It's Not Important That I Have 3000 Followers on Steemit. What's Important is How They Became My Followers!
When I achieved the first 100 followers, I was excited. When I reach my first 1000 followers, I was so excited that I gifted 5 SBD to one lucky winner. My next aim was to share an update on 1500 followers but when I thought of writing a post, the count had already exceeded 1600. Then I waited for the figure of 2000 but same happened. My posts started exploding and so did the count of my followers. Both 2000 and 2500 milestones were passed in a flash.
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I am finally doing it on achieving the milestone of 3000 followers. This post will serve more as an educational guide on how to gain followers than just a celebration post. I remained slightly inactive for two days now so the number of followers increased steadily. I am thankful because I was able to capture the beautiful moment.
Is It Really an Achievement?
But is it an achievement worth being proud of? Not really! Well, it is a great achievement but not under some circumstances. Some of the circumstances under which having a huge following—and this is my opinion based on experience—are listed below.
You follow 18,000 random people, and 3000 of them follow you back.
You join some crappy follow4follow groups to get some following.
You have high SP in your wallet but never post anything. Since you never post, having a following doesn't matter to you.
You beg people to follow you (rookie mistake) and people who are doing worse than you follow you and ask you to follow back. Both parties gain a significant but useless folliwing.
My very early views about blind and mass following are recorded here. I loved reading what I wrote 7 months ago because I don't feel even a word needs to be changed. It's a good advice if you are just beginning here on Steemit.
How Did I Get This Much Following?
It is not easy to get followers when you are not directly trying to get followers. By direct efforts, I mean requesting people to follow back etc. I do not do that. Most of my following has been indirect.
Here's a quick summary of how I got so many followers.
- I create a valuable post.
- People read it and appreciate it. If it's useful, they resteem it.
- More people see my post. If they find my content useful, they follow me.
I have always focused on writing good content; content which is of some value to others. At this point in time, I am using following criteria to create content.
First and foremost, my content should be valuable for my readers (followers or not). But it should not contradict with the point number two below.
Secondly, the content should be beneficial to the Steemit ecosystem. It should bring good results for the Steem blockchain. For example, this post is less like a celebration and more like an educational guide on how to gain a good following. It improves the system.
If I am covering a Steem based app or a Steemit based service, the post should benefit that app or service as well, because the service enhances Steemit experience.
Ultimately, the content should help me gain recognition, following, and rewards. It is the least consideration on my list. Generally, fulfilling the three conditions above automatically fulfills this one.
Lately, I have been strictly following this criterion and my content has brought massively positive results regarding all the points mentioned above. I do not wish to go into details of what has happened with my recent posts. You might have seen the $300, $400, $500 and $600+ rewards on my posts during the last three months.
But did you see the number of views and comments on them? Do you know that my following has been increasing at the rate of more than a hundred followers per day? Do you know that on average, making one post took more than ten hours spread over many days? You cannot appreciate the increase in my following if you do not take into account the amount of effort involved, the level of quality delivered and the number of people served with massively useful knowledge.
A Bit by Bit Recap of Followers
Thanks to my excitement for getting new followers, I have so much saved on my blog and device in form of posts and screenshots. I am going to bring all the memories back for me and record them on the blockchain forever. I hope you will enjoy going through my little milestones. You will also observe an increase in reputation score and the number of posts all along.
Let's begin.
I shared the first milestone here.
After getting 100 followers, I received 116 % increase in followers in just 4 days.
Reached this milestone on 24 Dec, 2017.
And within a month, the next 500 were done.
22 Jan, 2018
And just in 10 days, the next 500 were up too.
Right now, the count is nearing 3100. I hope to be active now and deliver the value I always believe in delivering. Right now, I have only one active post in last seven days because I could not do much about Steemit lately. With hard work and dedication, my followers have more than doubled in less than two months. I am thankful to each one of you any kind of support on the way.
I hope you enjoyed going through my sweet little journey. I love every bit of it and I like to celebrate these little things with great joy. Part of the reason I am followed by people is that I have shared a lot of content of education value for my followers. I am attaching it below to help people learn whatever they may be looking for.
As a standard feature of all my posts, I am listing all my previous work to help people find the required information or guidance. As I write more and update the previous work to add more value, the list will keep evolving. Feel free to share with people who need it; especially new members.
Newbie Guides
- An Absolute Beginner's Steemit FAQ : Welcoming & Familiarizing New Users - Steemit Newbies Guide
- How to Add Profile Picture on Steemit - Steemit Profile Picture Latest Guide 2018
- Newbies Tutorial - The 3 Post Formatting / Editing Options on Steemit
- 9 Steps Checklist for Creating Successful & Engaging Steemit Posts
- 9 Ways to Choose The Perfect Niche for Your Steemit Blog!
- How to Create an Attractive Post Thumbnail for Your Steemit Blog Posts!
- Steemit Earning Guide Series for Frustrated Minnows & Newbies - Comment, Comment, Comment!!!
- Know Your Exact Reputation, Vote Worth, Latest Upvotes and Rewards
- Things You Should Stop Doing Immediately!
