Our Recent Experience with Viral Media
Last week, James posted a story about his eye surgery on his personal Web site (and updated it yesterday to include a video). While it only got a total of 8 Diggs, it really took off on several other social media Web sites, including Reddit. His site received over 2,000 views in 3 days, with 10% of those viewers clicking through to Queen Bee’s site. James’ site has been a great tool for us to demonstrate the power of SEO and now the power of viral media.
For those of you we haven’t mentioned this to yet, try Googling “Indiana’s Coolest Guy.” Yep, that’s right, James is Indiana’s coolest guy. For some reason clients, friends, family, and everyone else thinks this is way cooler than if we talk about successes with our business Web site or other clients’ sites. And now with the eye surgery page taking off virally, we can also demonstrate the power of social media Web sites. It’s a great way to show that if you create interesting content, people will spread it for you.
