How Shoemoney Increased His Traffic From 1,000 To 150,000 UVs A Day - Overnight

But how do you know which niches might get 'viral'? Shotgun approach? What about the cost benefit analysis most responsible business people need to make to ensure they get as much value from their most precious resource: their time?

Hi WA,

Every niche has virally popular pieces of content regardless of how mundane that content might seem to people outside that niche.

If a business will spend money on SEO, Web design, offline ads (that mostly fail) and miscellaneous marketing, why not look at at least trying to create something with the potential for viral popularity?

There was also a guy who sold 1 million pixels on his website for 1 million dollars.

Let's all go and start a pixel website Oh wait, thousands of people did and made no money.

These stories as nice as they are are VERY few and far between. I certainly wouldn't be counting on this any any serious form of my marketing plan. If it happens, great, but paid traffic is much more reliable.

You should always be creating content people would like to share.

No, I didn't interpret anything you wrote. I was simply replying to the OP who created this thread. He was talking about viral marketing and I was simply saying that viral marketing although great, isn't something you can plan and isn't something that should be relied upon. It's one of those things that just happens and it usually happens to those that least expect it.

I think creating products you enjoy and you would use yourself just goes without saying, well it does for me. If you aren't creating products people would want to share then you need to get back to the drawing board.

I think he just got lucky, there's i think a .1% chance of having that luck, overnight. out of 100 million people, only 1 made it that way. imagine that?

Yeah, I was a guy who made one of those pixel websites, hahaha. I actually did make a little money off it, because I sold it in Japanese market, which had never seen the idea before, but still didn't make a million bucks.

Luck definitely plays a part, but at the same time what Shoemoney is saying is right. I've had the best results with stuff I'd use myself (or have used myself).

Shoemoney, definitly some inspiring stuff. As i'm sure that it is tough to find products and websites to go viral. But it can definitely be done. It is a matter of just finding that right thing. I am enjoying every moment of working my way through to something ground breaking. It is just a matter of time.

luck my friends does not play any part of this at all.

So Do not to debate it.

Shoemoney, is a site well known for its content. So there are no need to defend him and make him sound like some guy in a basement who spends 1 hour a day posting up stuff to his blog.

Go read his profile, luck played no part. With his posts, he spent many hours coming up with the content, and then profiling and adding things that he knew would increase the chances of people spreading it virally. He spends many hours making sure he is putting stuff on his blog that makes people come back everyday.

Again do not talk about luck, luck is no more than when hard work meets opportunity. If you put the hard yards in, and learn to actually promote your blog posts the way they are meant to be promoted, only then will you see results, luck my friends plays no part.

You should be doing the things, and creating content that is not only good, but WOWS, your prospects. His site is always a step above the rest, and I am sure he intended it to be like this from day one. You have to be different to get better results. you cannot just be another sheep among the crowd you have to be that 1 or 2 sheep that stand out, and make people take notice.

WORK HARD, and CREATE KILLER CONTENT. Dont listen to all those spin kings, or those trying to take the easy route.

Since when has not creating killer content ever gotten people places.

I know a well known blog author here in OZ, who has a blog that gets 1 million hits a day. He spends 4-6hours a day just on one blog post a day, so that it is not just a blog post it is a masterpiece, do that and watch how things will grow naturally.

Shoemoney does create great content. I used to get some traffic to my blog through the old digg.com but now digg is not what it used to be.

If you can create a website that people use consistently or that entertains them you can go viral. Just invest as much time into creating quality content to increase your chances of that big hit.

So he got the Digg effect. Once people were aware of his site they kept coming back, so it seems he was offering something people wanted to see and return to.

The Digg effect is the luck part of this though. If he never had that then the site would probably still be making next to nothing. I don't know if Digg still has that power anymore.

There isn't really a "How" here. I don't think he knows how he got onto the front page of Digg. This is more luck.