Has it ever happened to you?

You wrote a blog post, edited it brutally to make it as lean as possible without losing the essence, and finally hit the publish button. You thought it was going to be viral. You dreamed of getting book contracts, celebrity image, and admiration.

What happened then?

You disappointedly stared at the zero counts of social buttons. The empty comment section mocked at you.

I know this happened to you. Maybe, happening now as well!

Don’t worry! I am going to help you create a viral blog post.

10 Secrets to Writing a Viral Blog Post

In this article, you will get ten tips to create a viral blog post.

1. Astonish Your Audience with Your Title

If your title isn’t captivating, you will not get any visitors no matter how good the body of your post is.

Let me give you two titles.

How to Make Money on Your Blog?

How to Make $1000 from 10 Visitors?

What did you like the most? The first one? I bet not! The first one is a clichéd title whereas the second one startles you with the numbers.

Always be unpredictable with your title. If possible, use at least a power word.

2. Solve an Interesting Problem

If you solve a problem with your blog post before anyone else, traffic will flow like from a broken dam.

Have a look at this post on Lifehack.org. The post accumulated over 4 million social shares. Why?

The article solves an interesting problem in the easiest way possible. You can find interesting problems that come under your niche. Once you do it, find the easiest solution.

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Popularity is on the way!

3. Debunk a Conventional Statement

We are conventionalists! We keep on believing certain things for long.

What if someone breaks it for a solid reason? Will you lend him your ears? I am sure you will!

Find popular beliefs in your niche. Let me take blogging as an example. I came across some and made the following titles.

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  How to Increase Your Organic Traffic without Backlinks?

  
  
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  Why Should You Not Build Your Email List?

  
  
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  Content is King; Are You Kidding Me?

  
  

See? As a blogger, will you click on such titles?

4. Open the Post in a Unique Way

You must work hard at the beginning of your blog post. If it goes well, half of your job is done.

I really admire Jon Morrow in this regard! The openings of all his blog posts attract us to the rest of the content like a strong magnet.

There are multiple ways to open a blog post in an impressive manner.

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  Ask a sharpened question

  
  
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  Tell a funny story

  
  
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  Explain a situation and relate the same to your audience

  
  
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  Share a shocking fact

  
  

Look at the opening of this post; has it ever happened to you? You might have asked yourself what happened, what he is trying to say, etc. And, to satisfy your curiosity, you started reading the rest.

5. Promise to Achieve Something Quick

We are living in a hectic era and we love quick things. So, you can promise a method to do something in less time.

Take an example from this post. Get 1000 email subscribers in 7 days. If you are a blogger, you know how difficult it is to get started with list building. Given the fact, this post helps you get 1k subscribers within a matter of just a week.

Just search for a problem. Get all possible solutions. If possible, come up with your own quick fix. Then, share the same with your audience in a catchy way. There you go!

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6. Match the Unmatched

Matching the unmatched is pretty a unique idea to help you get exposure.

For example, look at the subheading of this section. I have coined two terms, opposite to each other in order to depict an idea.

Do more with less is another such article, in which the author incorporated two opposite terms to come up with a single idea.

Don’t do it blindly for the sake of doing it. You should research to get suitable words and ideas.

7. Develop an Emotional Connection with Your Readers

You know what? Emotions get you maximum conversion! Yeah, you read it right! If you manage to develop an emotional connection with your readers, they will not hesitate to buy from you.

So, how can you make the so-called connection?

Well, you must use both first and second-person nouns (I and you to be specific). Even though you write in bulk, a person who reads your article should feel you are directly talking to him.

And, reach out to their humanness. Uncover their needs, wishes, and dreams. Heal their sadness, make them happy. Do all this without crossing your niche constraint. In simple words try to become their friends through blogging.

8. Leverage the Power of Visual Content

An image is worth a thousand words.

The saying is up to the point. If you can design or find the best image or video, you can stop blabbering and leave the rest to the visuals.

Your readers will appreciate you for doing the same.

There is a specific type of image called Infographic. If possible, try to get one. An infographic is an image with tons of information.

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9. Embrace Controversy

You know what controversy means, don’t you? Simply put, it is a dispute or disagreement over something.

I want you to be accurate and straight to the point if you choose this method. You shouldn’t write something not true.

Click here to read one of the most popular controversial posts.

As I said earlier, write your views, facts, and figures, not some false info.

10. Analyze Viral Posts

Yeah, you should do it! Pick a few viral posts and try to find some common traits in them. Maybe, they all contain a number in the title. Maybe, they all start with a thought-provoking question.

You have to open your eyes, observe well, and apply what you get in your next article.

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Conclusion

So, what did you decide?

Do you want to keep on sitting in front of your computer, mechanically publishing blog posts?

Or, do you want to get yourself out there to explore the pleasure of the exposure your content gets?

What’s your choice for Writing a Viral Blog Post?

First one? Well, I feel sorry for you. You shouldn’t have read this.

Second one? Wow! You are a gem! Just follow the tips I have shared with you.

I hope you will share this article with your social media friends.

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So let’s walk into what cloud computing means.

And how does it work?

