Below are few points which will help you to set up your own website.

1) A Blog: Set up a blog website with no cost

There are many websites available online which will allow you to setup a blog for free using their own embedded software. In a matter of minutes, you can set up a website using one of these platforms. Do some homework and find out which website offers this type of service for free or with minimal charges.

2) A website with minimal content: A website with couple of paragraphs and content only

If your interest is to set up just a happy looking small website to begin with, there are many websites where you can type in content according to you and add graphics and so forth that are included within the website. You do not require any expertise in respect to HTML and the best thing is you can set up a website in very short period of time very easily. In your small website, there would be a problem wherein you’ll have more restrictions as to the format that you will be allowed to use and the content which you can include.

3) Domain: Buy a domain name for your website

Once you select a format or platform that you want to use and are ready with basic requirements for your blog website, you need to register a domain name at a place that offers domains for a very low price. Now you have total control over the content of your website and you can start building back-links to it. Knowing that any effort that you put into it will be benefiting you instead of someone else website.

So what is the secret? You are about to get a bit closer to the answer.
Top 7 Stumbleupon Self Improvement Articles

These are just 7 of the top posts on Stumbleupon in the Self Improvement niche. There are many more on the web, but I think the ones I listed should serve as enough of an example of viral blog posts.

1. What Are Your Eyes Giving Away?

What is it about:
Learning how to read people’s intentions by their eye-movements and expressions and the visual clues they give.

Why it is interesting:
Everybody wants to have the skill of being able to know someone’s intentions or feelings by looking in their eyes and reading their visual clues. It’s a source of power and seems like a really cool thing to be able to do. Just by reading the title and understanding the topic of the article, it makes me want to start reading it and find out what it is about.

Why it makes me want to share it:
It’s neatly presented, broken down into easy-to-read paragraphs and contains interesting pictures. It is not too long and has some good facts and information I never knew about, so that is something I would easily share or send to my friends. Cool facts and pieces of knowledge are always something that people share.

2. 33 Ways To Get And Keep Yourself Motivated

What is it about:
A list post of 33 ways to get and keep yourself motivated.

Why it is interesting:
List posts are always interesting to read because with so many reasons about a topic I’m interested in (motivation), there are bound to be a couple good ones that I can learn from.

Why it makes me want to share it:
List posts are the most common kind of posts that get shared very easily. A list is something that everyone can relate to, and the more reasons on the list, the more likely a reader is to find something that they can relate to on a strong level. If you have a friend or family member that needs some motivation, a list like this one is perfect to send to them or share on the web.

3. Ten Strange Places

What is it about:
Ten strange locations in our world. Places both weird and wonderful and amazing to see.

Why it is interesting:
Travel is one of those global topics that almost everyone is interested in. Our world has so many hidden treasures and beautiful places. It is always fascinating to see pictures and learn more about our world. This post has ten incredible places in the world, with some interesting facts about them and gorgeous pictures!

Why it makes me want to share it:
Beauty is worth sharing! Pretty pictures and awesome locations in the world? That is definitely a recipe for a post that I want to share with the world and my friends.

4. 40 Tips for a Better Life

What is it about:
40 Different ways how you can improve your life.

Why it is interesting:
Everybody likes to think that they are living life the right way. I also like to think this, but I know there is always plenty of room for improvement. That is why this post is so appealing, it arouses curiousity to see if there is a way in which you can improve your life.

Why it makes me want to share it:
It’s an awesome list post. Easy to read with some valuable wisdoms that I would want to share with others.
I know that it is easy to read and won’t be a nuisance to others, but more of an asset to them, and that is exactly why I’d share this post.

5. How to Become a Better Husband, Boyfriend or Life Partner

What is it about:
This article is about being the best man you can be for yourself AND for your lady. Written by a man for other men.

Why it is interesting:
Relationships rank high in the list of most important things in the world. I for one am always curious about what other people say about relationships and how to maintain them. This post lists a whole lot of reasons in easy-to-read paragraphs. A nice length and rather informative.

Why it makes me want to share it:
Good relationship advice is always welcomed by others. Besides that, it was fun to read and enjoyable, and that is exactly why I’d share it.

