You have just got finished writing a great post. You pat yourself on the back right before hitting the post button. You have a smirk on your face as you think of how good an author you are.
2 hours later you come back to see 0 likes and the only comment you have is from some bot named wang.
"^%%# asdfghjkl" you yell, "What did I do wrong?"
Don't beat your self up, it could happen to anyone. Well, anyone that is not a whale with a following of bot-whales.
Here are a list of things that could have went wrong. This list is not exclusive.
- You picked a bad time of day.
- Your great post got dwarfed by one or many greater posts around it.
- There are already a large number of recent popular posts on same subject(introductions for example).
- Your post is not great as you think it is.
- People suspect you are a bot, or a fake.
- You did not use any images.
- Everyone got eaten by squirrels.
Regardless of whether your post does well or not, keep trying to create better content. Try to make each post better than the last. It will always be there, forever, for anyone to come across. Create a portfolio of wonderful content, and who knows, maybe some day it will have way more value than you could ever have imagined.
Disclaimer: Sometimes the author of this post thinks he knows what he is talking about when he really has no idea.