Blogging and Its Reality

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About a month ago, I wrote about Instagram in one of my posts. Today, in this post, I want to talk about WordPress bloggers.

So, one toxic day, a bang-bang question popped into my mind: if my blog has 650+ followers, then why do my blog posts get less than half the likes? Out of curiosity (and a little frustration), I opened my list of followers and started scrolling. After about half an hour, I realized that around 50 sites werenโ€™t even opening, and nearly 100 hadnโ€™t been active for a year or two. And just like that, I found myself in a Dharam Sankatโ€”if I delete these sites, my follower count drops, but if I donโ€™t, then whatโ€™s the point of keeping dead followers?

So, I put a big stone on my heart and took the most painful decision. I removed all my dead followers. Now, my blog shows 500+ followersโ€”but Iโ€™m satisfied and confident because at least I know the truth about my blog.

And now I want to give two small pieces of advice to anyone who is serious about their blog.

First, do this with your blog too. Go through your followers list. Why? So that you understand the real status of your blog and can work hard accordingly. It also helps make one thing very clearโ€”running a blog is not a cakewalk. Everyone seems to be a blogger these days. I know it might sound harsh, but we canโ€™t support everyone. We should support the ones who are serious about their work and actually show up.

Second, please post. Once a week or even once a month, but post regularly. Just let us know you still exist.

It is easy to start something. Itโ€™s also easy to finish something. But it is difficult to continue something.

Well, a few days ago, on 25th September, my blog completed 3 years. So, thank you very much for your love and support.

Have a good day.

TheSparklingWords // Anushree Vaishnav

76 responses to “Blogging and Its Reality”

  1. Congratulations and great advice!

  2. Great advice! Thank you for sharing this. I’m blogging from last 5 years, I have more than 3k followers on WordPress but my posts hardly get more than 300+ likes… I knew most people give up blogging after trying for a while if they don’t get the response they wanted or maybe get too busy with something, so I had idea that this can be the one reason (along with followers who are following tonnes of other blog that my posts get lost in their WordPress feed) but I have never actually see how many of my followers are inactive.

    Btw, congratulations on the blogoversary ๐ŸŽ‰

  3. Congratulations! All the best !

    1. Thanks a lot kritika ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. Many many congratulations ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ for completing 3 years… Keep writing! Keep blogging ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ‘

  5. Great insight & I agreed with you as the same has been done by me but there is more do however I was also not regular on blog that is the other reason I discovered.
    Congrats on 3rd anniversary & Keep writing!!โœŒ๐Ÿ‘

    1. Thanks a bunch ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

  6. Heartiest congratulations on completing the 3 years of successful blogging journey. Best wishes for your journey ahead ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•

  7. Congratulations on completing 3 years on WordPress.

  8. Congratulations dear ๐ŸŒบ keep writing ๐ŸŒท๐Ÿ˜Š

  9. Congratulations! Wise words and I totally agree with you. Even i have seen many people simply liking and following my blog without even reading it. All just to get some likes in return!

    1. Thank you Pavithra ๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿ™‚

  10. Awesome! Congrats. I have always loved citing your Instagram page. ๐Ÿ™‚ Keep roll-in A. ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. That’s great. Thanks a bunch ๐Ÿ˜Š

  11. Congratulations Anushree, on your blogging journey so far.

    I feel almost all blogs have dead followers. Maybe, they have other commitments that their blogs go untouched. They return at times to just read their favourite blogs that they’ve followed. So, personally I don’t feel deleting them is a better choice. You see, silent reading is ad much fun as writing.

    To support the active ones, I turn on their notifications so that their posts don’t go unnoticed.

    1. You have a point Anisha. Well thank you so much ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ˜‡

  12. Thank you so much for this

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