Blogging Tips from a Baby Blogger (why i follow and unfollow blogs).

      My blog is not even a year old yet, but people have been messaging me asking for blogging tips, so maybe some of y’all think my opinions are valid despite the lack of experience on my part??    

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       This is really just going to be a rambling of all the things I’ve learned, and me complaining about certain things, but I’m really good at that, so this should be fun!

edit 2/9/18: This is mainly me joking around, I'm not trying to target or attack anyone personally.

        Bloggers are always looking to grow their audience, because we are a greedy and petty lot because without followers our blogs are just sad, desolate places on the interwebs.

         And I said this in my vlog, but I really believe that blogging is pretty much luck....

except maybe for a few aspects... 

      

    

      Here are some things that make me like and follow a blog!

1. A friendly blogger. I love interaction! I love meeting bloggers, chatting with them in their comment sections and chatting with them in mine, it just makes me super happy. I like feeling like there's a connection beyond the screen, which might be weird to say, but it's just really nice.

 2. A nice design. If I randomly stumble across a blog that is AMAZING and beautiful (like Anna's blog for example,) I'm most likely going to want to stick around more.

         I know blog design can be tricky, here are two sites that might help: helplogger is really nice when you're trying to tackle HTML, and canva is amazing for graphic design.

3. Interesting and well written content. This is a no brainer! 

         I feel like everyone knew about these things from their own experience... so let me talk about the things that irk me, and make me say "bye, Felicia!" to a blog and why people might not click the follow button on your blog...or worse, unclick it.

       Oh, and I'm not calling anyone out or anything (except for maybe one person, oooohhhh, scandalous), I have a really bad memory so I can't remember half of the people that have done this. XD

 1. No interaction. This, THIS  annoys me greatly. When people never respond to your comments on their blog and never ever comment on yours, especially when they have around twenty followers alone.

         I'm not trying to make up an excuse for myself (or am I?) but I follow around a hundred blogs, but WHO ARE THESE TINY BLOGGERS FOLLOWING?!? WHO'S BLOWING UP THEIR FEED AND EMAIL SO MUCH THAT THEY LOSE TRACK??? NO ONE. It just comes off as so rude, and it cracks me up when these people act like they should have more followers, although they obviously don't care to get to know anyone.

^^Me trying to figure out these people's logic and failing.

2. When bloggers come off as super conceding. Now I feel like a hypocrite because this section of this post is basically me ranting and being conceding, but I hopefully don't come off like this in every post of mine (I'm just really irked at some of these things, so I'm coming off like this, help).

         I just really hate the whole holier-than-thou attitude, probably one of the reasons I don't follow a lot of modesty bloggers, although I have a great respect for the ones I do! I mean, Catherine wrote this really enlightening and interesting post about her modesty standards and Melani and Libby, both of which also talk about modesty a lot.

          I don't always agree with these three, but I respect their opinions and the fact that they are a light to others who think like them and feel similarly convicted.

         But sometimes I stumble across a blog (going off of the modesty example) and the vibe I get is: "I WEAR LONG SKIRTS AND HALF SLEEVE SHIRTS BECAUSE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT, BOW BEFORE ME, SINNERS!!!"

         Do y'all want a cookie?

3. When people think you care. Now, that sentence looks bad and petty, so allow me to explain, some blogger assume that complete strangers care about every single little thing they did that day. In other words, some people got a blog, when they really should have gotten a facebook. I come across bloggers who only post blog posts that literally look like this:

        Hi guys! Today I ate a sandwich and drank a coke, then I did school. It was a fun day.

.....THIS IS WHAT A DIARY IS FOR, PEEPS.

4. When people are creeps. I've unfollowed and blocked a few people because they gave me and even some of my followers weird vibes. Half of the time I don't think they mean to be creepy or weird, they just don't understand how the internet works...

5. When people never support back. I hate those petty follow for a follow comments, but I also feel like there is a certain level of expectation when someone follows a blog and leaves a comment. I try to follow most of the people that follow me, because it's kind of one of those you scratch my back, I scratch yours situations. And some people just don't get that... I recently unfollowed most of the bloggers that never interact with me on my blog or theirs, because I'm wasting my time, they're obviously not interested in friendship.

       Soo, if you're reading this because you came here wondering where I went, hi!

         Peeps, if you're reading this, I wish you all the blogging success, and alllll of the followers, but I just won't be one of them.

       In conclusion, blogging is a magical world, and I love it... most of it. And I hope you get as much joy as I do from it, and I also hope this post helped you... somehow.  

         Don't do any of these things, and if you're doing them, STOP. (except if they're the good things I named). XD

What have you learned in blogging?
What annoys you in this world (asides from me, y'all. XD)

 

Happy Writing,