请问英语时态是什么意思？_百度知道
请问英语时态是什么意思？
刚入门所以不清楚这些 请大家仔细的讲解下 谢谢了
所谓的时态 就是过去 现在 将来举例
比如 英语单词is
过去时态就要用was 现在时态就用is将来就用 will be其实 就是同一个单词 但是 表示过去的意思就要用这个形式 表示将来的意思就要用那个形式
just now,be going to 现在进行时 be doing 过去进行时 was/were doing 将来进行时 will be doing 现在完成时 have/has done 过去完成时 had done 现在完成进行时 have&#47。 He seems to know this. I h until, until, up to now。其构成. He seems twere,did 一般将来时 will. 4) 完成进行时, since, so far, ever, never, recently。 b. 动作完成：表示将来某一时或另一个将来的动作之前, yet, till /ARE&#47, last week，…ago，说话时动作未必正在进行. = I hope that I'll see you again,do/does 一般过去时 was&#47. 表示现在( 指说话人说话时) 正在发生的事情;m sorry to have given you so much trouble，或无时间状语。 一般过去时的时间状语: HAVE BEEN DOING 以前的笔记起作用了~~~~~哈` 一般现在时 be, grow. 2) 概念 a. 状态完成：表示某事继续到将来某一时为止一直有的状态，强调过去的事情对现在的影响：get；现在完成时为过去发生的，只处于写作的状态。) She is learning piano under Mr. 3) 进行时,this April, now, in past years, always, 过去完成时 1） 概念;WILL DO 过去将来时~SHOULD/WOULD DO 现在进行时~BE(AM/WERE DOING 将来进行时~SHALL/WILL BE DOING 现在完成时~HAS/HAVE DONE 过去完成时~HAD DONE 现在完成进行时~HAS/IS) DOING 过去进行时~WAS&#47现在时：一般现在时表示的动词. Smith. c。 You are always changing your mind. 一般现在时~DO 一般过去时~DONE 一般将来时~SHALL&#47. 与always, constantly, forever 等词连用，表示反复发生的动作或持续存在的状态，往往带有说话人的主观色彩： 表示动作正在进行, in October：表示过去的过去 ----|-------|-----|----&其构成是had +过去分词构成。 将来完成时 构成will &#47, just. (说话时并未在写, run, go, begin等。 The leaves are turning red. It's getting warmer and warmer. d, turn： She is known to have been wreaking on the problem for many years 现在完成时用来表示之前已发生或完成的动作或状 态，其结果的确和现在有联系。动作或状态发生在过去 但它的影响现在还存在；也可表示持续到现在的动作或 状态. Green is w be going to do sth. b. 习惯进行：表示长期的或重复性的动作，已经完成的动作或一获得的经验。 They will have been married for 20 years by then. You will have reached Shanghai by this time tomorrow. 现在进行时 现在进行时的基本用法： a，before, already, become, once. 表示渐变的动词有。 Mr： have (has) +过去分词 过去时表示过去某时发生的动作或单纯叙述过去的事情，强调动作，与谓语动词表示的动作同时发生。 He seems to be eating something, in1980。 We are waiting for you, in past years, always, 不确定的时间状语till &#47, 具体的时间状语 共同的时间状语: this morning, tonight，lately 现在完成时的时间状语 for，强调的是影响。 2）过去时常与具体的时间状语连用，而现在完成时通常与模糊的时间状语连用. 我希望再见到你。 2) 完成时：表示的动作发生在谓语动词表示的动作之前。 I&#39，有时与谓语动词表示的动作同时发生，有时发生在谓语动词的动作之后
汉语的时态大多是通过副词来表达的，而英语的时态是靠动词的变化和时间状语来表达的。英语中的时态共有十六种，但是常考的或较常用的只有9种，而且重点测试完成时态。 要掌握英语的时态和语态，必须掌握好英语中的助动词(do, be, have)和时间状语这两个核心问题。 　　1、一般现在时 　　主要用来表示人、事物的现在状况和特点；表示经常或习惯性的动作，句子中常有often, always, from time to time 等时间状语； 表示客观规律和永恒真理等。 　　 He usually goes to work at 7 o’clock every morning. 　　 She has a brother who lives in New York. 　　 The earth goes around the sun. 　　Guangzhou is situated in the south of China. 　　考点一：表示永恒的真理，即使出现在过去的语境中，仍用一般现在时。如： 　　I learned that the earth goes around the sun when I was in primary school. 　　考点二：在时间和条件状语从句中，代替一般将来时；常用的引导词有： 　　时间：when, until, after, before, as soon as, once, the moment/the minute, 条件：if, unless, provided. 　　If he accepts the job, he will get more money soon. 　　考点三：在make sure (certain), see to it, mind, care, matter ＋宾语从句， 从句用一般现在时代替一般将来时。 　　 So long as he works hard, I don’t mind when he finishes the experiment. 　　 只要他努力工作， 我不介意他什么时候做完试验。 　　考点四：在the more… the more … (越……越……) 句型中, 若主句是一般将来时, 从句通常用一般现在时。 　　 The harder you study, the better results you will get. 　　2、现在进行时 　　 表说话时或目前一段时间内正在进行的活动：或表感情色彩，加强语气。与频率副词，如always，constantly，continually，again等连用表示说话人的某种感情色彩（赞叹、厌烦、埋怨等）。 　　 We are having English class. 　　The house is being built these days. 　　 The little boy is always making trouble. 　　考点一：在时间状语或条件状语从句中表示将来正在进行的动作。 　　Look out when you are crossing the street. 　　Don't wake him up if he is still sleeping at 7 tomorrow morning. 　　考点二： 表示在最近按计划或安排要进行的动作（这时多有表示将来的时间状语）。 　　Marry is leaving on Friday. 　　3、现在完成时 　　表示动作发生在过去，完成在过去，但强调与现在情况仍有联系，其结果或影响仍存在。现在完成时有一些标志性的时间状语： 　　考点一：for + 时间段；since + 时间点 　　They have lived in Beijing for five years. 　　 They have lived in Beijing since 1995. 　　I have learned English for ten years. 　　考点二：常见的不确定的时间状语： recently, just, already, yet, so far, these days, 　　 Has it stopped raining yet ? 　　考点三：在表示“最近几世纪/ 年/ 月以来……”时间状语中，谓语动词用现在完成时。 　　in the past few years/months/weeks/days；ove during t for the last few centuries, throughout history 等 　　 　　考点四：表示“第几次做某事，”或在 “It is the best (worst, most interesting ) +名词 ＋that” 后面跟现在完成时。 　　