Let’s describe it in simple terms:

You are using cloud computing already even all this time except you are living in a grotto someplace, and that grotto anyhow doesn’t have an internet connection.

So let me explain this in as simple terms as possible:

Cloud computing implies that preferably of all the PC software and hardware you’re using sitting on your laptop, or someplace inside your organization network, it’s rendered for you as a service by other corporations and accessed over the Internet, usually in a uniquely seamless way. Exactly where the software and hardware are located and how it all works doesn’t matter to you, the user—it’s just scattered in the dark “cloud” that the Internet mirrors.

Cloud computing is a buzzword that implies various things to different people. For some, it’s just another way of explaining information technology(IT) “outsourcing”; some use it to imply any computing service presented over a similar network or the Internet, and some explain it as any computer service that you bought and it lies outside your firewall. However we define cloud computing, there’s no doubt it makes the most sense when we stop talking about abstract definitions and look at some simple, real examples—so let’s do just that.

Examples like: VoIP (e.g., Skype, Google Voice), media services (e.g., Picassa, YouTube, Flickr), social applications (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), financial apps (e.g., Mint), and much more.

Google is a huge example of cloud computing:

Most of us use cloud computing all day long without realizing it.

What appears when you type and search anything on Google?

Have you ever considered it?

Does your computer or laptop go into all that data, distribute it out for you and represent all the appropriate results?

No, it doesn’t.

Unless you would wait much longer for simple results, and pages to show. A simple computer can’t run all those billions of sites in a portion of a second like Google does. Your computer or laptop only follows as a messenger to notify Google what you are searching for. Google’s supercomputers do the rest of the work. Now that Google even has the feature of artificial intelligence which makes it even better.

The same concerns about Web-based email programs. Once upon a time, email was being used to send and receive using an application running on your Personal Computer (i.e. mail client). But then Web-based email services such as Hotmail, and Gmail came and took email off into the cloud. Now we’re all used to it; emails can be stored and accessed via a server, immediately available from a Web browser, anywhere in the world, anytime you like with just an internet connection. Launching email into the cloud is supremely helpful for busy guys, who are frequently on the move.

Another modern example of cloud computing is to make documents over the popular Web-based service named Google Documents. Just log in to Google Docs and you can create a document, presentation, spreadsheet, etc. Alternatively, of typing your words into a traditional program like OpenOffice or Microsoft Word, running on your computer offline, you’re now using related software running on your laptop at one of Google’s universal data centres.

Like an email composed on Hotmail or Gmail, the document you create is stored remotely, on a Web server so that you can access it from any Internet-connected laptop or computer, wherever in the world, anytime you wish.

Do you know where it’s stored?

No! Do you even bother where it’s stored?

Again, no! It means you’re outsourcing your computing requirements to a corporation like Google. They spend the cost of developing the software and maintaining it up-to-date, and they make back the money to do this via advertisement and other paid-for services.

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Types of Cloud Computing:

1. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): IaaS is primarily when you purchase raw computing hardware to use over the internet, usually online storage, or servers. You can buy according to your requirements and pay as you go. The best and the most primary example of this type of cloud computing is purchasing web hosting for your website. You pay a monthly quarterly or annual amount to a cloud hosting provider for the storage on their servers and to have them serve up files for your site from those servers. Ever Data is another good example which gives these types of cloud services.
2. SaaS (Software as a Service): In the SaaS model, you use the complete software application that’s operating on somebody else’s servers. The perfect example of SaaS is Google Docs. As mentioned above, you can use it for generating and putting text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and so on.
3. PaaS (Platform as a Service): The PaaS model helps to build applications using web-based tools, and operates on systems software and hardware provided by another vendor. Let’s, consider a circumstance where you develop your e-commerce site which includes the shopping cart, checkout, and payment mechanism running on a merchant’s server.

Now let’s look at the cloud deployment models.

Public cloud: This is where computing resources given by a cloud provider are used by various companies via the public Internet on a PAYG(pay as you go) model. Cloud providers ensure some separation of resources used by different organizations. It is known as multi-tenancy.

Private cloud: This is where cloud infrastructure is entirely controlled by an organization and managed either by the company itself or a third party and can be located off-site or on-site. Computing resources are behind the corporate firewall. And cloud computing can also secure your data using the private cloud.

Community cloud: In this, cloud infrastructure is owned and shared by multiple companies with a shared concern.

Hybrid cloud: It is the combination of all cloud models like Public and Private models combined with standardized or proprietary technology.

The benefits of using cloud computing are scalability, sustainability, agility, reliability, economies of scale, faster time to market and developing prototypes with enhanced efficiency.

Why do Companies Love the Cloud?

As you can see with all the examples and types mentioned above, you should start taking the cloud advantages and latest technologies without paying a small capital on software, infrastructure, and IT specialists. If you want to brush up more on why companies love the cloud, watch the video below.

Conclusion:

Cloud computing has created a vibration in the IT landscape. The cloud enactment rate is growing dramatically. It is a time for companies to think of cloud computing for turbulent business challenges ahead.

What are your thoughts?

Share them in the comments below.

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