{"id":4792,"date":"2015-11-02T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.us.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&p=4792"},"modified":"2015-11-04T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T22:50:25","slug":"what-i-learned-when-my-blog-post-went-viral","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/session\/what-i-learned-when-my-blog-post-went-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned When My Blog Post Went Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2012 and again in 2013, I hit the blogger’s dream — one of my posts<\/a> went viral. As of today, it has over a million views and has been shared on Facebook 450,000 times:<\/p>\n

During the two separate instances when it went viral, I learned a bunch of lessons on both blogging and hosting a website. The goal of the talk is to share these lessons and help bloggers be prepared should they go viral, too:<\/p>\n

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  1. My hosting plan left my site woefully unprepared for spikes in traffic. What were some things I could have done to prepare?<\/li>\n
  2. My ad network shut down my account for alleged fraud, and I lost potentially thousands of dollars worth of ad revenue. Was there anything I could have done differently?<\/li>\n
  3. Tons of sites started republishing the post without permission. I even had to deal with a blatant case of plagiarism, when someone not only republished my post in its entirety, but changed the title and author. What was the best way to handle this?<\/li>\n
  4. I was also contacted by a few reputable sites (USA Today, HuffPost) to republish the post in its entirety. Was it worth it to grant permission?<\/li>\n
  5. Of course, the virility of the post drew the requisite trolls. What were some of the productive — and unproductive — ways to deal with them?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In 2012 and again in 2013, I hit the blogger’s dream — one of my posts went viral. As of today, it has over a million views and has been shared on Facebook 450,000 times: During the two separate instances … Continue reading What I Learned When My Blog Post Went Viral<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14539615,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1449270000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[4602],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[643127],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-4792","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-c"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6wOEx-1fi","session_date_time":{"date":"December 4, 2015","time":"6:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"4602","slug":"dennis-hong","name":"Dennis Hong","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/dennis-hong\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/4792\/revisions\/5078"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4602"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/dennishhong"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}