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 weren’t even opening, and nearly 100 hadn’t been active for a year or two. And just like that, I found myself in a Dharam Sankat—if I delete these sites, my follower count drops, but if I don’t, then what’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+ followers—but I’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 clear—running a blog is not a cakewalk. Everyone seems to be a blogger these days. I know it might sound harsh, but we can’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. It’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

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  1. Great advice, I totally agree👍…btw Happy 3rd year blog anniversary and all the best✌️

  2. This dharm sankat is universal😅. Everyone faces it. We should encourage and follow the serious and enthusiast writers/bloggers. Congratulations on your 3 years. 😊

  3. Congratulations my friend for celebrating 3 rd anniversary.

    A hard task indeed to delete the followers.

    And You did a good job.
    I agree with you.

    Having more followers but not equivalent likes or reasonable interaction is heart breaking.

    Blogosphere is a complex world of its own.

    We come across people having 100 followers but ‘likes’ more than hundred or ‘comments’ more than 100.Can we explain?

    Thank you for your analysis
    And love your paragraph about ….starting…..finishing…. continuing

    1. I also noticed many bloggers don’t reply to comments they receive from fellow bloggers

  4. Very good suggestions. It really needs a lot of perseverance on our part to continue steadily what we started so earnestly.

  5. blogging is dynamic as well, as many people come and go and is much harder than maintain an instagram feed.

  6. Congrats on your blogs third anniversary….agree with your thoughts on the follower and likes relationship.

  7. Congratulations on completing 3 years with your blog! Many more milestones to come, keep writing! 🙂

  8. That’s great advice. Having a few devout followers are much better than having several dead followers. Congratulations on your anniversary!

  9. Great peace of Advice, even reblogging their fav post helps and keeps the blog active.✨ Best wishes for your 3rd year.. More to go..😻

  10. I feel you on this….i think every other blogger does…..one would rather have 20 supportive followers instead of that 1000 who are nowhere to be seen.Nowadays finding someone who really takes time to read your work ,comment, like is so difficult because.Its the follow for follow routine where people will follow hoping you follow back and that’s just sad.

  11. Congratulations on the blogoversary!! 💖And yes, I too made the same observation 😅

  12. True! I would always prefer one honest reader on my blog then 10 followers who would never read my blog.
    Also, congratulations on completing 3 years❤

  13. Your doing amazing! Tbf I would prefer engagement over followers anyway! since that is what blogging is truly about!

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