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What exactly makes other bloggers stop following your blog? Depending on you niche, the actual bloggers that follow your blog can vary. In my niche, probably 90% of the people following are all bloggers. And, by ‘following‘ I mean,
What exactly do other blogger want from following you up?
Difference between a normal web surfer following your blog and another blogger following your blog is immense. Mainly because, bloggers expect certain things in return when they comment you up or follow you up. Well, most of them. These thing include,
So – the *drumroll* – and off we go! 61 ways to lose ‘em all off your tail:
This is the easiest way to lose a dedicated follower. Just ignore their comments. I have subscribed to certain blogs and followed them up. After posting 2-3 comments and seeing the signs of “Ignore-those-comments” syndrome, I had happily unsubscribed from these blogs. Well, that doesn’t apply to blogs that get around a gazillion comments per day. But medium/low traffic bloggers are real champions of losing their followers this way.
When bloggers feel ignored, they will leave! There are 20,000 blogs created everyday. Why do you think they need to follow your life for no return at all? In other words, this applies to personal blogs more than the others.
Remember that bloggers are bloggers, and most of them know their way around. There are many bloggers out there who fake it till they make it! It’s evident that they have no idea what they are saying or what flagship/authority content is, but have put up that sticker in their blogs that says ‘Pro-Blogger! Read my tips!’.
If you know this is you, and you’re in a deadlock, please don’t bother moving on. You’re only wasting your time. Try blogging about something that you know and something that people will not waste their time over. Over promising and under delivering. I’ve seen bloggers write about AdSense tricks, Entrecard tips, and don’t even know the difference between the PPC and the PPM model.
Take it from me – in the blogosphere, you can’t fake it. There are many people who had been there before you.
To this day, I’ve never written about making money online. True – I make money online. But just because I do, I can’t write about it. I must have a hands down knowledge about it. By the way, it’s not long before I start writing about monetizing your blog, so watch out for that!
Another easy way of losing good prospective addicts of your blog. It’s totally fine when you keep you fans as fans and friends as friends on StumbleUpon. It’d be great if you can go the extra mile and make ‘em all friends and be the most down to earth blogger there., then again, if you need to keep the stalkers out, I don’t recommend it.
But, most of your fans would find social media more convenient to get in touch with you, other than e-mailing. So when they do, make sure that they are felt important. After all, it’s the best thing that you can do for your fans right?
Have you tried showing your fans the size of your ego? Well, you did right by our code then. It’s probably the most effective way to lose ‘em. When you demonstrate your ego, it all comes crashing down sooner or later.About 1 year ago I got to know about the dot com mogul – JohnChow.com! Reading his E-Book was the second most influential thing to get me into blogging. And he was like this role model blogger to me. I know there are so many people hating him and saying he’s got a big ego. But I asked him a question on his blog once and he replied! I never expected him to reply me since I didn’t even have a blog at that time, and it was too much of an amateur question. But he did!
And there! He might have a big EGO. He has achieved a lot and it’s perfectly fine by me. But what I really like about him is that he doesn’t make an effort to show it off fore amateur bloggers.
Then again, there are those bloggers who really think that they are the smartest ones on the planet but offer nothing but empty vessels. The headline cries out loud “Top AdSense earnings Tricks…”, but it’s evident that they don’t even know what they are writing about!
Do you ignore your posting consistency? Post everyday for a week and then once a fortnight? Seriously, don’t do that! Out of all the blogs that offer almost the same content, there’s a reason why they subscribed to your one. Because, they believe you are able to deliver quality content in a timely fashion. Don’t break their trust.
You may think once you go off posting for a week or so and try catching up later, everything will come together. Quite not the case. See, a lost subscriber, 90% of the time, is a lost subscriber. You can hardly get someone to subscribe to your blog twice. I learned it the hard way! Back in January, I got so carried away that I forgot all about the existence of MindBlogger. My strong subsciber base came crashing down, and I’m forced to re-build it once again.
Hopefully, you guys won’t have to go through the same thing?
Do you express your political opinion? Or for that matter, any radical opinion? Don’t forget that bloggers are human too! (This one by the way is a self proclaimed cyborg:) Doesn’t matter whom you vote for, unless you’re running your blog for the soul purpose of political campaigning, or if your blog is a very personal one, it’s the secret recipe to flush out half of the loyal followers.
Let me give you an example. I mentioned in one of my articles here, my opinion about Ron Paul for US ’08s. It was truly a harmless (I won’t say it’s non offensive) opinion, and… let’s just say I got half of what I deserved for that post! People love Ron Paul, I do too, and it was a bad idea to get him involved in one of my posts. Once again – learnt it the hard way!
May it be political or non-political. Please think twice before being controversial. Will save you a lot of sanity!
So what do you think? Got any new ways to lose subscribers that you’re not telling me?
Great article! Good tips! Cheers!
@ the1truecoolguy-
Thanks. Appreciate it! Cheers.
yup, I belive that. Thats why I try my very best to payback a visit to anyone who leaves a comment on my blog. Except for spammers… I also beleive that we shouldn’t write something that we are not really sure that we know about. It’s better to write your thoughts about it than telling your readers that what you write is a fact. Opnion and view base post is better, leaving the decision to your readers if your post should be believe in or not.
How to ” have no friends” post. Excelent!
@ “Walk Through Money ONline Journal” -
Couldn’t agree with you more on that. Thanks for the comment.
@ “Lazy” –
Woah! That gives me the inspiration for another blog post:) Appreciate your comment.
excellent comments for a baby blogger such as myself!! thanks
lol.
Then they will still follow you.
They just want to copy the topics and advertisement styles.
I thought and have found by experience that controversial blogs bring traffic. I don’t mean you should attack anyone person in particular, but do believe controversy brings readership?
Oh yeah! I do.. Check out the next post
nice article dude. thks!
Since you asked, I will like to join this points. Be a copycat. Fill your blog will copyrighted articles from “Ezine Articles” and such like.
Nice reminder you gave here.
Just wanted to say that this is a great article for us noob bloggers. Keep it up.
great article mate… that was really very inspiring…
Awesome, great tips, once again. I’m hooked to your blog, lol. It’s in my favorites now!
i guess, i already did that. I have many strong and loyal readers and visitor at my site. Really love them because support my site and blog.
EGO? hoho..never do that if you still want some visitor to your site..