Article went viral on FB; shared more than 50K times in 8 days

by Adie
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I never expected this to happen and Hostgator disabled my account because of heavy traffic. I think it's pure luck. A 9-day old website went on to dominate google search pages after one of my articles went viral since 8 days ago and today, it's been shared more than 50K already. Although Adsense CTR is very low at around 1%, Adsense earnings on site tops $1,427 as of yesterday's cut-off plus $927 Clickbank sales and $327 in Amazon advertising fees.

Facebook really is a big moneymaker and the good thing is that, I never spent a dime promoting it...
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  • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
    this is what I want!!!!

    dam ....it how you do it

    since you mention never do anything???
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    • Profile picture of the author Amanda Russell
      Well done! How did you resolve the Hostgator issue? I had a similar problem when one of my posts went bonkers on Stumbleupon. They restricted my site and threatend to shut me down.
      It turned out the plugin Wordfence was causing high CPU problems. Since I removed it all has been well :-)
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      • Profile picture of the author Adie
        Originally Posted by Amanda Russell View Post

        Well done! How did you resolve the Hostgator issue? I had a similar problem when one of my posts went bonkers on Stumbleupon. They restricted my site and threatend to shut me down.
        It turned out the plugin Wordfence was causing high CPU problems. Since I removed it all has been well :-)
        I redirected the post to blogspot page with similar content for 5 hours while transferring the site to namecheap... The traffic lasted 8 days. As of now, I still receive 2500 visits per hour... The article is actually a satirical news..

        Hostgator says Shareaholic plugin was abusing their server..
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery Moss
    And, this is what any webmaster or blogger would wish for, the story that goes viral. Breaking news and gossip stories usually do this. Though I know that now everyone will want to know what your story was about.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ghoster
    This is why social is becoming more important than Google. Well, that is, if you create high-quality content.
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    On the whole, you get what you pay for.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    You could create a WSO and wreck it right now...

    Everyone wants to know what your website is man.

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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by Sarevok View Post

      You could create a WSO and wreck it right now...

      Everyone wants to know what your website is man.

      I don't have any plan to do it right now... Another article is also trending with around 2k shares now since I posted yesterday.... Creating a WSO is not really my forte. I'm just happy seeing how this new site performs..I'm not good in creating a sales page.hehe
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  • Profile picture of the author DannyYang
    We all want to know what's the content of your article?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jan79
    That's awesome indeed! Share the article please
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  • Profile picture of the author markeeter
    Originally Posted by Adie View Post

    I never expected this to happen and Hostgator disabled my account because of heavy traffic. I think it's pure luck. A 9-day old website went on to dominate google search pages after one of my articles went viral since 8 days ago and today, it's been shared more than 50K already. Although Adsense CTR is very low at around 1%, Adsense earnings on site tops $1,427 as of yesterday's cut-off plus $927 Clickbank sales and $327 in Amazon advertising fees.

    Facebook really is a big moneymaker and the good thing is that, I never spent a dime promoting it...
    Oh that's awesome Dude! The wonders of Facebook Hope your second article, and the others to come get the same luck as well
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  • Profile picture of the author Flyingpig7
    Congratulations Adie it seems you've mastered something a great advertisement for your services. You deserve it, you've worked hard for it, I take it wasn't overnight success.

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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by Flyingpig7 View Post

      Congratulations Adie it seems you've mastered something a great advertisement for your services. You deserve it, you've worked hard for it, I take it wasn't overnight success.

      Keren
      Since I started this thread 11 days ago, my site has reached 1.2 million views with 6 viral articles. Yes Keren, this is not an overnight success and this is not also from some people's course. This is a result of observation and analysis and the test is successful enough and even surpassed 1000% my expectation. I just received a ping from Adsense yesterday for having 1M impressions.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashleydaniel
    Whats your article man..? Just make a share with all.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jan79
      Originally Posted by ashleydaniel View Post

      Whats your article man..? Just make a share with all.
      I'd also like to know, or at least give us tips on how you did it
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    I cannot give you the link to my viral articles as my website is already reaching the server resources limit but here is a link that can give you idea what I am doing.
    Satire News Websites Are Cashing in on Gullible, Outraged Readers | New Republic

    Read and analyze..
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