Most bloggers dream of having their posts go viral on social media, and for good reason. A single viral post can easily drive more traffic to a blog than it usually gets in several months.

Although I don’t go out out of my way to try to make my own blog posts go viral, they sometimes do all on their own. And of course I love it when that happens.

My most popular post of all time was written in just a few minutes, with very little thought given to it at all. It’s titled Why you should always ‘Like’ your own Facebook posts, and when I wrote it I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular to come of it.  [Read more…]