My answer =o

A person (check out their blog, I really dig it) asked a question on their own blog..... i originally tried answering in the comment but the shit got too long so i thought i might as well post it lmao!

They asked how to get followers... and mmm... i don't really know.... i may not be the best person to help because i don't have many myself, but i figured "might as well give my opinion". and of course, help to the best that I can.

See....You can't really shape your content to be what someone else likes because everyone's preferences on what they would like to read about is different. Plus you wouldn't want to become someone elses blog and have everyone reading the same thing but just written by a different person. That's so monotonous. The best thing i like about some of these blogs is that they are all different, but some... im going to have to go and unfollow in a moment because they are all basically the same thing, just written by a different person and its a dang shame. Where in the world is the individualism? (lmao that reminds me of a funny story, I'll blog it in a moment)

The best thing to do is keep your blog how it is, you know? Express your own self. If people like it then they are going to keep reading it, and maybe possibly follow it, but there's no way to force it.

I've been finding other blogs to read by going through other peoples pages. If I like their blog, i'll follow them and sometimes they follow me back =o.... that's pretty much my existence of followers lol.. I never ask them to follow me back though. the whole "follow me follow you" thing is played out. I say if you like me, follow me. If you don't, sucks for you. But why fill up you dashboard with a bunch of blogs you aren't really interested in following just so they can follow you back?

A good way to do it is to go to different sites, forums included and post your blog link all over them. That's basically spamming though. You'd have to do that the right way though, man. I'm serious....some people seem extremely desperate as they are posting their link trying to force others to read.

"oh please oh please read and follow my blog"

stuff like that... and stuff like posting 50 of the same links in one post. a simple check out my blog will suffice. lol! Something even more subtle is to just leave your comment that is about the post and put your blog link at the bottom lmao. Some people don't even comment on the post they are looking at. They just drop in, say hey check me out. hey follow me. Why??? Are you following me??? What did you even think about my post??? Did you even read it??? LOL!

Its ridiculous man.

Also... you should try going to the forum sit dot com. The site is basically what its name implies accept its fun and the topics people (and yourself) come up with are just crazy sometimes. if you like to debate then that is most definitely for you, and i don't but i still had fun on that site. best thing about that is that people become your really good friends too if you let them. Pretty much everyone on there is awesome but, like everywhere, sometimes you get a few jerks :S

It simple, if they get to know you even just a little bit then they will look at your blog, and follow you if they like it. I spent so much time on that site having fun and getting to know ppls though that I lost site of why i joined and didn't even try to get people to read my blog after awhile XD!

Hope I helped a slight bit, but if i didn't, sorry =/