I was just checking my statistics on this blog. This is the blog that’s mainly for my actual friends (people who know me), which is more personal & detailed than my other blog. Yet on this blog, I only have 5 followers & virtually never have comments. The top 10 countries that read this blog are U.S., Brazil, Italy, Switzerland, Philippines, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Russian Federation and Vietnam. I have friends in the U.S., Italy, Philippines, Switzerland, France, Liechtenstein and Vietnam, so those countries don’t really surprise me, but the other ones do a bit. The three bottom countries for reading this blog are Surinam, Bolivia and Guatemala.
My OTHER blog is more general and, usually, has less travel-related posts on it. It gets way less views than this one, yet I have 85 followers on that one, plus every so often someone actually comments on my posts. Go figure! Something I read said that people actually prefer to read longer posts than shorter ones. I’d think, in this day and age when everyone is rushing around, that they’d prefer to read shorter posts. I mean, I post whatever I have to say, short or long, but that surprised me as well.
My Tumblr account has 48 followers. I post lots of nice photos on there, but somehow they don’t get as much exposure as other accounts. Maybe I should rethink my hash tags (though I truly detest hash tags). My Instagram has 17 followers. I don’t put that much on my Instagram, but get many more likes on that than on Tumblr, even though my photos on Tumblr are much nicer.
The biggest surprise for me is that I have 72 followers on Twitter. It took me awhile to begin tweeting, as I didn’t see the point of it. Now I put things on Twitter to people who don’t even know me rather than on Facebook. A lot of French restaurants follow me on Twitter, but that HAS to be because of my handle. Other accounts simply follow you back when you follow them. I recently mentioned Buddha in a post, then 3 “Buddha” accounts immediately started following me.
Three of my favorite musicians follow me. One follows me on Tumblr, Twitter AND Instagram. When he sees me, I swear that he recognizes me and seems to “know” me, based on my photos and posts on those websites. The second musician follows me on Twitter and the third one follows me on Instagram.
It makes one wonder exactly what post drew your followers in. If you have an opinion on this, please feel free to comment.
My next conquest – Pininterest! (Just kidding; can’t go there yet.)