5 Steps to Go Viral on TikTok — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:00] I've come viral on TikTok hundreds of times, and by the end of this video, you're going to have a five-step strategy that you could steal today to help you go viral too. I don't care how many followers you have, what news trend, what type of account you have, these changes are going to help you go viral because it's simply just reverse engineering exactly how the TikTok algorithm works right now.

[00:19] But I do want to warn you, if you skip any of these things, it'll be the reason that you don't go viral during the golden age of getting more views on TikTok. Changeable one is you need to make sure that you're making your content the right length because this secretly could be one of the things that's actually destroying your views

[00:34] and literally a three to four second difference in how long your content is could be the difference between you getting hundreds of views or hundreds of thousands of views. Let me show you how to figure this out. So here's what you want to make sure that you're doing every single time that you go

[00:47] to post something. Let's say I was going to make a video about ChatGPG6 Astra. So what I could do is I could come over here and I could type in chat GPT-6 Astra. Now what we want to see here is we want to see other videos that have gone viral.

[01:01] For example, this video right here has gone viral. This video is 20 seconds long. If we click into this video, this video has gone viral. It's around three minutes long. Now this one is more of a comedic skit right here, where this one is more of an educational and tutorial video.

[01:15] So what I would want to do is I would want to reverse engineer and ask myself, hey, am I making a tutorial video or am I making a comedic video? If I was making a comedic video, what I would do is I would want to make my piece of content 20 seconds.

[01:29] And literally to show you a perfect example of this, look at this video. This video is 20 seconds long and we could see this video right here. He literally just copied this guy, but he also got a lot of views. So this one got 20,000 likes. If we actually click into this, we could see that it got 600,000 views.

[01:43] This video right here got 72,000 views. So still pretty good. and if we look, it was 19 seconds. So that literally proves exactly what I was trying to explain to you right here. If you were going to make a video about the same topic in the same format,

[01:56] you want to make sure that you're doing it around a similar length. Because if not, I can literally show you exactly what happens also right here. So this video right here, if we click into this, it got 200,000 views. This video did really well.

[02:08] Now if we come over to this video right here, which is also an educational tutorial video with GBD6 Astra, we can see this video was only 45 seconds, and that's why it failed and got 14,000 views. So if you want to make sure that you are maximizing

[02:21] how many views you're actually going to get, you want to make sure that you're matching up the topic and the format plus the length because this is what TikTok is actually reverse engineering when they say, hey, should we show this content out?

[02:33] Because if your content's the wrong length, you won't keep people on TikTok long enough so that TikTok isn't actually incentivized to push out your stuff. Change number two is honestly something that I never thought I would have to say and that is that now you need to make sure that you're engaging with people on TikTok. You need

[02:49] to be engaging with other people in your niche You need to be commenting on their stuff You need to be watching their stuff You need to be liking their stuff And you need to make sure that you responding to some of the comments that you get on your content too And the reason that this matters is because now we

[03:02] moving into more and more of an AI world. And what TikTok wants to see is they want to see you actually engaging with people. Otherwise, they're going to be worried that you're a bot and this could actually be the shadow banning your account. And you know what you're thinking, Rob, couldn't

[03:16] somebody just automate engagement? Well, yes, they've actually taken that into consideration too. So you want to make sure that when you're engaging with people, you're replying to comments, you're commenting on other people's posts, you're liking other people's stuff, you're following

[03:28] other people's stuff, that you make sure that you are doing it in a way that is not every day at 9 a.m. or every day at 3 p.m. because then it's going to look like a bot, it's going to look like robotic behavior, and this could actually be shadow banning your account. One of the things

[03:44] that TikTok won't tell you is, hey, we're shadow banning your account because we think that you're But the fact that you check whether or not your account's shadow banned, this actually won't show up. And the only way for you to be able to get out of this is to make sure that for the next one to two weeks, you go ahead and do this.

[03:59] Now, of course, this isn't something that you have to do every single day, but I would be trying to do this at least three to five days every single week. Now, change number three is you need to make sure that every single time you post on TikTok, it's actually something that is trending in your niche.

[04:14] The format needs to be trending. The topic needs to be trending. And now AI actually makes this incredibly easy for you to do. Now, the easiest way that I've actually found to do this is using contentbuddy.ai. Because when you're inside of TikTok right here, there are several different tools that you could use.

[04:29] For example, if we come over into Research and Insights, we're going to see this keyword finder right here, where we can type in our niche or what we want to post about. For example, let's say I'm going to post about your activity, Astra. I could come over here and I could search for this.

[04:41] And what this will actually allow me to see is exactly what keywords people are searching for right here, exactly how many views and how many search reviews they're actually getting per month right here.

[04:53] So if I see this right here, Traductor Music Astra, I can click on Find Trends, and what this is actually going to do is show me exactly what content is trending under this search. We can see this video got 100,000, this video got 100,000, 100,000, 80,000, 80,000.

[05:09] Now let's say that I like this video right here. I can actually preview it and see what this video is, what it's about. Let's say, yeah, I actually like this video. We can then click on recreate right here. And this is going to go through and analyze the video, analyze everything this creator did right.