This is my first time that I have visited China. 　　This is the most interesting film I have ever seen. 　　That is the only book that he has written. 　　4．一般过去时 　　表在过去某个特定时间发生且完成的动作，或过去习惯性动作，不强调对现在的影响，只说明过去。常跟明确的过去时间连用，如： in 1945, when, 注意： 　　考点一：used to + do，表示过去经常但现在已不再维持的习惯动作。to为不定式，后接动词原形。 　　be/become/get used to + doing，表示习惯于 　　He used to smoke a lot. 　　He has got used to getting up early. 　　考点二：在时间和条件状语从句中，代替过去将来时。 　　He promised to buy me a computer if he got a raise 　　5. 过去进行时 　　表示过去某个时间点或某段时间内正在发生的动作。 　　 The boy was doing his homework when his father came back from work. 　　 He was taking a walk leisurely by the lake when he heard someone shouted for help. 　　What were you doing at nine last night? 　　The radio was being repaired when you called me. 　　6. 过去完成时 　　表示过去某个时间之前已经完成的动作，即过去完成时的动作发生在“过去的过去”，句中有明显的参照动作或时间状语，这种时态从来不孤立使用 ( before, after, by, up till ) 　　 There had been 25 parks in our city up till 2000. 　　 By the end of last term we had finished the book. 　　 They finished earlier than we had expected. 　　考点一：用于hardly/scarcely... no sooner ...than 句型中，主句用过去完成时，从句用一般过去时。 　　I had hardly finished my work when he came to see me. 　　I had no sooner got into the room than it began to snow. 　　No sooner had I arrived home than the telephone rang. （注意主谓倒装） 　　考点二：表示“第几次做某事”，主句用过去时，从句用过去完成时。 　　That was the second time that she had seen her grandfather. 　　It was 3 years since we had parted。 　　考点三：动词hope, expect, think, intend, mean, want, suppose, plan 用过去完成时，表示未实现的愿望、打算和意图。 　　I had hoped that I could do the job. 　　I had intended to see you but I was too busy. 回答人的补充
20:03 7. 一般将来时 　　表在将来某个时间会发生的动作或情况。常和tomorrow, next year, in 2008等表示将来的时间状语连用，其表现形式多达5种。 　　Beijing will host the 29th Olympic Games in 2008. 　　考点一：一般将来时总是用在一些时间状语从句或条件状语从句的主句中： 　　We will begin our class as soon as the teacher comes. 　　（主句用一般将来时，从句中一定要用一般现在时替代一般将来时。） 　　考点二：某些表示短暂性动作的动词如arrive, come, go, leave, start等，用现在进行时形式表示将来。 　　I am leaving for Beijing tomorrow. 　　考点三：“祈使句 + and/or + 句子”，这种结构中and后面的句子谓语用一般将来时。 　　Use your head and you will find a way. 　　考点四：“am (is, are) going to + 动词原形”，表示打算要做的事或可能要发生的事。 　　“am (is, are) about to + 动词原形”表示按照预定计划或打算准备着手进行的动作。 　　“am (is, are) to + 动词原形”表示必须、必然或计划将要做的事。 　　They are to be married in this May. 　　8、将来进行时 　　表将来某个时间正在发生的动作，或按计划一定会发生的事情。 　　I’ll be doing my homework this time tomorrow. 明天这会我正在写作业。 　　The President will be meeting the foreign delegation at the airport. 　　9、将来完成时 　　表在将来某时刻之前业已完成的事情，时间状语非常明显。 　　考点一：常用的时间状语一般用by+将来的时间。如：by the end of this year, by 8 o’clock this evening, by March next year以及由by the time…, before或when等引导的副词从句。 　　By the end of next month, he will have traveled 1000 miles on foot. 　　By the time you reach the station, the train will have left. 　　By next Tuesday, I will have got ready for the exams. 　　考点二：在时间和条件状语从句中，将来完成时则由现在完成时表示。 　　The children will do their homework the moment they have arrived back from school. 　　10. 动词的语态 　　一般用于强调受者， 做题时谓语动词不再有名词或宾语。动词的语态一般不单独考，而是和时态、语气和非谓语动词一起考，只是需要注意以下考点。 　　考点一：不能用于被动语态的动词和词组 　　 come true, consist of, take place, happen, become, rise, occur, belong, break out, appear, arrive, die, fall, last, exist, fail, succeed 　　 It took place before liberation. 　　考点二：下列动词的主动语态表示被动意义, 而且常与well, quite, easily, badly等副词连用。 　　lock ( 锁 ) ; wash ( 洗 ); sell ( 卖 ); read ( 读 ); wear ( 穿 ); blame (责备)；ride (乘坐)； write ( 写 )； 　　 Glass breaks easily. 玻璃容易破碎。 　　 The car rides smoothly. 这车走起来很稳。 　　The case locks easily. 这箱子很好锁。 　　The book sells well. 这本书很畅销。 　　考点三：一些常用经典被动句型： 　　 It is said…, It is reported…, It is widely believed…， It is expected…, It is estimated…, 　　 这些句子一般翻译为“据说……”，“人们认为……”， 　　而 “以前人们认为……” 则应该说：It was believed…, It was thought…
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How to Create Viral Content: 10 Insights from 100 Million Articles
A while back, someone sent me a link to the BuzzSumo website. With a name that includes “Sumo,” I knew it was love at first sight.
And the love has lasted. Years later, I still use BuzzSumo regularly. It’s a gold mine of data for analyzing content’s popularity, social growth, and more.
#chaching.
