Blogs I want to follow

Call me superficial but if a blog doesn't have a nice design I move on pretty quickly. And the design doesn't have to be great or complicated, but it has to be personal or make me interested. Many people choose not to have a profile picture and that, in my opinion, is a huge mistake. I don't want to read stories from just anybody, I want to know who the storyteller is. Here are a few things I think is important when you want to catch a reader like me:

• Care about the blog design
• Use images when posting
• Have a profile image and write something short about yourself
• Have categories that are easy to use

I do think that the four above is a good start. Of course I can keep going ... if you want a reader like me to stay a reader then maybe you should also think about this:

• Update at least once a week
• Stick to shorter posts instead of long ones
• Do not only write about one topic (if you don't happen to be a beauty blogger, then I understand that you have your niche)
• Don't do too many sponsored posts or have too many ads

But ... let us be honest with each other, you don't need to do anything of the above. Not really. 

If you started the blog for yourself then who cares if people follow you or not. But then again, many of us start a blog (or an open diary, whatever you want to call it) because we want to touch/effect people somehow. If you want to inspire, effect or reach people then you need some glue – and the glue can be one of the things on my list above, maybe all of them depending on how strong you want your glue to be.

What makes you want to follow a blog?

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Swedish summary:
Egentligen spelar det ingen roll om du har följare eller inte om du ändå skriver för din egen skull. Däremot bloggar vi oftast för att inspirera, påverka eller nå ut till andra och då kan det vara bra att ha ett så kallat "lim". Detta lim kan vara någon av de förslag som finns i min engelska lista ovanför. Du bestämmer själv vad som är syftet med din blogg, men om du vill få någon som mig att läsa din blogg skulle jag rekommendera att kika på listan ovanför.