[05:25] And it's going to write us a brand new script, give us exactly what hooks to use, what description and what hashtags so that we can actually go through and recreate this video. And this is how it's gone viral hundreds of times on TikTok. I make sure that every single piece of content that I make

[05:39] is based off of something that's trending, and this really goes through, and then I just record using the script, using these hooks this description these hashtags and it drastically increases my odds of going viral In addition to that if we come back over into the dashboard we can see they have more than 20 different tools They show you exactly what music is trending You can discover competitors You can discover trends

[06:00] You can use this for so many different things. But one of the things that I love is this intelligence dashboard right here. This allows us to actually go through, put in our account, our competitors, our niche, our keywords. We can click on refresh, and every single day, this will show us exactly

[06:15] what is trending in our niche. It'll give us account insights and tell us everything we're doing right, everything we're doing wrong. It will literally even give us feedback on our latest posts. And if we come over here, we get learnings from competitors.

[06:28] What our competitors are doing that we don't do. And if we click into any of them, we'll also get the same information that we got on the audit for us for each of our competitors. And if you're not using a tool like this in order to get these insights,

[06:40] in order to figure out exactly what is trending, in order to analyze your performance, you are going to get left behind in 2026 because the smartest creators in your niche all have this. And the best part about Content Buddy is if you go to the pinned comment below,

[06:52] you can get started with it today for free. They're offering a seven-day free trial, and this tool is an absolute no-brainer. It's going to help you get more views. It's going to help you grow faster. It's going to help you get more followers. And it makes it way easy for you to go viral on TikTok.

[07:04] So what are you waiting for? Go to that pinned comment below and get started today with a seven-day free trial for Content Buddy. Now, changing my floor, before we get into the most important thing, is you need to make sure that your content actually has the correct elements

[07:18] that cause posts to go viral on TikTok, and they're probably not the things that you think they are. Now, to actually reveal to you exactly what kind of things all viral posts have, I wanted to show you this post right here. So the first thing that we see here is I have a hook, and that hook is in red.

[07:32] You should only have your hooks in red or in black or white, and ideally in red. If you need me to prove that to you, let's look at all my viral videos. Of the top 12, literally 10 of them all have a hook in red.

[07:45] Clearly it works, captures people's attention. So we can see that there's a hook, and I'm pointing to that hook. In addition to that, we can see that after the first two or three seconds, I change to something else. And then after a few seconds here, I'm going to change to something else.

[07:58] So this does such a mix, somebody scrolling their TikTok, and this helps me increase the reach that I'm getting. In addition to that, if we come over to the hashtags, we'll see I only use three hashtags, and all three of them have the same types of keywords that show up here.

[08:14] Use this Chatship T hack. I have Chatship D hack, Chatship E prompt, Chatship T, because I then also show people a prompt inside of the video. They're very big hashtags, they're very strict hashtags,

[08:26] and they're very isolated to exactly what I'm talking about. In addition to that, try using this Chatship D hack to get a discount. I have the same keywords that show right here, showing in my description, showing here,

[08:39] and if we actually look at the comments, we could see tons of different people commented the same exact keywords This one put the prompt this one says agent mode This one says agent mode This one says discount Four chats for tea

[08:53] The most people like this one. And all these things are going to be signals to TikTok's algorithm. So repeat them again so you know exactly what they are. One, people commenting the same keywords that show on your hook. Two, three hashtags.

[09:06] All very good for what I'm posting. Three, a description that repeats the same words that show in the hook of my content. And then that last thing, like I said, is almost every few seconds,

[09:18] I'm changing the screen and I have something moving around and something else going on to capture and keep people's attention. And that last thing you need to make sure you're doing is you want to make sure that your account is set up correctly. And I just helped another creator

[09:30] gain hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and go viral so many different times. So I wanted to show you exactly how we change our account to help make this possible. So a perfect example of this is going to be Mike right here. He has gone viral on TikTok again hundreds of times, and the reason

[09:46] that this happens is because his account is set up correctly. The first thing I want to note here, again, all these videos that have gone viral, look at what color the hook is. They're all in red. You want to make sure your thumbnails are also in red. But besides that, if we look at his playlist right

[10:01] here, we could see credit repair, debt collectors, build your team's credit. What do all these have in common, they're about exactly what he's posting about. The second thing, and this is something most people overlook, is your name right here. You can literally make this whatever you want.

[10:17] Mike made his, Mike the Credit Guy. Why? Because he posts about credit content. So we have his niche in his name. We have his niche in his playlist. And if we look at his description, what do we see?

[10:30] Fix your credit. Increase your credit score. World Money News. Mike the Credit Guy. All these things combine to actually tell TikTok, hey, this is what I'm posting about. This is who you should be showing my content to. In addition to that, let's say that we come over here and we do a search on

[10:46] TikTok for credit repair. This is actually going to increase the odds that Mike's content shows up here because it's going to show under top. If we come under users, it increases the odds that it

[10:58] actually shows here all because he has this stuff here. In fact, if we see this credit repair, Credit repair. Credit repair. Credit repair. Credit repair. Literally everybody that's showing under here has that.

[11:10] Everybody that's showing in the top here, we see the same exact thing. So you want to make sure that your niche is in your name because it's one of the easiest ways for you to actually go through and get TikTok to recommend your content for you.

[11:22] Instead of you doing all the work and trying to push stuff out that goes viral, TikTok can actually help you once you get sucked into that algorithm because your account was set up correctly. Now, if you enjoyed this video and you want to learn exactly how you can get more followers on TikTok,

[11:37] I strongly suggest you check out this video right here that walks you through exactly how you can do that. I'll see you over there.