The term “meme” is easy to experience but difficult to describe. Basically it is a disease we catch in our culture and society. It is nothing physical but causes a serious alternation in our mentality. Its effect of grouping people into one container can easily be identified in the social media world. Here are 7 qualities possessed by some top rated websites.
1. Nice Content
To capture audience’s attention, great content is the first way to go. As long as it is relevant and well-packaged, people will be attracted to your site. There are 2 main genre of content: the creative, authentic ones and the shorter, ordinary ones. It all depends on your talent. If you are too lazy to write a loaded piece, you can always keep it real and produce loosely organized content.
2. Simplicity
People go to the Internet for a good laugh more than some grand philosophies. So keep your content as delightful to read as you can.
Sometimes you don’t even need to build something fancy and custom yourself. This Is Why You’re Fat runs off of Tumblr , which is a great platform for testing out whether or not the public will eat up your idea, and also has integrated sharing features which is helpful for growth. Depending on what your project is, you may not need to expand beyond it, but if you do, the next step up would be a service like WordPress , which affords the administrator more customized options. You can always build your own site, but that can often be time and cash-intensive.
3. Project Your Emotions
People will love your site for their being related to its content. Choose a topic with which people can associate themselves, whether it is about family or pets. It will then be much easier to gather people who feel the same way.
4. Claim That Sovereignty
You want to be unique and outstanding. Be a master of your own so that no one will be able to claim their idea or accuse you of being a copycat. In your own creation, you are free to do whatever you want.
5. Share It
As with all things on the ever-growing social web, memes live and die by the ability to share content. If your content isn’t bite-sized and isn’t surrounded by some controls to share: Like, Tweet, Stumble, Digg , or something else, you’re doing something wrong. “Your content should be instantly identifiable no matter where it ends up on the web,” says Ben Bator, co-founder of Texts From Last Night. “Humorous material is meant to be shared, so don’t limit the possibilities.” My personal favorite sharing control is the “share by e-mail” function found on ICanHasCheezburger. Remember how crazy cat ladies love that stuff? Guess what else they love to do – that’s right, forward everyone they know those pictures, so why not have that right on the site? Brilliant, though unfortunate for the rest of us. If you’re using a blogging service like WordPress or Tumblr, make sure that that sharing via third party services (Facebook , Twitter ) as well as controls like AddThis are enabled. At the launch of your project, you should also make sure that there are appropriate avenues for discussion, sharing, and fandom on third party services. Get yourself a Facebook Fan page, add certain pages to Stumble Upon, register appropriate Twitter handles, and popularize the hashtags you want to use. Being in control of your content outside of your site is important.
6. Protect Your Content
What comes along with the freedom on the Internet is the risk of idea leakage. People may even steal your ideas, modify them a little and post them elsewhere as if they are theirs. Sometimes you need to get help from lawyers and deter those nasty people from doing so.
7. Satisfy The Audience
The only reason Chuck Norris Facts exist is because I asked the visitors to my site what they wanted to see. I had started my site with “Vin Diesel Facts” and after getting a few million hits and some mentions in the press, I put up a poll to ask visitors who the site should include next. The rest is history. Don’t necessarily crowdsource your major decisions to your users since you probably don’t know or trust them that well, but it’s just as much their site as it is yours to a certain extent. Users/members ought to have a say in things, if only to let you know if you’re going in the right direction.
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