6. How to Live a Better Life with Less

What is it about:
Achieving more by doing less.

Why it is interesting:
The concept of being able to live a better life and do more by actually doing less is an interesting concept in itself. The post is broken down in easy-to-read paragraphs with headings. In today’s world we are all so busy doing things, that we forget by doing less and the essential, that we can focus on the things we really want to do.

Why it keeps my attention and makes me want to share it:
It contains an important truth of cutting out the unnecessary and focusing on what you want to do. I would share this because it can genuinely help people make their lives better.

7. How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?

What is it about:
Life and how you are letting it pass you by.

Why it is interesting:
So many of us all live for the weekend, or for the holiday, or the promotion in 5 years time. This post questions the way you live your life and if you are letting it pass you by. Very thought-provoking.

Why it makes me want to share it:
Exactly for that reason mentioned above. To give people a wake-up call so that they can realise if they are letting life pass them by.
How To Create a Viral Blog Post

List Posts:
The majority of the posts that go viral seem to be list-type posts. “X reasons to do something” or “X ways to be inspired”. The reason that these posts are so easily shared is that they are easy to read and there is always one or more reasons that relates to the reader. That is why they feel happy to share it and go through the trouble.

Interesting Topics:
Posts that go viral are often about topics that everybody has an interest in. Travel, life, money, sex, relationships. These have a broad appeal and are likely to be shared.

How-to Posts:
If you can provide a solution for a problem then people are grateful. If you can provide a solution for a common problem that many people have, the chances are big that your post will get shared by everyone who finds your solution helpful.

Of course not every post that you write in one of the above three styles will ensure that it goes viral. however, I think that it will greatly increase your chance for creating a diamond in the rough, a post that will get thousands if not hundreds of thousands of views. If your aim is to create viral blog posts, or even just one or two to get more traffic to your blog and new readers, then it is worth it to write articles in one of the three styles I mentioned above (or a combination of the styles).

Content :

1. Write a list of over 100+ resources or ideas.
2. Write the definitive guide to something. Spend time making this awesome.
3. Release a manifesto.
4. Release 2 manifestos.
5. Interview cool people. People like talking about cool people.
6. After your articles are indexed in search engines, break them up into smaller articles and submit them to ezinearticles.com (and other article directories).
7. Or just pay someone to submit the articles for you.
8. Write a list of all the cool blogs and people in your niche.
9. Check out the most popular content on high trafficked blogs. Create similar content but applied to your own niche.

Facebook :

10. Start a page.
11. Make that page awesome.
12. Start a group.
13. Make that group awesome.
14. Create a Facebook app for your blog.

Fundamentals :

15. Wait. After you’ve taken action it can take a short while for traffic to arrive.
16. Be patient. Some bloggers may seem like overnight successes, but if you look back in their archives, they’ve been creating content for a long time.
17. Motivate yourself.
18. Read The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing.
19. Have an interesting story and overall purpose.
20. Embrace the Law of Reciprocity. Everything you give will come back exponentially.
21. Make blogging easier.
22. Take action every day. Just get one important thing done every day and eventually you’ll start getting traffic. The more you do each day the faster your blog gets traction.
23. Find people with blogs at a similar level to yours and help each other out.
24. Turn off your computer, do some cool stuff, turn on your computer again and blog about it.
25. Understand the importance of context.
26. Be consistent. You don’t need to blog every day but try to stick to at least some sort of schedule.
27. Make it a numbers game. Decide upon a definite plan of action (eg. 20 blog comments per day, 1 guest post per week etc) and stick with that.

Online Video :

28. Create videos and distribute them through tubemogul.com
29. Or for wider video distribution trafficgeyser.com may work for you (expensive though).
30. Respond to YouTube videos with your content.
31. Include your full blog address at the TOP of your video descriptions.
32. Take your time with devising video titles and tags.
33. Convert your video to multiple formats, with slight editing changes, and upload it to video sites multiple times, targeting different keywords. The content remains the same but you can test what videos and titles work the best.
34. Buy the accounts of popular YouTubers and then add your blog address to the descriptions of their videos.
35. Start the first live show in your niche (Ustream, Justin.tv and LiveStream are popular choices). Make sure you record the shows too so they can be distributed as a podcast later on.