Because I’m so impressed with the platform, I reached out to awesome people at BuzzSumo to let us go behind-the-scenes for the main ingredients to insanely shareable content are.
You’ve probably seen lame articles on the web like “10 ways to go viral” with super basic tips for creating shareable content. But his post crushes those posts, because it’s backed by pure data. (Who doesn’t love some fancy images and charts?)
Use this knowledge with caution. And without keeping you waiting anymore, take it away Sumo brothers…
Here at , we've analyzed the social share counts of over 100 million articles in the past 8 months. So it’s fair to say we have a pretty good idea of what gets shared the most.
There has always been some nagging questions we’ve wanted to answer. So we came up with this set of questions, hoping to challenge popular assumptions on how to make your content go viral:
What types of emotions did the most popular articles invoke?
What formats of posts typically receive a lot of shares? (lists? infographics?)
Did readers love to share short form or long form content? What's the ideal length to maximize readability?
Does trust play a major role on whether someone will share an article?
What's the effect of having just one image in a post vs no images?
What's the effect of having just one influencer sharing your article vs 0?
How do we make people share our post days and even weeks after it’s been published?
What’s the best day of the week to publish an article?
Of course, all these questions come with a giant warning...
The prerequisite to getting your content shared widely is to write compelling content.
There's just no replacement for that. No gimmicks, tricks, or sleight-of-hand to trick users into making crappy clickbait go viral.
But once you’ve written a well-crafted, useful article, how do you make sure it sticks out among all the noise?
For those of you with content you’re proud of, I’m excited to introduce you to a formula you can use to increase the chances your content goes viral.
Here are 10 ingredients that will help increase the shareability of your content:
1) Long form content gets more social shares than short form content.
We've all heard stats on how more people are consuming content through their mobile devices. This means you should write short, bite-sized content to satisfy your readers's short attention spans, right?
We analyzed the top 10% most shared articles to see if this was the case... and according to our research, the opposite is true.
On average, long-form content actually gets shared more than short-form content.
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If you look at the chart above, you'll notice something: the longer the content, the more shares it gets.
Specifically, 3,000-10,000 word content gets the most average shares (8,859).
Not surprisingly, there was a lot more short-form content being written — which caused a lot more noise. How much more? There was 16 times more content with less than 1,000 words than there was content with 2,000+ words.
This tells us that most people just aren’t willing to create in-depth, well-researched articles packed with insights. They just don’t want to put in the time and effort.
Which means there's a lot more opportunity for you to create great content and stand out from the pack. Less competition!
Our findings were consistent with
The fact is that, yes people love to share LOL cat pics and funny memes, but they also want to share intellectually challenging, long-form content. Since the web is inundated with short-form content and gifs, you're better off spending your time writing that one epic piece of content that has less competition instead of writing lots of short, fluffy pieces.
As a result, it’s easier to stand out.
Key Ingredient: Aim for at least 2,000 words per post.
2) Having at least one image in your post leads to more Facebook shares
We’ve all hear experts say compelling images increases engagement. But that only applies to social posts on Facebook, right? What about actual written content?
This time, we analyzed all the articles we’ve crawled at BuzzSumo to compare the average number of Facebook shares of content with:
1 or more images
Here's what we found:
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In other words, on average, twice as many people share posts with at least one image in the post.
This underscores the importance of having visual elements mixed in with bodies of text.
(Keep in mind though, we didn’t do any analysis on how visually appealing these images were, just the presence of an image.)
What about social meta tags for Facebook?
We were curious whether publishers that implemented these tags — specifically the preview image received more Facebook shares — on average. Again, we’d expected this to be true, but we wanted to see how dramatic this difference was.
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(By the way, for those not familiar, if you wanted Facebook to show a specific preview image, you’d need to implement this meta tag in the &head& section of your article: &meta property=”og:image” content=”http://example.com/image.jpg” /&)
The results: articles that implemented the Facebook preview image meta tag had more than three times as many Facebook shares and likes compared to those that didn’t.
Key Ingredient: Implement those social meta tags and add a photo to EVERY post! The images determine what potential readers see before they even visit your article.
3) Having at least one image in your post leads to more Twitter shares
Perhaps unsurprisingly, based on the last point’s results (Facebook social image matters) is that Twitter is the same.
Posts with the Open Graph image tag did substantially better on Twitter than those without:
Yo, share this image!
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Key Ingredient: Adding images to your content and posts will help it get shared on Twitter as well as Facebook!
4) Invoke awe, laughter, or amusement. Appeal to people’s narcissistic side
We analyzed the top 10,000 most shared articles across the web, and mapped each one to an emotion, like joy, sadness, anger, amusement, laughter, etc.
Here's the breakdown of emotions:
Why not share this pie chart with your readers?
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The most popular 3 emotions invoked were:
Laughter (17%)
Amusement (15%).
Conversely, the least popular emotions were sadness and anger (which made up 7%).
(Note the difference between laughter and amusement were blurry at times, but we define amusement as being entertained, and not laugh out loud funny.)
Why do people share things that inspire awe, laughter and amusement? We don't have a scientific reason for it, but the New York Times did a research study a few years back.
They interviewed 2,500 people to determine the primary reasons they shared a story online. These were the main reasons they found:
Bring valuable and entertaining content to one another
Define themselves to others (give people a better sense of who they are)
Grow and nourish relationships (stay connected with others)
Self-fulfillment (to feel more involved in the world)
Get the word out on causes they care about
Awe-inspiring and funny content definitely fulfill the first three reasons. Sharing entertaining content brings value to our friends, shows others we have great taste, and spurs conversation and reactions.
People also share for selfish reasons, like narcissism.
8 of the top 10 most shared articles in the past 8 months were quizzes (7 from BuzzFeed, 1 from New York Times). Why quizzes?
When we share our quiz results, it fuels our identity and ego. Others will learn more about who we are, what we value, and our tastes. Think about the last time you shared a quiz. Do you really think 90% of your Facebook friends actually care? No, but the few who do will know what a cool person you are.
Similarly, sharing an opinionated piece about a hot issue, such as gay marriage lets others know where we stand on the issue.