- Why Follow for Follow Sucks!
Steem Guides
- How to Buy Steem from Internal Currency Market
- How to Buy Steem from External Exchanges
- Things You Can Do with Steemit Earnings
- Complete Steemit Withdrawal Guide - Learn How to Withdraw from Steemit
Steemit Tips & Advice
- Are You Earning & Interacting Enough on Steemit?
- 15 Practical Steemit Tips Which Will Ensure Your Success
- 7 Steemit Tips for Steemians Based on My Personal Lessons
- 3 Valuable Life Lessons and How You Can Apply Them for Your Steemit Success!
- Rome was Not Built in a Day and Neither will be Your Steemit Blog!
Advanced Understanding of Steemit
- Understanding Steemit : Learn About Steem Economy & Currencies Powered By The Steem Blockchain!
- Understanding Steemit : Know How Steemit Reward System Works and How Rewards Are Distributed!
- Understanding Steemit : What is Steemit Reputation Score, How is It Calculated and Why Should We Bother?
Steem Ecosystem Guides (Services Empowering Steemians)
- How to Use GINAbot and Get Seamless Steemit Notifications for Free!
- How to Use eSteem App, A Steem App with Amazing Features
- How to Use MinnowBooster - 7 MinnowBooster Services You Should Know About!
- How to Use SmartSteem - A Vote Selling/Buying Service You Can Benefit From & Other Investment Opportunities!
- How to Use SteemVoter to Automate Voting and Maximize Curation Rewards!
- How to Use Combination of BlockTrades and Litecoin to Convert Steem/SDB to Bitcoin
If you have any question, do share it in the comments. It would be kind of you to support this post through your valuable upvotes and resteems. Helping this post with upvotes will not only benefit the community at large but also will encourage me to put more effort into educating Steemians to create a better ecosystem on Steemit.
Steem on!
I am happy to see you reached this milestine and this is all due to your hardwork.
I am almost following the same pattern and reaching 2200 followers. More of my followers have come through communication and interacting with them.
Since I have started posting better valuable contents and joined adsactly my followers are increasing at brisk speed.
I find this post to be really motivating and educating in so many ways, I did include it in my week's recap post of today!
I am also posting daily and what interests me more is the interaction I have with my friends and the mutual value & empowerment for all of us here.
Dear @ilyastarar I am thinking of finding some time and start translating some of your guides in Greek, can you please advise how we can be in contact or how I could start (possible till the end of this month, if all goes well?)
Yes! super inspiring !
Posts celebrating follower milestone usually don't interest me. And that's for the reasons you mention in your post. If they came about because the person followed 10,000+ themselves, or follow4follow etc. What value is there?
Seems you have created value, and the followers are linked directly, so congrats are deserved.
The number of views and comments is still my number one yard stick on whether there is growth of not. Anyway, keep producing quality, and all the best for your journey towards 5000 followers :)
@ilyasatarar, such a lovely piece you put out there. Just new on steemit and this post might just be "it" for it. it's not about the number really but the value you are giving out.
i am going to live by that principle.
Begging for followers is not honorable and i am glad i learnt that early in my steemit journey.
Thanks for putting this out here
Thank you for addressing something for many new users of steemit. I am a new user, I read many of your introductory guides, yet I still made many of the mistakes you described here.
Trouble is, it is easy to make those mistakes when you start, but it is hard to undo. When I started, I randomly followed people, but the most annoying thing about it is that basically destroys your personal feed. It becomes filled up with junk useless content, and then the primary reason for using steemit (at least for me) which is reading quality content, is lost.
Now I have started to mute people, started to un-follow people, only a couple of weeks into it and it is already a tiring task. I decided, better do it now than later.
Give yourself the most credit for your content
Focusing on Steem helps becuase a lot of us want to learn, but the fact that it’s useful and practical is really what’s driving your success.
You deserve it brother.. not many people on steemit reach this level and you have done it in an impressive way.. remember i told you to make your 3000 follower post way before you hit 3000 ? Because i knew that the kind of content you dish out, you will wake up one morning and you would have gone from 2700 to 3000 in no time.
Best of luck for the future endeavours and steem on, our favourite steemit teacher..
blessings
That's such an awesome post, thank you very much! I'M so grateful for having people here on Steemit who provide such useful and helpful content. Thank you very much!
Congratulations my dear friend @ilyastarar. You deserve it and more. You know how we became friends cos one of your posts I read helped me while I was a newbie. Send some sbd let's pop some champagne 😁😁
Ooo wooww...I can see you really went through a lot before reaching this milestone...steemians need to create and post good contents and it will really fetch them more followers and upvotes than to be begging for votes ..
That is an incredible achievement, I hope to do the same someday! You provide awesome info though, so it’s well deserved! I’m still trying to get used to creating content! This is all new to me.
Many Congratulations for another quality milestone here. I explored your blog and noticed that not only your pots worth-reading but followers are too loyal with you. That's what you achieved by doing aforementioned things. Applause!! :)
Thanks a ton for giving your best tips. ;)