HOW TO CREATE A VIRAL WEBSITE

Introduction - What is a viral website? A viral website as defined by Investopedia is one that has become so popular that word-of-mouth, links, and social media sharing generate an abnormally large amount of web traffic to the site.

Viral sites typically become popular through being forwarded to friends and family, who then forward it to their own network, causing the traffic to the site to grow exponentially.

Table of content

1. Introduction
2. Reason why starting a viral website is beneficial in current social media scenario?
3. Viral website works for
4. Skills needed to create a viral website
5. Time Required To create a viral website
6. Steps on how to create a viral website
7. Conclusion

A viral website is also a website which publishes interesting, informative or surprising content and inspires its readers to share its content with their social media friends.

It’s a kind of a website which gets popular and drives traffic through social media sharing and makes money by publishing advertisements (ads). 

If you are an internet lover I know that you might have come across some famous websites like Buzzfeed.com, Upworthy.com, Viralnova.com or Boredpanda.com these are the world’s most famous viral websites.

Reason why starting a viral website is beneficial in current social media scenario?

Today’s social media users love to share interesting stuff with their friends or tag them. It’s a growing trend which can make anything go viral without much of advertising or marketing efforts.

You can leverage this sharing trend on social media and make money by creating some interesting articles, sharing them on social media, driving people to your website and make money by publishing advertisements (ads).

Another merit of creating a viral website is that you can instantly drive traffic to your website via social media channels and make money, you don’t need to rely on Google or SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques and wait for months and tears to see a steady flow of traffic to your website.

Viral website works for

• People who love to read and write about interesting topics as art.
• People who love social media.

Skills needed to create a viral website

• 1. Ability of an individual to write interesting and read worthy articles.
• 2. Ability to dig out exciting and share-worthy topics from the internet.
• 3. Basic WordPress website operating skills.

Read also HOW TO DESIGN A WEBSITE USING WORDPRESS (with screenshots)

Time Required To create a viral website

You will need time to setup your website, social media fan page, finding topics and writing articles on them as a beginner. Depending upon your experience time required might vary, but most of you can get your website running and publish your first article within a week’s time. If you are an internet lover and you have interest on website development, you must have come across some articles that teach how to create websites with WordPress, Blogger and other blogging platforms for hosting your website online.

Steps on how to create a viral website

Step 1 - Setup your WordPress viral website (i.e. if you wish to use WordPress as your blogging platform).

Setting up a WordPress website is easy, and you don’t need to know all web programming languages or learn any technical stuff before you can set it up.

You will just need a domain name “e.g. Jonakyblog.com” and a hosting account with a good web host to set up your Wordpress site.

If you need a step by step guide for doing this, you can read my article on how to design a WordPress website below

Read also HOW TO DESIGN A WEBSITE USING WORDPRESS (with screenshots)

Or you can watch WordPress tutorial videos on YouTube to get started.


Step 2 - Create a Facebook fan page for you viral website.

You can create a Facebook fan page within minutes, but if you still need any help, you can always get help by searching it on Google with your targeted key word e.g. “How to create Facebook fan page” on Google.

Use professional-looking and amazing photos for your Facebook page’s display picture and cover photo and don’t forget to fill in all the necessary details regarding your website while creating the page on Facebook.

I would also suggest you take a look at the Facebook pages of other popular viral websites and take ideas and information from them to set up your own Facebook page.


Below is the list of some popular viral websites whose Facebook pages you can use for research purposes as regards creating your own page:

Buzzfeed.com
Vice.com
Viralnova.com
Littlethings.com
Upworthy.com
Distractify.com
Thoughtcatalog.com
Ranker.com
Twistedsifter.com
Twentytwowords.com
Boredbug.com
Sickchirpse.com
Therichest.com
Boredpanda.com
Guff.com
Cracked.com
List25.com
Omgfacts.com
Cheezburger.com

Step 3 - Publish viral content on your website and share them on your social media handles e.g. Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest.

Finding viral content and publishing them on your website is the most challenging task in this business model but fortunately, there’s a simple solution to this problem.

Just visit all the popular viral websites that I have mentioned above and find out which of their articles are trending, study their Facebook pages and look for the articles that have got most shares then rewrite using your own grammar and publish your own article on the same topic on your website.

A word of caution here, never copy any articles from other websites unless you want to get banned from Google or Facebook.

The idea here is to dig out the topics that are already popular then rewrite articles on them in your own unique perspective.

This strategy saves your time and also helps you write articles on topics which are already popular thus maximizing their chances to get viral.

Step 4 - Place Google AdSense advertisement (ads).

The best way to make money from your viral site is by placing Google Adsense ads, they’re easy to place, and when your site visitors click on your Adsense ads, you will earn money. Google Adsense also pays you for visitors that saw their advertisement on your website. So even if some of your visitors clicked on your Adsense ads and others just view it when scrolling through your website, you will be paid for all of them.

If you are using WordPress, use a Wordpress plugin called Quick Adsense for placing Adsense ads in the most optimal way that will generate higher clicks in your website.

Step 5 - Grow your social media fan page.

When you’re just starting your viral website, the best way to grow your fan page is by using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. and use them to run advertisement.

For instance if you want to grow your fan page using your Facebook fan page, you can start with a daily ad budget of $5 to $10 and promote your page posts. Ads will help your page get traffic, traction, and followers.

Step 6 - Checkmate and Repeat

When you have successfully created your viral website, you will have to repeatedly research, find, rewrite, publish and promote new exciting content if you want to make money in this business because the more content you have, the more chances you will have to share them to your social media pages and generate traffic to your website. This process will actually generate money to you from your viral website if you have placed advertisement in your website.

The more you do it more money you’ll make hence get into the habit of doing all these tasks daily.

Conclusion

Some passive income earners owns a viral website that generates money to their account steady. If you can successfully create your own viral website and monetize it, you will have chances to make money even when you are sleeping.

For you to generate more income with your viral website, always make sure that your social media fan pages is booming. At first you can spend money promoting your fan pages.

This is to make your fan pages known to people from different places in the world depending on your targeted area.

Thank you for reading

HOW TO CREATE A VIRAL WEBSITE