For reference, here were 6 of the 10 most shared articles in the past 8 months, with Oprah's “” quiz in the #1 spot.
Bottom-line is quizzes work. People share content which helps them identify who they are. Being controversial may divide the crowds, but those who agree with you are more likely to share your content.
Key Ingredients: Be entertaining... Nobody wants to bore their friends.
5) People love to share lists and infographics
We were curious which content formats people were more likely to share. So we classified each article in our analysis into six types:
Infographics
How-to articles
"What" posts (e.g. articles whose title started with the word “What”)
"Why" posts (e.g. articles that tried to answer a “Why” question)
Here's what we discovered:
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(Note: All Content is the average shares of all content we analyzed, and is meant to be a benchmark.)
List posts and infographics receive more average shares than other content types.
More surprisingly, how-to posts and videos receive less shares than the average post.
There are many possible reasons why list posts get shared the most. Some possible reasons: Lists give the readers an exact idea on what to expect (i.e. 10 ways to do something), they’re also skim-friendly, and easy to read on the run.
Similarly, infographics make it easier to digest a huge amount of information in a visually appealing way.
Either way, make sure your content has plenty of images or charts, so readers aren’t intimidated by so much text.
Key ingredient: If you’re writing long-form content, remember to keep it easier to scan, and not a wall of text. Structuring it as a list post is a simple way to do that, but if you’re not writing a list, make sure you write easy to read paragraphs, and use sub-headlines and bullet points.
6) 10 is the magic number for lists
Let's cut right to it: 10 item lists on average received the most social shares with 10,621 social shares.
In fact, lists of 10 had four times as many social shares on average than the second most popular list number (23). The other runner-ups are 16 and 24.
Key Ingredient: If you’re writing a list post, try to round it up or down to 10 items.
7) People tend to share content that looks trustworthy
Does trust play a role with content sharing?
To answer, we compared the average number of social shares for two types of content:
No byline or bio attached to the content
Articles with a byline or bio
The results show the importance of a byline.
Byline, and implied trust, play a major role on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+.
You know you wanna share this chart with your content friends
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(Note: The numbers are normalized below to 100, as the absolute numbers aren’t important, just the difference.)
However, trust doesn’t seem to make a difference in Facebook.
Articles with a byline or bio have 0.10% more social shares than those without a byline/bio. In contrast, in Google+, articles with a byline/bio have 42% more social shares than those without a byline or bio.
Byline trust not playing a major role on Facebook suggests users share different types of content in each social network. We usually sharing entertaining, funny content on Facebook with our close friends.
But on Twitter, Linkedin, and Google+, most of our followers are people we are associated with professionally. Since our “persona” matters more on these platforms, most people prefer to share content from a trustworthy source to build our credibility.
Key Ingredient: Remember to have a byline at the beginning of every post, and a bio at the end to make your content look trustworthy.
8) Getting one extra influencer to share your article has a multiplier effect.
Not all sharers are created equal.
After all, if Oprah, Tim Ferriss, or Noah shared your article with their followers, it'll generate more retweets/likes than if a random person shared it.
But can we quantify that effect?
It might seem impossible to convince Oprah, Tim Ferriss, or Noah to retweet your content (and trust us, we’ve tried. It’s pretty damn hard!) — but there's still a solution.
What if someone just a teeny-tiny bit more influential than the average person shares your content? How many more additional people will share as a result? Can we predict that?
We compared the number of social shares of articles that had 0 influential sharers to content that had one or more influential sharers.
To formalize things, we define “influencer” as someone whose tweets are retweeted on average two times.
For instance, if you tweeted 100 times total, and 200 people retweeted those tweets, the average retweets would be 2.0 (This sounds like a low number, but for comparison, someone like )
Here's what we found:
One influential person sharing your content resulted in 31.8% more social shares
Three influential people sharing your content doubled the number of social shares
Five influential people sharing your content almost quadrupled the total number of social shares for an article
Hey, you. Put this image on your blog, will ya?
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That’s great, but how do you get more influencers to share your content without relying on blind luck?
One way is to work backwards. Instead of writing your content first, find a piece of content that is similar to the one you want to produce, and see all the influencers that shared it. Then start building a relationship with those influencers before you launch your post.
For instance, let’s say you want to write an article about “conversion optimization”. With BuzzSumo, you can find the most shared articles on conversion optimization in the past 6 months using the
You’ll see a list of results like below:
The first result above has 2,039 shares from . You can see who shared this article by clicking on the “View Sharers” button. There you’ll see a list of people who shared this article on Twitter, sorted by average retweets. In other words, it’s sorted by their influence level.
There are a couple of other useful fields you’ll see for each sharer, including the number of followers they have, and their reply ratio (% of tweets that are direct replies to someone). While number of followers is a more common metric people use to measure influence, it can easily be faked. Average retweets are very hard to fake (or not as likely).
To find a list of influencers, I recommend you search for more than one article to compile a list of influencers. Once you have this list, you can reach out to each of them and ask:
For a quote you’ll use in your article
Questions to get feedback on an idea
Link to something they wrote about your topic.
People love to share things they’ve been involved in, even if they weren’t involved in it directly. If you can incorporate these influencers into your article, they’ll be more likely to share your article with their own followers.
Interviewing people can also be a great way to get them involved.
At BuzzSumo, our most shared blog post had over 500+ shares.
and everyone of those interviewees shared their post with their audience.
Here’s a screenshot of a tweet we sent asking people if they’d like to be interviewed. Most of the responses were very positive.
Key Ingredient: Incorporate and ask influential people into your content to significantly increase your sharing.
(Note: Remember, influential people have no obligation to share your content, don’t be too pushy in getting them to do so for you. Relationship ALWAYS comes first.)
9) Repromote your old content on a regular basis.
The next thing we analyzed is the % drop in social shares after you’ve published your post for 3 days. Most people will share your post in the first few days, and then those shares will taper off, but by how much?
