try to reply to all comment that your readers leave on your best.
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  45. Absolutely great tips, especially about the blog commenting. I have a small list of sites that I use to promote content because the authors actually respond to me and the content is still hoppin’ fresh! I would actually add guest blogging to this list. It’s REALLY helped me get exposure and it’s fun to research the topics.
    Thanks!
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  46. I do all this after i publish a new blog post, But there’s one thing i do often that wasn’t mentioned here.
    I head over to justretweet and publish my posts there. to get other bloggers to retweet my article
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  47. Another way of promoting your new blog post is by submitting your link to relevant Linkedin groups. Of course you will need to have a Linkedin page and be a member of certain to groups to do this.
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  48. Hi Saikumar,

    Great tips. But although we do all these stuff sometimes we will not be getting our expectation, is that just because the reader is not satisfied with my post?
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    • Hi Kevin,

      Ya that might be the case, it doesn’t matter how well and neat you write blog and if it doesn’t convey any information for what the reader is looking for then you will fail to get more attentions.

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  49. These are all really great things you should always be doing. I have found that I can easily drive 100 visits a day just from reddit alone. If you guys have not tried to get traffic from there yet, you may want too. The key is submitting quality content. They will hit you hard for spam, so always focus on the quality.
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  50. These are really great tips and as the saying goes, there is a fortune in the follow up. I do the commenting but I also love BizSugar and that’s helped me a lot. There are some other great tools out there that if you work them, you’ll get nice returns in the form of tweets, posts, RTs etc.
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  51. Being active with your readers and followers can make any blog post go viral in no time :)
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  52. Well I make use of Social Sharing , Bookmarking and commenting on related niche blogs after creating articles. Its the best Blogging and White hat SEO Practice .
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