Every blogger has had times when he or she checked out their most recent viewer stats and suddenly noticed the number of visits wasn’t quite as great as they had hoped. Maybe there was a persistent, downhill trend in the number of unique monthly visitors, or a tendency not to rank well with some of your most well put together content. That’s very disappointing for you as a blogger, especially if you sell ads based on predicted traffic through your site. So you have probably thought to yourself, “if only I could create something that would go viral.” Well, that’s just about impossible to do on purpose for a number of reasons, but there are some things you can do to head in the right direction.
In this infographic you will notices a great collection of common traits found in the most viral bits of content on the Internet. This might not mean you can reproduce the same qualities in something you invent for exactly that purpose — but it can at least give you an idea of what has worked so far.
