Hello all, so as you can see from the title, something that I've realised after entering my second month on Steemit, is that gaining more followers won't get you more upvotes.
Of-course this information could be entirely misleading as I'm only talking about in my personal experience, so do let me know if you guys have also found the same thing.
Now realistically we all want as many upvotes as we can get on all our posts, as we put a lot of effort and time into them. Upvotes are a system of pay back, or in other words a reward.
Now I have nearly 280 followers - which seems like a lot, however the average number of upvotes I get for most of my posts is under 10. So what happened to the other 270 of my followers?
You may be posting perfectly good and interesting content, yet you just aren't reaping the rewards that you'd hoped to. So I've compiled a list of all the reasons why your followers aren't upvoting your content:
A lot of people create their Steemit accounts and follow other people specifically for followers. They do not care about their content, they just want them to follow them back. This is mostly in the case of newbies, people who also often quit Steemit when they haven't made much more than a dollar after being on the platform for a week. Of-course they're not going to upvote your content because they haven't logged onto Steemit and are not planning on doing so any time soon. (Of-course this is only a select few people, I'm by no means trying to accuse anyone or all new comers of doing this.)
Your followers might not have seen your content. A lot of people have so many followers posting content every day. With so many blogs to read, they might not have had time to scroll down far enough to read your most recent post. A good way to make sure more people view worthy posts is to resteem them. Obviously you can't resteem everything you read, so make sure that when you do it, it's a post that will benefit and be interesting for the Steemit community.
Your followers might have used up all their upvote power for the day. I'm not sure what the exact number of upvotes you're allowed per day, but I know that it's not too many. For that reason you probably have a better chance of getting upvotes on your blog if you post in the morning. By the evening people might have used up all their upvoting power for the day, and despite how good your content might be, they cannot upvote it.
This last one is probably the most obvious one of all. People might not be upvoting your content simply because it doesn't interest them. If you're writing about a variety of different topics, your followers may choose to upvote specific ones and not others. It doesn't mean that some of your posts are better than others (although they might be), it just shows that everyone has different hobbies and interests and realistically not everyone is going to like what you're writing.
I hope you all found that post interesting and helpful. If you have any more questions make sure to ask them in the comments and I'll try my best to answer them. Please upvote, follow and resteem this post as it would really help me out. Thanks so much for reading and have a lovely day everyone. :)
