How to go Viral: Create Something Fun
Thursday, October 1st, 2009This is similar to several of the posts I have already written. I did a post on helping people. I did another on getting people excited. I have yet to talk about doing something fun. You want to make sure people are enjoying themselves on your website. If you think about it, it is kind of like your house. It is like you are having company over and you need to make sure there is plenty of food and lots of entertainment.
Of course people love FREE stuff. If you have FREE stuff, readers will continue to come back over and over again in hopes to win FREE stuff.
You can also make things fun by playing games. Come up with some sort of game that has to do with what you are talking about. Provide a prize for the winners. It can be as easy as a digital copy of the series of articles you have written on the subject they are playing the game for.
I have seen all kinds of Forum games. One of my favorites is the word association game. The forum thread starts off with a word that has to do with the website. The next entry will be someone naming a second word that pops into their head when they think of the first. I have seen this came go on for thousands of entries. Of course you have to have a busy forum for something like this to take place.
Start some kind of round robin. Start a story or a poem and allow your readers to continue that story or poem in the form of a blog comment.
I am sure there are multitudes of ways to entertain your visitors. Make sure they are happy, and they will stay a long time.