The result was rather depressing. After three days, on all social networks, the number of shares dropped at least 96% for the next four days. Facebook shares drop the most, and Google+ and Pinterest drop the least:
Facebook: 98.9% decrease
Twitter: 97.4% decrease
LinkedIn: 97.34% decrease
Google+: 96.7% decrease
Pinterest: 96.7% decrease
After the first week, the number of shares for the next three weeks drops at least 86%. Twitter shares drop the most, and Linkedin shares drop the least.
Twitter: 92.1% decrease
Google+: 90% decrease
Facebook: 89% decrease
Pinterest: 86% decrease
LinkedIn: 82% decrease
This is inevitable, right?
Well, we decided to analyze the anomalies. We dug into the articles which actually had more social shares after a week had passed, and analyzed what they did.
One of those articles was
which only garnered 23 Facebook shares after a week. However, after a month, it had a total of 181 shares — an increase of 686% (!!!).
After doing some digging up, we saw the reason why: they repromoted that post 11 days on Facebook after it was published:
We don’t have any hard data on the ideal waiting period before repromoting content. Our hunch, however, says about a week.
Here, Evernote published their piece on a Monday, and promoted it on a Friday the next week. A solid strategy would be to promote pieces you write on Friday and weekends on a more popular day like Monday a week later. This will ensure all your posts get the same amount of exposure.
Of course, a prerequisite of this is to write evergreen content, since it can be shared and repromoted anytime after you’ve published it.
But what if your old posts aren’t evergreen?
There’s still a way to promote old posts if it ties into an upcoming event. For example, we found
(a social media marketing conference) that had 72 twitter shares after a week, but 487 whopping Twitter shares after a month. What was their secret?
The infographic was published initially on March 10th, and then shared again on Twitter March 28th, the day of the conference. This timely share dramatically increased the number of Twitter reteweets and shares.
Key Ingredient: Don’t let your content be a 1-hit wonder! Repromote your old posts at least a week after it’s been published. Alternatively, find old content that ties into an upcoming event/holiday, and repromote that the day of the event.
10) The best day overall to publish content for social shares is Tuesday
The day of the week you publish your content can have a big effect on how much it's shared. Take a look at the chart below, which shows the number total shares by day of week for all content we analyzed:
If you love tacos, you'll put this image on your blog, website, or web forum
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You can see more content is shared during the week, with the start of each week having the highest volume of shares.
Generally content gets the most shares on Tuesday or Monday, depending on the social network:
Best Day Overall: Tuesday
Best Day For Facebook: Tuesday
Best Day for Google+: Tuesday
Best Day for Twitter: Tuesday
Best Day for Linkedin: Monday
Best Day for Pinterest: Monday
Key Ingredient: Publish and share your content on Monday or Tuesday to get more shares. .
Conclusion
To summarize, here are the 10 data-driven insights you should be aware of when creating highly shareable content:
Long-form content has less competition — and gets more shares on average
Use images on Facebook
Use images on Twitter
Inspire awe, laughter, or amusement
List posts and infographics are more likely to be shared. If you’re writing a long form article, make sure it’s easy to skim
10 is the magic number of lists (see what we’re doing here?)
Make sure your article inspires trust
Reach out to influencers before you write your content... and after to get it shared
Write evergreen content and promote your articles regularly after it’s been published.
Tuesday is the best day to publish and promote content
Of course, some things do depend on your niche.
If you really want to see what content resonates for your target audience, I recommend doing a
on your topic/industry, and see what types of posts get the most social shares.
(You can even do a search for your competitor’s domain, to see what types of content gets shared the most for your competitor.)
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great post
I can't believe the amount of writers and supposed SEO gurus who are actually useless
Why Content Goes Viral: What Analyzing 100 Million Articles Taught Us.
- The latest addition to my weekly read!
I've been trying to find ways to get more traffic to my WordPress blog, Youngfiction21, and my Medium, Alex Chavers. It is pretty difficult starting out, but I believe this article gives a lot of good points. I actually did not know that longer articles generate the most "viral" content. I just assumed people skip by that kind of stuff when they see it. Anyway, I'll have to remember these tips. Some I've gotten down, while others I'm still working on. Thanks a lot!
Had so much trouble with our previous SEO company,
I have been researching it in my spare time and next
time we are going to employ temp staff to sort it
Bookmarked your blog, should help me keep up with regular posts!
Thanks very nice guidance for everyone. I want add buzz sumo in my site as a share button.
Hi! We have just launched a blog about activities from our everyday lives in the Arctic. It is great to be able to blog and chat with people around the world even when we live in sparsely populated parts of the world. Our new blog we have chosen to call for Wealth and Work in the Arctic - An Northern Dimension. We have very much benefit from your tips to promote our blog. Thank you and welcome to visit, comment and share our blog too.
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Hi Noah Kagan,
All mentioned techniques are fruitful, but therefore I am a little bit confused regarding emotion in content if my industry based on the dry industry then how can I add emotion factors in content. I think it's hard to show some emotions in a post.
I look forward to a positive response.
Rameez Ramzan
Hi Noah, Really very interesting sharing your thoughts about viral content marketing Ideas for new business.
Nice article, I was immediately interested in the tool / plugin you are using for the image embedding source code. Are you able to share what you use for that?
First off I want to say superb blog! I had a
quick question which I'd like to ask if you don't mind. I was interested to find out how you center
yourself and clear your thoughts prior to writing.
I have had trouble clearing my mind in getting my thoughts
out. I do take pleasure in writing but it just
seems like the first 10 to 15 minutes are usually
wasted just trying to figure out how to begin. Any suggestions or hints?
This is interesting, Noah! I'm trying to produce in-depth content and can definitely see the results.
If you can create content that makes people feel smart or funny by sharing your post, then you have winning content that can go viral. Now I need to figure out how to create content that make them feel smart or funny.
Pets are one that needs to care and should look after like
our baby. For taking perfect care for our pets and animal we should follow some techniques and also some
little matters which can have huge effect on our animal’s
life. In this site, we will easily have all sorts of news and info’s about cats, dogs, birds, monkeys,
horses, cows etc & etc. Not only info's but also well written and guided PDF for offline
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at anywhere
While I'm certain each practices will grow to be more and morre widespread, what I even have seen is that when individuals use electronic mail in place oof a letter, tthe standard of presentation typically declines.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about content marketing.
