My journey making a profitable site like Viral Nova

[bustatoad]

OP what plugins are you using for your site?

 

[Mindanao]

Good luck with your journey mate. I wish you all the best.

 

[insomnijak]

I guess OP abandoned this thread, too bad.

I started a similar site 3 weeks ago and found out that my biggest challenge is to find a way to boost my FB page. Whatever I post, my reach is zero. My budget for adds is low, as well as my knowledge about it.

Is it possible to succeed without huge FB pages sharing and liking your posts? Can anyone help me acquire some FB pages?

 

[Spawnie]

I guess OP lost his adsense-account on this one...

 

[roxxer]

I guess OP abandoned this thread, too bad.

I started a similar site 3 weeks ago and found out that my biggest challenge is to find a way to boost my FB page. Whatever I post, my reach is zero. My budget for adds is low, as well as my knowledge about it.

Is it possible to succeed without huge FB pages sharing and liking your posts? Can anyone help me acquire some FB pages?

Same here. Started a page too but it will not run....no likes come in.
Has written some unique articel with pictures and share them on my FB page...
but I think Facebook dont show all post from sites with less likes.

Greeting

 

[glassneeds2]

Hey there,

I am basically just a normal guy with no deep knowledge of SEO and internet marking but always had a passion for startups and internet things. While I have been very passive so far regarding online businesses (sold some gold in mmorpgs when I was younger...) I was curious when I heard of Viral Nova and its success. I watched their site and thought that anyone can make a site like them.

And this time I said to myself: Enough of just watching others having success. It is time to stop thinking and start doing. So without any experience I bought a domain, web hosting, a theme and set up a site like Viral Nova in July 2014.

I am using this thread to keep me motivated and hopefully to inspire others. I have also set up a blog covering more details and strategies I use.

My strategy:

I am creating a site quite similar to Viral Nova with the focus on touching stories & animals but not solely for the US market. Still I expect a large enough audience to make the site profitable. Speaking of the audience: I have clearly find out that the target audience for my niche (stories and animals) is female and between 18-45 years old. This is very important for Facebook advertising! If you have another niche (e.g. sports) you might want to target males between 13-32 that like soccer, football, baseball...Knowing your audience plays a key role!

The focus will be on a fast and mobile-optimzed website and a Facebook fanpage to get traffic. One aspect that may differ from what you expect and what others suggest is that I am not going to push 5-10 posts every day. Instead I am planning on 2-3 posts a week combined with quotes, facts and images.

This tactic is important to a) save money in the beginning, b) reduce the danger of people getting tired of a new page that keeps posting & posting. I rather want my audience to slowly grow with my site in order to establish long term relationships with them.

I also made the experience that Facebook advertising can be more effective if used from time to time rather than several times a day. In the beginning I solely boost single posts on Facebook rather than advertising my site or the fanpage. It worked very well for me to start with 1-2 pictures before I post a link to my website.

My main source for content will be what other sites have posted 1-2 years ago as people seem to forget what they have seen pretty quick. I am also looking for 1-2 unique stories a month for differentiation. Reddit, tumblr and Pinterest as well as community boards are a good source of inspiration.

As for SEO: I will use the SEO Plugin by Yoast to optimize my site and posts but not do any off-page optimization as I rely on social media traffic heavily in the beginning.

My progress so far:

July income report:
Income: $0
Expenses: $98,49

• Hosting
• Theme
• Wordpress plugins
• Facebook Ads

August income report:
Income: $876,75

• Adsense

Expenses: $125,49

• Hosting
• Facebook Ads

September income report:
in progress

Thank you for reading and feel free to ask me any questions!

Do you have an update on your income? Are you still pursuing this type of Viralnova system?

 

[yensidtlaw]

I started doing this about 10 months ago. I went viral a few times (starting in May) and on my best day I earned $600+. Now I'm riding the viral roller coaster. I'm at the bottom ready to climb the hill again. Never advertised on Facebook, which might explain why my page only has around 10,000 likes. I started FB ads today. Thanks for the tips.

 

[IbStar]

I started doing this about 10 months ago. I went viral a few times (starting in May) and on my best day I earned $600+. Now I'm riding the viral roller coaster. I'm at the bottom ready to climb the hill again. Never advertised on Facebook, which might explain why my page only has around 10,000 likes. I started FB ads today. Thanks for the tips.

Good luck mate, keep at it

 

[mynameis940]

I also started doing this ~2 weeks ago, starting with FB Ads, pretty hard if you ask me, not sure how these people did, but I guess it takes time

 

[yensidtlaw]

I also started doing this ~2 weeks ago, starting with FB Ads, pretty hard if you ask me, not sure how these people did, but I guess it takes time

Honestly, it's just a matter of luck. Yes you can up your chances of going viral by posting and up voting on reddit/ Facebook/ similar sites, but when it comes down to it. It's just luck.

 

[mynameis940]

Honestly, it's just a matter of luck. Yes you can up your chances of going viral by posting and up voting on reddit/ Facebook/ similar sites, but when it comes down to it. It's just luck.

You're right, reddit is kinda strict when it comes down to advertising. But if it goes viral on Reddit, it can surely help you gain traffic.

 

[fiioRe]

Good luck. Will follow this thread!

 

[alwaysjwalker]

Thanks man! Around 500k unique visitors!

How you get 500k uv from
A $128 ad spend ?

 

[praveenkumarad]

This method is still working or not?