There are so many great blogs I want to read and keep up with more than I do, but I spend so much time working on my own blog, and it’s so hard to find enough time. Bloggers who are far more popular than this one still manage to find time to read and Like their followers’ posts and even comment on them. I probably have one tenth the activity they do, but it’s a real challenge keeping up. I’m in awe of them. How do they do it?
Up until now, I’ve tried to follow every blogger who’s following me, but I’m getting far too many email notifications, so I can’t do that anymore. If you are following this blog and don’t receive a follow back, please do not be offended. It’s nothing personal.
This is awesome, and so are all my followers. 🙂
Thanks in particular to Onishiro, who became my 1000th follower.
Gotcha! None of the above apply.
Absolutely nothing will happen if you don’t follow this blog.
See? I’m a nice person.
Not that most of my existing followers are actually reading this blog. I read somewhere that out of every 10 followers you have, only one person is actually reading your blog regularly. Some will never read it again. People will sometimes just check out your blog once, hit “follow” because the button is there, but never visit again. Hey, I know, I’ve been guilty of doing that myself. So if you’ve been doing it and happen to see this post, I forgive you.
Of course the real readership of any blog is from web surfers who aren’t following you and will never follow you. They Google something, find your blog, and read or bookmark the article they’re interested in but never read anything else you ever wrote, and that’s okay.
I get a lot of foodies reading this blog, mostly because of my two candy articles, and those articles have been reposted and shared and still get a lot of hits. But why would a foodie want to follow a blog like this, other than for those two articles? I also get quite a few furries who have read this blog, because I’ve posted a few articles about furries (and a few are actually following it too). But this isn’t a furry blog. Or a food blog. Or an indoor gardening or a humor blog. The moral of this is, never underestimate casual readers. They’re your bread and butter.
So here’s what I need: I need 2 more followers of this blog to make 400 followers (which is really just 40), and only one more email follower to reach that all-important milestone of 500 (which boils down to 50 if only 10% of those are actually reading what I write).
Please help me make this happen?
Lucky Otters Haven 