I’ve often seen this come up on twitter chats as a kind of side chat, how difficult it seems to be to build your following on Bloglovin’. Now I have by no means got tens of thousands, but I have grown my following from under 200 to nearly 900 in just a few months so I thought I’d share some of my secrets and the things I do on a daily basis that I believe have helped!
How to build your following on Bloglovin’
So I’ve had Bloglovin’ since I first started my blog over a year ago, when I looked at my following of a mere 13 in around November of last year I just didn’t get it. I knew more than those 13 read my blog and I had grown quite a following through other social media outlets so there was definitely something I was doing wrong, or wasn’t doing at all.
I set about researching, as my boyfriend has taught me to do with anything I’m not sure on – he believes the internet has all of lifes answers and I do too. I’ve listed below 5 of the super easy things I changed and believe have really helped me and will help you to build your blogs following on Bloglovin’!
share through it
When you promote your blog on twitter – wait, you do promote your blog on twitter don’t you? If not read this post immediately. When you promote your blog posts through twitter, share them via Bloglovin’. This to me is the single and most effective way of building your blogs following.
If you’re a part of the Facebook groups or have a Facebook page, you can also share it there. Sharing through you’re page means your readers are already on your Bloglovin’ page where hitting follow is super easy.
ask at the end of each blog post
Asking for people to follow you is honestly something you should do. I know it’s cringe but you’ll get over it, and you really should because guess what? it works.
I now make a point of asking at the end of each and every blog post for the reader to follow me. This is such a simple step and has worked wonders to build my blogs following on Bloglovin’. Hey, while you’re here, why don’t you follow me on Bloglovin’? – see what I did there?
make a big, eye catching sign
This is something that I came up with myself. I was looking at the teeny weeny Bloglovin’ button one day and thinking how people probably can’t even see it. So I made a sign, a BIG sign to go on the sidebar of my blog – AKA it’s always visible. I’m not sure how other blogging platforms work but I’m on WordPress and I just added it as an image on my widgets and set the link to go directly to my Bloglovin’ page. One click and my following’s building.
ask people to follow you on it through social media
As well as asking at the end of your post and sharing through it on social media, another great way to build your following on Bloglovin’ is to just simply tweet a link to your blogs page with lines such as “looking for a new blog to follow? This one’s pretty amazing” or “for fashion, beauty and blog tips follow . . .” or “Looking for a new fashion blog to follow?” you get the drill.
use it or loose it
You know what they say, use it or loose it. A lot of the trouble with when you build your following on Bloglovin’ is that people ain’t loyal. Well some of them are, I love you loyal readers. But a lot of people don’t continue to follow you if you’re not active, I mean would you follow a page that doesn’t do anything?
I make sure I use my Bloglovin’ not just to maintain my following but also because I genuinely find the app easy to use and love that you can save the posts to boards like on pinterest, so you can go back and read them at a later date. Do remember though, that people follow you because they like your style, so it adds another dimension of their following if they can also see who you follow and read the posts you read.
I hope you guys found these tips helpful, let me know if they help you to build your following on Bloglovin’! You may also like to read my post on building your following using social media and my blogging tips Q&A!
Leave me a comment and let me know what you thought to this post, and feel free to leave me any questions you have that I haven’t answered! Also let me know if there’s another kind of blogging tips post you’d like to see! AND DON’T FORGET TO FOLLOW ME ON BLOGLOVIN’ please!
You can also follow me on Instagram and Snapchat to see what I get up to on a day to day basis! Both usernames are sineadcrowe
Absolutely loved these tips! I’m currently working on increasing my bloglovin following so this definitely came in handy. I never thought about that tiny bloglovin button but you ARE right!
Love, Kerstin
http://www.missgetaway.com/
I know it can get so lost in your side bar!
This post couldn’t have come at a better time, yesterday I was perplexed with all this Bloglovin’ business, I was a mess the whole day! Thank you, for taking the time to help people like me who haven’t the faintest idea x
Myra, myramyla.com
It’s so easy once you get your head round it! I’m glad i could be your saviour!
Thank you for these tips!! I’ve found them really useful xxx
http://fallingforablog.blogspot.com/2016/05/5-outfits-for-spring.html
Glad to hear it lovely, I hope you can put it to good use!
I’ve never thought of making a bigger button! I might have to! Xx
It’s a good idea honestly!
Reminding people that your Bloglovin exists is key. Make it so big they can’t avoid it!
Rachel | http://www.currentlyrachel.com
EXACTLY! haha! Sometimes people need to know they should be following you!
I love Bloglovin but I still need to grow my following. I’m happy that it’s steadily growing though 🙂
Thats great, congrats hun!
Great tips! I really enjoy Bloglovin, and I really find it helps me stay updated with my favorite bloggers. 🙂
xx Nichole
It is so easy to stay up to date! I only read blogs on there!
Bloglovin is my best growing platform and people are always so shocked. On the analytics graph there has never been a drop, just an incline! I’m very active on there though and it’s literally how I read every blog post!
http://www.throughthemirror.co.uk
Yeah I definitely think that it’s a slow builder but there are small changes you can make to grow it faster!
Another really helpful post ! xx
Thanks hun! hope you can put them to good use!
