Followers?
By kumarpslv
@kumarpslv (3216)
India
May 29, 2009 4:20pm CST
I happened to come across the word "Followers" in the blogs.What actually is this? Why should we follow other blogs and why we should let others to ours? What kind of benefit is in this? I had a request from some other member to follow his blog and he has been marked as the follower of my blog.As I don't about it, I am not replying him till now.Please clarify this.
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4 responses
@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
29 May 09
The advantage I find (in blogger at least) is that by following a blog, I can see who updated their blog recently without having to go and check each one manually. It also displays the first ten (or is it twenty) words, so I can make a quick decision whether or not I want to read the entry. Most of my following of other blogs is hidden; I don't want the fact that I follow your blog to be an endorsement of your posts. If you read the blogs from this particular niche interest, you would understand that one.
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
30 May 09
Still I am not able to understand it and it may be clear if I follow some body and let other to follow me . But I thing there may be some advantages in this.Thanks for your response
@trafficexchanges (119)
• India
29 May 09
Followers don't give you any benefit? If you follow a blog then whenever a new post is posted in that blog, then you will get email notification for it, so people use it for the blogs which they like to be followed. If you have get the request for it then maybe the other person wants to link exchange or does not know about "Follower" widget clearly or justs wants its readers to see that people are following that blog so it must be good ha ha (many people who starts the blog do this thing he he)..
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@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
29 May 09
Now I am able to understand something about this and as it the direct link between the blogs(Is it not?)this may help the visitors to jump from blog to blog. I have just replied to the friend as that I am following him.Thanks for your clarification and I found this very much useful.
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@diamania (7011)
• Netherlands
29 May 09
It's just to brag on how popular your blog is I think. I mean it doesn't really make it easier to follow a blog easier when you can also bookmark it. I wouldn't really pay attention to it just tell him you'll follow his blog.
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
29 May 09
Just now I replied him as that "OK , I am following you" though I don't know any thing. Hope I will learn more soon about this.Thanks for your response.
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@vaibhavratnaparkhi (170)
• India
30 May 09
"Follower" on a particluar blog means that you keep a watch on the blog and you are updated whenever there is any new activity/post on the blog.
This is really a very helpful feature so that u dont need to keep on visiting the blog to see if there are any new posts.
Also the new updates are automatically displayed in the lower part of the "dashboard section" in blogger.
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
30 May 09
You mean that we don't need to enter our followers blog very often for the updates if any. Is it so? If have have correctly understand correctly then it will be useful .But I am sure about my understanding.Thanks for your response.
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