I was inspired by a friend’s post about following blogs and blog followers. You can find his post here.
We could not hide the fact that when we gain more followers, we are happy. Either it means they truly love our blog posts and they would like to participate through comments and likes or they are those who are new in the blogging world and ask us to follow their blogs as well. Sometimes I return the gestures back when I read the content of their blogs and I like it. There are bloggers who follow you just to promote their site with nary a like nor a comment on your posts. I wonder if they really read what you write. There are those who have deleted their accounts and would still follow you.There are those who just love to link their sites to yours but when you try to visit the sites, you would be surprised, most if not all posts are ping backs. Sometimes I am in a quandary whether to approve those comments or not.
We could always control all those comments by manually approving them, We could always choose who to follow. I don’t always follow those who follow me. I only follow more than a hundred blogs that I regularly read. Last night though, I learned that you could also remove followers that you are not comfortable with. I started the process of visiting some blogs and removed those I can’t even see when I clicked the links. Never mind if I’ll have fewer followers in the process. This is a work in progress and it may take sometime to check all those 2,800 plus followers that I have.
A few months ago, I learned how to block some people who visited my site. There were one or two that I decided to block. I must admit that I am learning so much in this blogging world. Sharing a bit of your life in cyber space takes courage but the happiness that you get through blogging, unleashing those lovely thoughts, putting into words those ideas and feelings, giving vent to something you have encountered and do not necessarily agree to.
Blogging still.
Coming to this planet takes even greater courage. 😉
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True!
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Absolutely agree Arlene. I have encountered all such followers too. The blogging journey has definitely taught me many lessons!
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I guess they are here to stay Radhika. Keep blogging, you are an inspiration too 🙂
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😇😇 have a lovely day!
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Thanks, you too!
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I still am figuring this blogging thing out, too, Arlene. Mostly, how to manage my time and keep up. It’s a great idea to go through a little at a time and clean up. 🙂 You’re inspiring me.
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Thank you Diana. I am glad some bloggers here are up to date in posting and sharing on how to keep those blogs easy to manage. We learn something along the way 🙂
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Thanks for mentioning my post, Arlene. I sometimes mark unwanted comments or obvious ‘sales comments’ as Spam. If enough of us do this, then WordPress may stop them being able to try to comment, and send them straight to our Spam folders.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’re welcome Pete. I will do that too. I don’t read all those spam comments. they go direct to my “empty spam”.
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You learn something new everyday! I didn’t even think spam would exist on a place like this! Thanks for this!
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Thanks Jojo.
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Useful thoughts, Arlene. The longer I blog the more I understand that it is really the friendships that develop through comments that are the stats that count
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I guess you are right there Derrick. Meeting friends and being in a community with them…priceless.
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A lot of work behind the scene for blogging. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
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You’re welcome Amy. thanks too for the visit.
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2,800 followers!
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Hehe, they’re not all that active. Yung iba pandagdag lang yata nila 🙂
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Thanks for sharing this, it is a really great way to start building readers by interacting with other blogs and bloggers. But you’re right it should be genuine and not just a selfish endeavour. I agree on your perspective on following back people if you like their content too, as I’d much rather have people I’m following that create content I enjoy and that is relevant rather than just following people in fear they’ll unfollow, as most of these people aren’t really interested anyway! Thanks for sharing, really agree with your opinion on this one
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Hi Giles, let me thank you first for following my blog. And thanks too for these lovely words. I have always said that blogging has has somehow become a way of life. It takes real courage to share your woes and triumphs in life with people you don’t know from Adam. Would love to explore your blog too. Thanks again 🙂
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It really does, and the rewards definitely make up for it! You’re welcome I really enjoyed this post
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Thanks again 🙂
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I loved your last line! Can really relate ..
I just started blogging less than a week ago, and I’m still getting a hang of the whole blogging culture. This article and Part 1 helped me understand a bit better 🙂 Nice to meet you 🙂
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Nice to meet you too and thank you for following my blog. Welcome to the blogging world.
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