Fab post. Some great, honest tips. 🙂
I definitely agree that small changes make a huge difference. Since I read more into seo and stats and posts like this one and made change son my own, I’ve seen a difference.
Though it’s taken me a lot longer to realise and things to happen than you! Well done! 🙂
Your blog is fab and deserves the following and recognition. 🙂
Caroline.x
Ah thanks so much hun! You’re so kind!!!
Brilliant tips! I’ve been slowly growing my Bloglovin following, after adding the Bloglovin button at the end of every post, but these tips are definitely something I’ll put in use to boost it more. xx
They really help!
Loved reading this! I always use bloglovin, it is the main place I go to read blogs. I will try some of these out and see how they go 🙂 great tips as always!
Thanks hun ! I hope they help you and work well!
I never knew actually asking people to follow at the end of promotion pots worked, may have to try that! Lovely post hun x
Sometimes it’s the most simple things that work the best!
I actually tried this today and it worked! Thankyou so much for helping
So glad it worked for you lovely!!!
great tips hun x
Thanks hun! Glad you liked them!
You are very welcome, they were good ? x
Great post, I never share my blog on Twitter via bloglovin but will have to start!
Ami x
http://www.cranberryandapricot.com
Always, honestly it’s the best way of promoting it! Hope it works for you hun!
Hi Jordan, I make mine on pages! I literally just typed in the writing on dafont.com with a font I liked then took a screenshot and uploaded it as an image to my blog. Then I put it on my sidebar and directed the clickable link to my bloglovin! It was so simple!
I liked this post! I never focus on growing Bloglovin’ but I think I definitely should be! Love your big sign too 🙂 Just followed!
http://www.becboop.com
Ah yay thanks hun! Also the sign is life – make one!
This was a great post to read. My bloglovin’ followers just seems to be stuck on 4! I’m going to adopt these and see how I get on! Challenge Accepted.
Thanks!
http://www.rachel-emily.com
or if anyone want to follow on bloglovin’: https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/rachel-emily-14721487?referrer_context=blog_search_autocomplete
Amazing, i hope they work well for you lovely! Let me know how it works! Also love the bloglovin link at the bottom! You’re doing it already!
These tips are so great! Definitely gonna use the right away (:
Camilla | http://cammi.dk
I hope they work for you lovely!!!
This post is so helpful. I have literally been on the same amount of followers for about the last year. I am going to be using some of these tips.
Alicia x
I hop you find them helpful hun!
Thanks so much, i’ve been really struggling with this and like you just don’t get it. But will use these tips to build my following up again since getting back into blogging. Thank you!
They helped me so so much and they don’t make a huge difference to just posting your blog!
Thank you so much for these amazing tips, I’m planning to start my blog in about a weeks time (when everything in my life has settled down a bit), so having this was such a great help. I might send you a message on one of your social media platforms, and maybe you can tell me what you think of my blog when it’s up?
I know that might be a bit too much too ask lol, but I would just like someone with exprience to give me their input, you know?
Amazing blog btw
Xoxo Moni
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Hello lovely, that’s fine! Of course you can! Good luck with the new blog!
Thanks Sinead for the great tips 🙂 All I can say is watch this space! http://www.theblondeb.com
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I’ll be keeping an eye out!
This was so informative, my blog following has dramatically decreased recently and I’ve been figuring out ways in which to gain traffic back, this was a great help, although you said you find the bloglovin app easy.. Send me some tips I find it so hard to use haha! Maybe I need to have a play around with it Xx .
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What is it that you find hard to use about it?! I think it’s pretty straight forward but I am more than happy to help with any questions hun!
These are really useful tips, which I hope will help me with my Bloglovin’ account. You have a fantastic blog, Sinead! x
http://www.rosie-eva.com
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Ah thanks so much Rosie that’s so so kind of you!!! They boosted mine from 100 to over 1,000 in 6 months! Maybe not a lot to some but for me that is such an achievement so I really hope they work for you too! xx
Twitter is definitely a huge part of getting your blog noticed!
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So so huge! I’m always looking for new retweet accounts to tag and new ways to promote, social media is so ever changing it’s a struggle to keep up sometimes!
great post! I need to start sharing through bloglovin links!
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You definitely do! Honestly it make such a huge difference!
Such a great post. I’ve been working on trying to build my social media following across all platforms and bloglovin was the one I was really struggling with (I literally have 2 followers lol) so your tips have really helped me to understand a bit more how i can use Bloglovin and build a following.
Niamh x
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Seriously hun I hope this helps! I was the same until I started making a few changes!!!
I love all these tips– they’re little things you wouldn’t usually think of doing but help a bunch. Thanks for bringing them to my attention! I’ll definitely be using the Twitter-link-to-bloglovin thing you suggested too as most of my traffic comes from Twitter anyway!
xx Heather | stormywheather.com
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Oh my gosh babe honestly my following was 13 for a year then I started doing these things and got a thousand in 6 months!
I used to ask in every post to follow me and then I stopped and just did it occasionally because yes I thought it was cringy but now I will definitely go back doing it in each post and make my sign bigger :). Thanks for sharing!!
Lea, xx
http://www.asnippetoflife.com
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Yes you totally need to! Glad I helped babe!