One of the first things most people do with their new blogs is install some sort of plugin to help facilitate the sharing of their posts. Thoughts of Twitter obsessively retweeting your content begin to float through your mind and let’s not forget the ridiculous amount of traffic you’re gonna be getting from Digg.

The truth is you will probably get little to no activity on your posts regardless of what plugins you are using, especially if you are the new blog on the block.

So How Do I Go Viral?

Well, you don’t just “go viral” as there are a bunch of factors that go into the viral potential of content. However, there are certain things you can do to your blog that can help encourage the sharing of your content. I personally made these changes to my blog about 2 months ago and watched my number of Diggs, Stumbles and ReTweets double if not triple.

They key is to create actionable social bookmarking and sharing buttons.

What does that mean? Focus on the top social media sites that drive traffic to your site and use the official widgets or buttons of that site if the