Sasmita Samanta Singhar

Creating valuable content for your website that turns into Viral Content is the dream of every website owner. But how do you make sure you produce valuable viral content – rather than nonsense content, that is quickly forgotten? Last year I reviewed hundreds of different posts and figured out most viral content shares 4 common elements. Elements that are essential for viral success and shareability! Also, my research revealed that some of the most shared content arguably had little commercial value. The clever marketers are the ones who find away to make this often cute and funny content into commercially viable content. I mean what is the point of attracting huge amounts of visitors and paying enormous bandwidth and hosting costs if that traffic has no benefit in terms of sales etc.

20 years ago, blogs didn’t exist. Today, there are over 150 million of them. Still, I get a lot of puzzled looks when I tell people that having a blog is the single most important thing a business, cause, or person can do to advance online. Even though ‘blogging’ has hit it big, most people don’t get what makes blogging so powerful, helpful, and beneficial. To put an end to that, I’ve compile a list of the 20 biggest benefits of having a blog below. If you’re among the uninitiated, prepare to be enlightened. If you’ve already started a blog of your own (as I assume many of you Income Diary readers do) then you can consider this an affirmation of why you do what you — and a good place to direct people who still think that a blog is just a pointless public diary. There are many perks of having a blog as you will see. The 20 Biggest Benefits of Blogging #1 Get a Better Job According to MediaBistro, nine in ten companies mine online profiles before making a new hire. Employers wa...