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  • Get Content For Your Viral Content Site

    Get Content For Your Viral Content Site

    viral-content-sourcesOne of the challenges of creating a viral news site is getting content that will be shared by your audience. After all, that is the whole essence of a top viral content site.

    The content for the site should be funny, educative or emotionally striking to be shared. Of course, with more shares, we get more traffic that will be attractive to advertisers.

    You can either do the hard work of creating amazing content like TheOatmeal.com does or curate content already created by other publishers.  There are both upsides and downsides of curating and creating original content.

    Curating Content for Your Viral News Site

    To begin, if you are curating, you are basically getting content that has already been created and posting it on your viral news blog, but with attribution to the original source. I will not go through the morality of curating content but a good IM friend of mine calls it “blatant stealing” with attribution.

    I will leave that for you to decide.

    Morality aside, I see no reason not to curate content as long as you attribute the original source of the article. Moreover, curating some content may actually be helpful to the individuals or causes they address. Take the example of you creating content of a unique artwork artist. You can get the artist more exposure and catapult his/her business.

    With that said, it’s always good to have a DCMA notice on your viral nova clone. This way, anyone who would like their content pulled down can serve you a notice to remove their content.

    The benefit of curating content is clear: someone has already  done the hard work for you. Your job is to simply find the content you want, post it on your viral news site and attribute it to the original owner. Moreover, you can add your own spin or “juice” to the article if you wish to make it more original and suit your target audience.

    The major downside of curating content is that the content may already have been shared many times across the web. This means the content may not have the impact you wish on your audience. The content may have been overly shared and some of the issues they may be addressing may have been overtaken with events.

    Creating Original Content

    Creating content is the ideal way of building your viral news site. The major problem with creating content on your own is that it takes time. And I mean a lot of time, to create good content. You need to scour the web to find great content or to create content based on information you find. This means having to do a lot of research.

    With that said, there are many places you can find content to create on the web. You can go to obvious popular sources like Reddit to less obscure niche forums like Alien UFOs. Whichever option you choose, make sure you have time to do the research and confirm some of the information you get.

    [bctt tweet=”When you are starting your viral nova clone, you will probably need to curate content.”]

    This is especially if you will be working on the site as a side project or on your own. However, depending on your niche and growth, you may find it necessary to create original content. Both ways work.

    The major task will be driving traffic to your viral nova clone. That is a post for another time.

    Get Content from Top Viral Content Sites

    With that said, here’s a list of top viral content sites you can curate content from:

    4allfails.com
    4wrong.com
    7secvidsu4.com
    9gag.tv
    abcn.ws
    allthingsviral.com
    amazing-buzz.com
    amerikanki.com
    amplifyingglass.com
    atashatrending.com
    azviralbuzz.com
    ba-bamail.com
    babbel.com
    barkpost.com
    bestofvinetrendingvideos.com
    bestpictureblog.com
    Betterfamilyhome.com
    bloxi.com
    boredpanda.com
    brilliantearth.com
    buzzdrives.com
    buzzfaze.com
    buzzfeed.com
    buzzive.com
    cambio.com
    canyouactually.com
    carophile.com
    cbc.ca
    celebrityrevolt.com
    coconuts.co
    controversialtimes.com
    coviral.com
    cracked.com
    dailymail.co.uk
    deathandtaxesmag.com
    diply.com
    distractify.com
    dumpest.com
    elitereaders.com
    englishrussia.com

    As you may have realized, we don’t have the big boys like viralnova.com, upworthy.com and others on the list. Well, I just took a random sample from the list os over 150 viral news sites that  use to get content from. The list contains sites covering all range of topics, from breaking news to celebrities, cars to health. Want the list? Click below to download the list of over 150 viral news sites in Excel.

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  • Viral Content Sites: Should You Go Niche?

    Viral Content Sites: Should You Go Niche?

    viral-content-sitesHey everyone,

    Welcome to another episode of my VN Experiment. It’s been quite a long time since I updated my blog. You can blame it on laziness.

    Anyone, back to the topic at hand. Should you go niche or general with your viral content sites?

    I have set up my VN clone like any other WordPress site. I have use the Socially Viral theme for the look and set up the basic stuff like plugins and the like. I will write a different post on the plugins I have used. Today, I wanted to address the issue of content.

    Should you go niche or go for general content with your VN content?

    Going either way can be profitable depending on how you approach it. Here are the pro and cons of going niche or going general.

    Niche Content for Your Viral Site

    If you choose to build a niche viral site content, your main asset will be the audience you will have. Since the audience is niche, it is easier to promote or sell items related to the niche. Apart from this, you can get higher ad dollars from advertisers when it comes to monetization.

    You can monetize your audience by selling affiliate products, your own products, email ads, and so on.  It will also be easy to connect with advertisers since you are a niche content provider with a niche audience. There are a number of viral sites that are niche focused doing this already.

    The downside with niche viral sites is that you may not get a large enough audience to attract advertisers. Most adverstisers will pay you based on the amount of traffic  your site gets. If you are not attracting huge amounts of traffic, it will be difficult to get ad revenues.

    However, you can still do well with other monetization avenues such as affiliate and your own products.

    General Content for Your Viral Site

    The next option is to create a general viral content site. This means you go the ViralNova route, posting content in a variety of niches such as animals, nature, people, celebrities and so on. The good news with building a general content viral site is that you can get floods of traffic since you are targeting anyone who loves sensational content.

    Apart from this, generating traffic would be easy since you are covering multiple niches.  The multiple niches means you can go after different audiences. This essentially means your site would be like a conglomeration of multiple smaller niche sites. With the large traffic, getting ad dollars is likely to be easier especially if you are monetizing through Adsense and similar programs.

    However,  you will need to segment your audience if you will want to go for some monetization routes like email advertising or affiliate marketing.

    Which Route Should You Go?

    Either of the above routes can earn you significant income if you take the time to put the work.However, going multi niche will be more profitable both in the short and long term. Since you want to make money as quickly as possible, you can drive huge loads of traffic to your viral site from different avenues.

    Moreover, you have multiple avenues of driving traffic to your viral site if you are covering multiple niches. For instance, a viral health article would be good to promote in health related niches while a series of dog pictures can be put before audiences that love dogs on Facebook through boosting posts.

    For my site, I am going multi niche. It’s a numbers game with a viral site.  With a large audience, even articles that may not have gone viral when targeted to a niche audience will have a chance to get viral.

    In the next post, I will write about my content strategy for the viral site.