I’m starting to see some interesting results (the second one is really surprising).
First, the average number of views of my social media posts over the past 30 days has increased by 10%-20% based on a tracker that keeps a running record of total views over a previous 30-day timeframe.
And I’ve only just begun revising my posts about 2 weeks ago and posting fewer than usual because it takes more time to rewrite them.
While this might not be deemed reaching “viral” levels yet, it is an immediate improvement.
It will be interesting to see how things play out over the next two weeks and a month once I get more posts on social media.
I find the second result interesting, but how this happened is a bit of a mystery.
On December 18th, I had a massive spike in visitors and pageviews on my blog: about 10x more visits and 100x more pageviews than usual.
Just that day.
No idea why.
Perhaps one of my social media posts with a link to my blog as the Action Step (Part 4 of the formula) did go “viral” that day without me realizing it.
I just checked some recent social media posts but don’t see anything in particular there so that it could have been an older post or something else I don’t know about yet.
This is pretty cool because this has never happened before.
Will it happen again?
No clue.
I’ll keep an eye on this.
And just to add more insight into what I am doing, I’ll share an example of a post that I recently changed:
Here is the old headline I used:
“How a blog has helped my online business as an affiliate marketer.”
It’s ok. Or borderline boring? The target audience is affiliate marketers, and the post explained how my blog has helped my online business as an affiliate.
This probably only attracts those interested in affiliate marketing, particularly those with a blog or interested in starting a blog.
Here’s what I changed it to:
“You won’t believe this incredible asset that changed my affiliate business forever (and not enough affiliates are talking about it either)”
To me, this is a better headline.
Instead of mentioning a blog, I mention an incredible asset.
I want people to wonder what asset I’m referring to.
This can be of interest not only to affiliates but also to other people with online businesses.
The target audience is bigger.
I then say that this asset changed my affiliate business forever.
I genuinely believe this. This blog has been a game-changer for me. And I explain how in the post.
Then I added “(and not enough affiliates are talking about it either)” at the end.
This refers to my belief that many affiliates are missing out on this incredible asset.
I explain what I mean by this a bit in the post.
Now, I’m no expert in this stuff yet.
This is all about practicing, thinking, strategizing, processing, and analyzing the Viral Video Formula and applying it as best possible.
I’ll improve, develop more unique or interesting headlines, and build up phrases.
But I’m starting to understand how changing the wording can make a post more interesting and increase curiosity!
Plus, I’m getting improved results, which is precisely what I want!