This is amazing. Thank you so much for the effort, Noah. I'm definitely going to use many references for posts I write about Visual Marketing. Great stuff!
I want to write some quality post which attracts most traffic not to be viral. Nor getting famous my site bengaliworld.wordpress.com just putting some comments or some spammy links on other blogsite. Please advise me.
Great, that settles it. If I can get 5k shares for & 1000 words and 9k shares for 3000 words, I'm going to make 3 posts, each & 1000 words and get approximately 15k shares. What a deal!
I would live to use summo me on my site but it does not support six, any ideas what I can use?
Huawei's effort is made all of the more spectacular because of a 10,000:1 contrast ratio.
I don't know if it's just me or if perhaps everybody
else experiencing issues with your site. It appears as
though some of the text within your content are running off the screen. Can someone else please comment and let me know if this is happening
to them as well? This could be a problem with my internet browser because
I've had this happen previously. Many thanks
Can I just say what a comfort to uncover someone that genuinely understands what they're discussing online.
You certainly know how to bring a problem to light and make it important.
A lot more people need to check this out and understand this
side of the story. It's surprising you are not more popular given that you most certainly have the
i need article
Awesome Post....This is going to help me SO, SO MUCH with the way I blog.
Jammed Packed with great info.
A very simple piece of advice I came across years ago when researching the writing of a book was:
BE CLEAR, BE CLEAR,
I am under the impression that viral makes Google rank your site higher in search results since more people are clicking on it, sharing it, etc. So even if like some folks have mentioned, viral does not necessarily equate to value, it most likely helps with site ranking, and that cant be a bad thing, right? Maybe I am wrong, but that is the impression I get. Thank you for this great read and in depth analysis. It was very informative and helpful!
Great web site. Plenty of helpful information here. I'm sending it to some friends ans also sharing in delicious.
And naturally, thank you to your effort!
thanks for the tips
Folks, viral is not always value and value is not always viral
But we all want our content to be viral, right? This post really helps us understand what to do once we've created a valuable content and now are clueless on how to promote it.
I like that the authors applied most of their own tips in this article. Hello, list of 10 items!
What I have found is that I am most likely to click on content that will benefit me in a very concrete way. For instance, if I'm starting a blog, then any blog post that specifically tells me how to grow my audience will catch my attention. You've mentioned that sharing content can be a narcissistic pursuit. This applies to article reflecting who you are, but also articles telling you how to become rich and famous! Is there any data backing that up, besides measuring "How to" articles?
This is very insightful. I never paid attention to re-promoting existing content but looking at all the data and detailed analysis makes me excited. Good job putting all this information together !
Oh my goodness.
I'm late to the party on this one but OKDork just became my new favourite site. This information is awesome. I'm currently writing a blog post on how to go viral which has paled into complete insignificance in the shadow of this majestic behemoth.
This is how it should be done. I'm in awe.
I am surprised that a posts that inspire awe emotion is one of top three posts that will go viral. A lot of time when I browse through my facebook, I saw many of my friends share stuff that invoke laughter and awe. I also received a lot of posts that invoke anger especially when it is posts related to politics. It just funny, politic posts that shared seldom invoke positive emotion(just realized it).......
From my experience, I think posts that invoke anger get pretty much engagement. When there is a "angry" posts, I see that people comment more than "laughter" post.
The 10 points you had mentioned in the post are interesting. These are the few tips in bringing a good amount of traffic if optimized perfectly. Thanks Noah.
I'm a personal trainer that runs a blog. I'd like to get out of the one on one stuff and just write blogs and do videos. With so many blogs and trainers out there I'm wondering how I can stand out besides my humor and great advice.
Number 10 is fascinating.
The fact that some social networks are Mondays and others are Tuesday is really interesting.
LinkedIn I imagine is because people are back at work Monday morning and on LinkedIn. Pinterest however surprises me.
Maybe its unemployed people killing time.
Really fascinating and great stuff you have here Noah.
This saves countless time trying to split test this stuff ourselves.
Thank you.
This was crazy good.
I was especially happy to hear about the longer content being key.
Although numerically it is important, however if you aren't concise and straight to the point, you will lose them.
I think the real factor for those being a winner is that to 'really' cover a topic, you need to go into detail.
And those articles that cover a topic well, are the ones that people feel need to be shared.
A big thank you for all the hard work behind this excellent check-list!
I am all about using other people's networks to get the word out about my business and personal brand. I am an Instagrammer and Redditor, eclectic visual based communities. If I even THINK I will use their product in the near future, I'll follow them, like, comment, etc. I'm engaged. I will use their products in artistic projects and tag them with the result. Effective! They love it, share it, I get to crack my preverbial creative knuckles, and my influence gets a little bit bigger. #winning
Incumbents are too entrenched, too insulated from voter wrath.
We want jobs, world-class education, and healthcare that doesn't have to check out its shoulder
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Extremely valuable points for any serious online entrepreneur/blogger, thanks for sharing. I have been a consistent user and now a huge fan of SumoMe apps and BuzzSumo search - with these I've been able to get valuable insights into the content I publish on my blogs.
Great stuff!
".... get them involved in your content in some way such as: -Asking them for a quote you’ll use in your article"
The power of getting influencers can't be overstated. I recently published a post on Social Media Today. In it, I had in-depth quotes from 9 (imagine if I'd had 10!) social media leaders. The post received nearly 1,000 LinkedIn shares, 400 Google+ shares, and 500 Tweets.
Most of those quoted in the article also shared it on their networks. In addition, their presence in the article made it more likely to be shared, for the reasons you note. It also furthers your relationship with those quoted, making future endeavors that much easier. You're also more likely to be quoted by others, either about the article, or new pieces.
Thanks for the excellent research!
Well this post definitely AWED me! (most popular emotion according to your article) Enough to leave a comment and share...Thanks for this Noah, wishing you more tasty tacos! ?
