with a successful viral campaign you could get tons of quality backlinks in short time. its very difficult to come up with a good viral campaign.
I'm always thinking of unique things that I could do to make people notice my employer's business. I look at what other people have done and think, "what could I do to achieve similar results". I thought about making a video for Youtube that might make people laugh and want to share it to their friends and then their friends and so on. I just don't have any good ideas but would love to see how far a video clip could go with a brand at the beginning or end.
You mean create an advert? People have been doing this for years. It does work thats why worldwide corporations use it!
Viral marketing is somewhat over-rated. Out of the tens of thousands of ideas people come up with every month only a handful truly become viral. Niche marketing is much more effective!
If you can get something to go viral... it will bring traffic not only in the short term but for long term. When something goes viral people link to it and I've seen some viral content get anywhere from a couple hundred links to more than 1500 links.
Viral marketing is the most successful trend in online marketing and advertising. It gives away products and services. Also provides for effortless transfer to others and scales easily from small to large. The viral marketing utilizes existing communication networks. It takes benefits of others resources.