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This is a real weakness of mine. I didn't start my blog to count followers. It was supposed to be a personal thing. And, my blog grows very slowly. I have over 500 followers, but I've been blogging almost three years. I actually have done LESS in the past year to attract people to my blog.
What do I do? I participate in a couple of memes on a weekly basis. I try to comment a lot (but never enough.) I mostly review books that are current -- either right before or right after they are published. I think my reviews are good. They are fairly short. They don't give away any spoilers -- actually I don't talk too much about the plot except in general terms. I concentrate on what I thought about the book. That's what I'm looking for when I read a review. I don't need six paragraphs on what happened in the book and then a two sentence, "I really liked it." That doesn't help me.
What SHOULD I do? I've wanted to update the design of my blog for a long time. Actually spend some money. I should be more active on Twitter -- but that takes away from my reading time. I should do more giveaways. I should post things besides reviews. Even though on other blogs I follow, I pretty much only read the book reviews, other people seem to like other stuff. Author interviews, book blasts, etc.
Will I do this? I might some day work on my blog design. I might try to have more giveaways. But other than that, probably not. My heart just isn't in the marketing aspect of blogging. I'm all about reading and reviewing. If I don't have many followers it's really OK. Really.
I've not being doing anything to gain more followers either, even though I know I should. I think we're coming at blogging from a very similar perspective :)
ReplyDeleteTwitter is a hard thing. It can be addictive, but i have found after an initial outlay of time, I now spend very little time on it. I restrict myself to checking about 3 times a day and a schedule my tweets ahead of time. Not the most interactive way to do it, but it works for me.
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I think you have the same mind set as me. My blog was meant to be fun. Those that do follow I'm thankful for, but I'm not desperate for them!
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I love your blog BECAUSE it has tons of reviews, so I hope you'll keep doing lots of them. :-) I agree, Twitter and Facebook and all the other marketing aspects take time away from reading and reviewing, and it's hard to find a balance. It's great that you're doing what personally satisfies you with your blog, because otherwise it would feel like work, rather than a fun outlet. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love your type of reviews the best, it is the same kind I write. I don't put book descriptions in my reviews. I assume if you need a description it is easy enough for you to find one.
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