Getting Followers

The heart of a blog is its followers. A blog strives and survives because of its followers and the more followers a blogger can get, the more prompted he or she will be to write. Blogging is essentially the act of writing for an audience. Most people blog because they want other people to read what they’ve said. I don’t think that any blogger can truthfully say that they just blog for the sake of blogging. If that were true, they wouldn’t have to put their writing into a public forum like the internet where anyone can see it. They want people to read it and to gain approval of their writing or artistic abilities from their peers.

Hence, bloggers gain followers by writing about a common interest or subject which many people can relate to. Here in lies the problem with my blog; here is the answer to why I only have six followers: No one can identify a common interest in this bile that I’m writing. But, let me tell you, it is hard writing for an audience, especially when you have no idea what you’re writing about. You want to keep everyone entertained and wanting to read more (what a burden, huh?)

So, it was not until recently that I decided that I needed to get more followers for my blog than the dedicated four that I had at the beginning of September. My blog is so sad that my own mother won’t even follow me and vaguely realizes its existence. You know how your mom is always supposed to be an unbiased, guaranteed fan/ follower of everything you do? I don’t even have that. So, you know I’m in a low ground of sorrow. So, to fix this ‘following’ problem, I enlisted the help of the internet. I asked the internet: How do I get followers on a blog?

The internet said:
1.Pimp Yourself Out to your friends- I recently got two new roommates. One of the first conversations that we had was about adding each other as friends on Facebook. I noticed that they each have a blog listed on Facebook, so I let them know about mine. After this conversation, I started telling people at work about my blog and at RS meetings. One day, someone will follow . . .
2.Work That Social Networking site- I put my blog url in that little “about me” box on Facebook. A lot of people even put that they have a new blog post as their status. I even got so desperate as to Tweet on twitter “Someone follow my blog, please : (“ that got me one more follower, thanks Jims
3.Barter and Trade- I’ve had to hold myself back from saying to a lot of people “The only way I’ll follow your blog is if you follow mine :p” I think that would be effective in getting followers, put a little pressure, you know?
4.Read Other People’s blogs- Apparently, some people with tons of followers have them because they read and follow other people’s blogs who they don’t even know. So, I started to do the same.
5.Make yourself searchable- So if I put something like WWE and talked about John Cena, or if I wrote about how much I love Kim Kardashian, someone is bound to look them up on Google and possibly find my blog and read.

I’ve been experimenting with this for like a week, but I did get another follower. Who knows? Only time will tell. My ultimate dream is to have 10 followers! : )