Why don't I get any more followers

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  rebbeccadevitt · Member · Mar 27, 2015 at 11:03 pm

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  Hi there,
  I’m having a bit of trouble. I don’t seem to be getting any more followers. I’ve had this problem for a couple of months.
  I tried out the ‘Follow’ button with a friend. She clicked on it and it did nothing. Then she tried refreshing the page. Eventually after a while she was able to follow, but it makes me think there must be something wrong with the button.
  It’s just that I was getting quite a few followers…and then nothing for two months!
  What do you reckon?
  Thanks!!!
  Rebbecca

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  timethief · Member · Mar 27, 2015 at 11:21 pm

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  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

  These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
  Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

  Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

  We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  To enable social networking sharing buttons below your post see
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=sharing+buttons
  results here http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

  See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/

  You can also use Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 27, 2015 at 11:22 pm

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  It takes time and effort to build a collection of unique content, to promote it, and to attract followers. It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.

  It is commenting on other blogs with similar content that encourages traffic to flow to your own blog and I believe this will help you Finding Blogs with Similar Content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/

  See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/

  If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.

  See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/

  These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

  If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

  6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/

  7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/

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  rebbeccadevitt · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 3:49 am

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  Hi there,
  I understand all that you’ve said, only I don’t know why I had,say five followers in one day (and similar to that before that), and then not have any after two months.
  Is there a possibility the search engines have blocked more something.
  Thanks
  Rebecca