Day 10.
Don’t link drop!
Do you know what I mean by link dropping?
I’m not talking about leaving your links where you are responding to a challenge or prompt, or even when you are at a blog party, where you are invited to leave a link to a particular post…
No, I mean when you visit other blogs, desperate for followers, and you type ‘Nice post!’ (Always a no no, see yesterday’s tip!) then your own blog link, or a ‘Please follow me!’ plea!
These types of comments always put me off, because a blogger hasn’t attempted to interact with me, allowing me to get to know them a little better. Often, if someone has been commenting regularly, I’ll click their Gravatar and check their blog out myself, to see whether their content is something I would want to read.
If it is, I will follow myself. If not, I won’t.
No offence to that blogger, but I’m sure they’d rather have meaningful interactions, rather than empty likes…
But often, a link drop will either get ignored, edited, or if a repeat offender, binned!
And I think I speak for a lot of seasoned bloggers when I give this particular tip…
Of course, if I have asked for your links, then by all means leave them!
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