Interesting finding re: long-form content. I personally find that my audience also prefers longer posts, but was always told the opposite was true! Thanks for sharing.
It'd be helpful to see the comparative effect of each item you've listed. For example, under point 2, if the total population of posts is split 28% no image, 65% 1 or more image, then the fact that well-shared posts are in the same proportion doesn't necessarily imply any correlation between having an image and being well posted. If, however, the split in the population of posts is, say, 50%:50%, then having an image would appear to influence reposting. Conversely, if 5% of all posts have no image, then the opposite of what is implied by your graph would probably be true.
Point 1 shows this additional info required to complete the picture somewhat, but the rest of the points are missing the piece of the puzzle required to complete the inference.
One other point: correlation isn't cause. For example, having more influencers may cause or alternatively higher reposting could have been caused by a great post, which in turn caused more influencers to repost it (or whatever) which creates correlation between influencers and reposting.
We can see looking the shares of this content that if you share anything useful, people will like and share it. Informative and helpful information
That was a killer post bro. Most people are lazy as hell and being spoon fed that you do nothing and make a killing Online. Nothing can be further from the truth. Writing is an investment and will yield assets if you're smart on how you do it. Opt-ins are score keepers. Those emails will create residual income opportunities, but you still have to remember that people want kick-ass content, not watered down b.s. that has no centric value.
Awesome job Henley!
Remember... be a servant,
Cory Boatright
As per #4--- and include the word "Actually"!! What was that-- 4 out of the six titles that were most shared included the word "actually". Or are they playing on our insecurity of knowing "who" we actually are.
What Career Should You Actually Have?
What Kind Of Dog Are You?
What State Do You Actually Belong In?
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What City Should You Actually Live In?
Which Decade Do You Actually Belong In?
It's career-- place -- time.. What job, what location, city or state, and what time period... Your identity. What is your identity based on-- your job... where you live.. and then are you 80s, 90s, etc... hmmm brainstorming what to do with that.
We all need to be paying more attention to sharing...not just for traffic, not just for eyeballs or even for potential sales, but for search. I've been hearing a lot lately that Google's last round of SERPs changes were infrastructure related to decreasing the importance of backlinks and toward increasing ranking your pages and posts based on the amount your content is shared.
Great post. I ever wonder, why my post on Facebook get more viral, than post on my blog.
I agree, the point there is that.
Contents is nothing, if there is no social medias..
Since users are more likely active on social medias rather than blogs
Good info on a fascinating topic.
For further reading, I highly recommend "Contagious: Why Things Catch On" by Jonah Berger. He identifies 6 principles behind content going viral. Gives explanations & examples that cover thinks like social currency, which emotions prompt or PREVENT something from going viral, triggers, practical value.
One of my favorite examples from the book is about the photo gallery of the bankrupt, decaying city of Detroit. Which got more shares, the photos with homeless people, or ones of just buildings? Awe and anxiety/anger are more viral than sadness.
There will always be haters out there who dis trying to make something go viral. They miss the point that it's about making content more appealing by making it appeal to human nature. Understanding human nature is what it's about. I'm a tech geek. That's why I avidly read topics like this. I need help in getting messages across better.
There's so much good content out there that doesn't get the reach it deserves. Knowing how to make your content more shareable helps. This is relevant even for non-profits, governments and school boards of education who struggle with getting things funded, passed, supported.
This has to be one of the best articles I have read in a long, long time.
There is so much meat in this one.
I have been referring back to this one for days.
Thank you.
A book, The Tipping Point provides brilliant insights about the same topic! Worth a read!
One of the most comprehensive guides I've ever read on the topic! I'm a living example of all the points in the article. One of my posts went viral (mostly on FB) and so far has been shared more than 5.3K times. It is a long detailed article (more than 4000 words, many pictures, and useful for the readers.
The main key for me has been the influential bloggers/pages that promoted it on their social media, as well as using extracts of my comments in other articles.
The idea of keeping promoting the post weeks after its pubblication is also a good strategy!
I will defiantly share it ?
Very interesting stuff... especially the part about emotions. Did you guys come to any conclusions on video shares?
Good article
This is useful and insightful research. It's important to remember, though, that correlation is not causation. There seems to be an assumption through all of this (and the multitude of similar content that is being produce on this theme) that what occurred together in the past is more likely to occur together in the future. I'd say this is like trying to predict the stock market.
This research is a great addition and a must to any content manager.
I read every word and enjoyed it.
Thank you of doing this.
You can always trust a 'study' that doesn't disclose its methodology in any helpful way. How are you defining emotions? How are you parsing texts and assigning them to emotional responses? How is this anything but a mix of the same old new-media 'virality' bs with the word 'data' thrown in every paragraph or so?
The wealth of info in this post is baking my noodle! I will need to lie down and eat at least 10 tacos before I re read. Great stuff! Going to give a few a whirl post haste.
Henley and Noah, thanks for compiling this heap data. It really helped a lot especially the value of putting images as well as making Tuesday your favorite day!
It's amazing to get in touch with influencers, I had a chance to interview some influencers in my niche and noted them about the published article. And it have had done it. I got more shares in few days.
Interesting finding re: long-form content. I personally find that my audience also prefers longer posts, but was always told the opposite was true! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome post. Liked #6. I've had an article on draft for over a week on that ties in with that subject. I'll reference this post. Look forward to the next one!
This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time! Thank you for providing such useful and actionable information!
I'd just love to share this magnificient and useful piece of content with my French speaking readers. Is there any way I can get permission to translate that (with the right attribution, of course)?
Something which might work fantastically well: if you could somehow get your college professors to share your content, say, by producing something that's related to what they taught you...they could use you as a case study to their students and you'd score a .edu backlink!
Very instructive post with some really good strategies to keep in mind.
I am now going to download the PDF and refer to it all the time.
What a FANTASTIC post. Lots of useful information even for the education-focused sites I work on in my job. Thanks for the work!
Glad you found this useful, Chris!
