4 Types of Posts That You Can Use to Generate Viral Blog Traffic

If you have been wondering why some blogs seem to take off while others struggle to attract readers, it is important for you to understand what goes into a successful blog post. Mostly what attracts people to these bloggers’ content is a mixture of psychology and well-written content.

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If you have been wondering why some blogs seem to take off while others struggle to attract readers, it is important for you to understand what goes into a successful blog post. Mostly what attracts people to these bloggers’ content is a mixture of psychology and well-written content.

Here are a few types of blog posts that you can use to drive traffic to your site.

Contrarian Posts

Call this a more dignified version of trolling if you will. However, taking the contrarian viewpoint on an issue in a blog post is a legitimate method of getting traffic to your site.

When you combine this approach with a topic that is trending in the news or is otherwise important to people currently, you’ll have a recipe for potential success. Some examples of headlines such as these include:

Why Most Diet Attempts Are Completely Worthless

Why Promoting Your Blog Is a Waste of Time

These types of posts can cause readers to fight back and forth about the content being presented which ultimately results in more shares and even more readers.

While these contratrian posts may garner feedback from readers, the writer must be careful not to provide a headline that is simply misleading. Not only will the article lose credibility with readers, it may also lead to accusations of false advertising in cases where the content is being used to promote a product or service.

All-in-one Posts

All-in-one posts are frequently used to cover everything there is to know about a particular topic. These blog posts can become extremely long. However, they are effective at bringing in traffic because they demonstrate the writer’s position as an authority on the subject area.

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All-in-one posts can be especially effective at bringing in traffic when they contain evergreen content. If you plan to include an all-in-one post on your blog, it is essential that you make sure that the content is periodically updated so that it always contains reliable information for your readers.

Failing to update such a post can lead to a loss of traffic as readers migrate to other websites that appear in the comments section of your original blog post for more up-to-date information.

Some examples of all-in-one post headlines include:

Everything You Need to Know About Woodworking Tools

A Complete Guide to Finding a Job in the Oil Industry

List Posts

List posts have been done to death all over the internet (this post might even count as one). However, the bottom line is that list posts are effective at bringing in blog traffic, especially when the topic of the post is of interest to readers. A good way to come up with an idea for a list post is to find another popular list post and take a slightly different angle on it than the original blogger.

Some examples of list post headlines include:

10 Foods Most People Hate to Eat

5 Reasons Why San Francisco Is the Best City to Live In

In addition, to the fact that the reader wants to learn your point of view on the topic by reviewing the list, this type of post can also act as a contrarian post as readers fight over the items that were or should have been included in your list.

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Trending Keyword Posts

Posts that are written based on currently trending keywords have a strong potential for going viral thanks to the timeliness of the message.

That said, keyword clickbait will not do and the post still needs to provide valuable information in regards to the keyword phrase in order to be shared by readers.

Some examples of trending keyword blog post headlines include:

What’s the Coolest Way to Celebrate Pi Day?

See the Rotation of Cyclone Pam From Space

(according to Google Trends for today http://www.google.com/trends/)

About the Length

As you write posts to fit one or more of these style types, these posts do not necessary have to be lengthy. In fact, many list posts are often quite short at around 500 words or less and get the point across by including images.

However, certain types of posts, such as the all-in-one post, bring in more traffic when they are longer. Posts that are 2,000 words or longer are ideal in this case because they are long enough for the reader to have to digest in multiple sittings.

This means that your content will be bookmarked and used as a reference material.

What sort of posts have brought in the most traffic to your blog?

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