The Secret Sauce for Blog Virality. Unexpected Insights from 5,000 Posts.

Recently we wrote about the top HR blogs that you should follow. All of the blogs we profiled in that post consistently publish great content, but some content is shared far greater than others. Psychologists, SEO and marketing experts have been studying virality and content sharing for years to understand what are the associated triggers that leads to virality. Why are some articles shared while others are ignored? What common traits are there between content from different blogs and news sources that goes viral?