Other Blogs :

36. Be the first commenter on the posts of popular blogs. But still provide value.
37. If you can’t be the first then comment anyway. But try to be the first.
38. Stumble and Digg cool blog posts you find and let the blogger know via a comment. If you have something worthy on your blog, they’ll probably reciprocate.
39. Use google.com/blogsearch to find fresh blog posts and then leave intelligent comments.
40. Link to blogs of a similar size. They’ll notice and then good stuff may happen.
41. Write a guest post for a large blog. You may not always get published, but when you do the traffic spike will be significant.
42. Write a guest post for a small blog. You’re more likely to get published and build relationships with the next wave of A-List bloggers.
43. Write some more guest posts. Can’t hurt, that’s for sure.
44. Join a blog network.

Paid :

45. Start a StumbleUpon Ads campaign.
46. Get reviewed.
47. Buy some ad space.
48. Send out a press release.

People
49. Attend relevant meetups.
50. Tell your friends and family about your blog. Have them tell everyone they know.

Podcasting

51. Start a podcast and submit it to the iTunes directory.
52. Convert audio files to video files (just use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie) and send them out via tubemogul.com
53. Submit it to some other podcast directories.

Search engine optimization

54. Write linkbait.
55. Have any video or audio content transcribed and posted to your blog.
56. Register your domain name for 10 years.
57. Take advantage of sites scraping your blog’s feed by interlinking posts. Simple way to get deep inbound links.
58. Use Thesis.

Social networks

59. Join every social network you can.
60. Or, just join a couple and be really active.
61. Become active in relevant ning.com communities.
62. Convert blog posts to PDF files and submit them to Scribd – include your blog url in the description and document itself.
63. Add your Scribd documents to relevant groups.
64. Submit your best posts to blog carnivals.
65. Join relevant forums, add your blog address to your signature and start posting intelligently.
66. Sign up at ping.fm and use twitterfeed.com to auto post your latest blog content to a bunch of social networks.
67. Create lists on Amazon.com
68. Write reviews on Amazon.com
69. Better yet, create video reviews for Amazon.com
70. Answer relevant questions on Yahoo Answers, leaving your website as the source.
71. Or on Mahalo Answers.
72. Or even through LinkedIn Answers.
73. Start your own Slinkset, and feed your RSS feed into it automatically.
74. Submit your site to alltop.com
75. Write an article aimed at Digg (okay, that article won’t help much).
76. Also, befriend one of the many Digg powerusers.
77. Create a new thread on a forum and write up a really great guide with no self promotion. Simple way to be seen as an authority figure and to elicit comments on your writing (don’t forget that signature link though!).
78. Submit your content to dofollow social bookmarking sites.
79. Or have Bookmarking Demon do it for you (certainly a bend in ethics though).

StumbleUpon

80. Become an active stumbler to understand what stumblers like.
81. Friend people who stumble your content (they may just want to stumble more in the future)..
82. Have other people initially submit content (or “Discover” it as it’s known).
83. Place a Stumble button in your post template.

Su.pr

84. Sign up at su.pr and use it for all your short url needs.
85. Post content to your Facebook and Twitter stream.
86. Install the Wordpress plugin to automate the process.
87. Identify the times that result in the most clicks and schedule tweets for them.
88. Setup your blog as a promoted website.

Twitter

89. Include hash tags (#tagname) in your tweets.
90. Search for your niche and answer any questions people have.
91. Place a Retweet button in your post template.
92. Follow relevant, popular, and interesting people.
93. Send @replies to relevant, popular and interesting people.
94. Tweet links to your content at multiple times during the day.
95. Love a product from a company that’s on Twitter? Review it and they may just notice and tweet about the review. It’s happened to me.
96. Sponsor some tweets.
97. Find cool people in your niche who live nearby and organize a tweet up (a meet up where you invite anyone on Twitter).

Wordpress

98. Install All In One SEO Pack.
99. Automatically ping lots of ping services.
100. Create a theme, include a link to your blog in the footer, and then release it for free.
101. Create a plugin and release it for free. Add a link to your blog within the admin area. If it’s a good plugin people will love you for it.