Overview
Your steemit readership growth will eventually determine your success as a steemit blogger. This is not different from what happens in conventional blogging. Your readership is your traffic in conventional blogging. In steemit, your readership are your potential upvoters and resteemers. Going by this, it then means that any step taken towards growing and maintaining readership of any steemit blog is a sure way of growing the blog.
What is readership?
Simply put, 1 a : the office or position of a reader b : the quality or state of being a reader
2: the mass or a particular group of readers e.g a magazine's readership1
Going by the above definition of readership, it is obvious that your readership is not necessarily your followership. This is where the problem of most bloggers in steemit come from especially minnows that are in a hurry to make it. Assuming that all that followed you are necessarily interested in what you blog about is a wrong assumption that has frustrated many.
There are so many ways to grow followership in steemit. Many of these ways are not organic and they end up getting the wrong followership. When you travel to steemit.chat and meet mostly minnows asking for follow for follow or engaging in other means of acquiring followership that is inorganic, you will understand the craze for followership.
Unfortunately, what these group of followership hunters do not know is that it makes no sense acquiring a followership that will just come and occupy space without actually adding any value to your blog.
Why so?
The reason is not far fetched. When you go to a place like steemit.chat or discord and beg people with different interest to add you, you end up getting people who are not interested in what you are interested in. They did not add you because they read your article and was pleased and therefore didn't want to miss another edition. They added you because they responded to a gesture of adding for adding or a plea for them to add you.
Result
When you grow a followership that is not readership, you get more frustrated because you will still be as if you have no followers. When you publish an article, you are not likely to have any of them read it neither are you going to get the expected upvotes and resteems from such followership. An organically acquired followership are more likely to form your readership base!!!
The way Forward
Get followership organically. It may not bring a drastic growth to your followership base but it will likely bring the right people. Let people add you in their own volition after reading your article. If they did, because they loved what you wrote in an article they read, it is more likely that they will like another article from you and are more likely to upvote you or resteem your subsequent posts.
Conclusion
Follow for follow and begging for following does not improve your steemit experience. It pays you to concentrate in writing quality articles that will attract the right followers. Engage them with further articles and good commenting. Make them like you and what you do in steemit. Care for them. This is the only way to get quality followerhsip that will translate to readership.
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Reference
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/readership 1
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