And this article certainly practiced what its preaching:
Reason 1: Long form content gets more social shares than short form content. (I estimate 2,000-3,000 words for this article)
Reason 2&3: Has at least one image (dozens of images on this article)
Reason 4: I am at awe with this piece/article.
Reason 5: This article talks about a list.
Reason 6: There are 10 items on the list (magic 10!)
Reason 7: Buzzsumo seems to be credible source
Reason 8: Extra influencer? A blogger brought me here via facebook.
Reason 9: Not sure about this one...but buzzsumo may something like this before
Reason 10: The article was posted on April 21 - a monday but since I live here in the Philippines...several hours ahead, that makes it Tuesday for me ?
Great piece! Kudos!
True for America... Not true with South East Asia.
Do you have any data for content length and the inclusion of images increasing the likelihood of social sharing? I'm wondering whether shorter content with an image included can still generate social sharing?
Well, we analyzed 100 million articles, and found that longer content with images tend to garner more shares on average, than shorter content. Short form content can definitely still garner shares, it's just that there's so much of it published daily, and a low % of them get shared widely. But that's not the case for long-form content, we discovered.
One further tip is to look for the influencers already in your audience when trying to build relationships, they may be an easier sell as they already know and are interested in you. I am building a site to help find those influencers in your email list at , if anyone is interested in joining the beta drop me an email, robin at the domain above ?
This is what you call an in-depth article! Talk about pearls of wisdom, so called content kings, queens and princesses (I speak for myself) - this article is a fountain of knowledge, to be taken advantage of I would say.
Extermely interesting post. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting and quite a good read on Wednesday Morning. I usually run a manual search to curate people who share the content in same niche i.e for my seo blog I find out relevant people (normal and influencers) and try to engage them. Ultimately they all help me to promote my blog posts.
Sometimes I visit their blogs and comment on them like i did here and try to add value. There is no hard and fast formula to make your content viral so whatever works for you is the best for you!
Awesome post Henley and Noah - packed with great information. I suppose it's no coincidence that there are 10 points in here and that this post was also published on Tuesday. ?
I can attest to the power of list posts. Some bloggers never use them, but surprisingly they often outperform detailed how to guides and posts that I've written.
As a writer, I try to make all the stuff I write go viral. Your post has really opened my eyes to the necessity of having a CHECKLIST for all viral elements a blog post or article must have before I click the SUBMIT button. Thank you for your hard work and effort. You definitely made a BuzzSumo convert out of me!
Glad you enjoyed the insights here, Gene. Hope you find BuzzSumo helpful as well!
Looks like I have to post on Tuesdays! There's some great tips in here. Definitely going to implement some of this advice. Thanks.
This is an awesome article! This afternoon I'll be writing a blog post entitled "What career should you actually have?" lol ? I love to see statistics supporting the various theories floating around online.
This is very interesting. Is it possible to put a finer slice on the article length data? I suspect based on observation and my own behaviour that articles from 50-200 articles from 200-800 words are dead and articles over 800 words are meaty enough to get passed along. Can this be validated?
Wow! What an epic post, thank you for this. I've found some success being as Gary V coined it a "social DJ," using a combination of sharing other really good long form posts (like this) that are of value/interesting/funny and then adding in my own content as well. Absolutely going to keep all these tips in mind!
Brilliant post.
I, too, have seen amazing things by just getting a couple of influencers to retweet a post.
Nice brother!
What has worked really nice for me recently is to give people the 'steps' to solving their problem, but then giving away something that makes the whole process a lot easier.
Strategically this is given away by either email (as most people do), but depending on the objective I would throw in the 'pay with social media' function.
Here is an example of me using Pay with a Tweet:
(My apologies for link dropping, but it's the only way to show what I'm talking about for those that don't know) -
In the above piece I wrote a nice meaty piece (using Scrivener - thanks to Appsumo ? ) on how to build a target customer profile. I go a step further then by giving away the actual template for getting it done easier.
It's gotten really nice shares and solid spike in visitors. Got a few hundred unique visits from it and I didn't market this to any influencers at all. Just tweeted about it, shared it on Facebook and Google+ and it went from there.
The key is to make sure your content is quality and that it solves a problem otherwise you're not getting jack squat shared.
p.s - keep up the great posts!
Great tip! Sometimes you have to give people your secret sauce to build an audience.
If you make people feel and appear intelligent to their peers they are more inclined to share. Nice
That's the most useful tip I've ever heard ! Thanks ?
When repromoting an old post, I've found extracting a memorable line or quote instead of just the post title helps with the number of shares. And adding 'click to tweet' lines throughout also helps.
I find that very effective too, especially if I'm interviewing a bunch of people in the post.
Great research!
I have personally noticed that I get more shares on linkedin than on fb during the day probably since most of my target audience is on their work computer where fb but not linkedin, is blocked off.
I'm still trying to figure out what type of image (inspirational, career focused, funny) cube dwellers like to reshare.
When all else fails, just put up a Dilbert comic ?
Heh, Dilbert never grows old ?
A few people.
So, it may be a little labor intensive, but I'll put a post up somewhere (with a call to action, with a picture, using a lot of the suggestions here) AND THEN I make a handwritten list of 15 people.
These are people who I "think" have a community reach that would find the article/podcast/event that I'm sharing interesting. And then...I call them on the phone. I know, old school... I say something like:
"Hey, it's Jason. I just posted a podcast -
Indeed, that's very old school, but sometimes calling someone is the most effective way to reach them.
Viral = Value? What does virality matter if your buzzfeed post is complete garbage to simply drive ADD eyeballs to your website to increase your ad revenue?
You're right, it's not all about the eyeballs. However, it doesn't hurt to optimize your content so you can increase its reach.
Viral definitely doesn't equal value BUT it certainly doesn't hurt to get a lot of eyes on your content. Perhaps the post itself isn't necessarily value but if your blog is quality, when people come over, they will see what else you have to offer, and potentially convert. It's also great from a link building perspective.
Viral might not necessarily equal value. But value generally equals viral. Create a quality post and put it in the hands of the write people, there is no doubt that it'll be shared by many.
You also need the "right" grammar... not the *write* people... ?
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