I’m not sure why a steady stream of vitamin companies are beginning to follow my blog, but how do I stop them? Can I block followers?
What’s with all of the vitamin companies joining my blog as followers?
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Same here 🤪
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Me three, but I don’t care. I’m not going to visit them tho 🙄
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me neither!
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I get them too. They can follow all they want but I won’t be visiting them.
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Glad I’m not the only one.
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Just thinking that it could be because of your recent aroma posts.
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may be! that’s probably it
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😦
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Six of them following me, Li! 🙄
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Same with me! Why?
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Me, too.
I’m thinking. As long as they don’t spam, I give them the benefit of the doubt.
It may be key-words that attract them – if they are bots. Or it may be people who work for vitamin companies and tell each other about great blogs they found … 😉 (yeah, sure, but hey, you never know…) 😉
If someone gave me an eerie feeling I WOULD look to remove them and there is a way to do that.
Click on the “my sites” list on the tab next to the “reader” tab. Go to “manage” then to “people” then to “followers” — you’ll see the list of followers. You can remove one by one those you don’t feel comfortable following you.
Hope this helps.
Na’ama
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Very helpful information, Na’ama, thank you. I will let them be for now, but if they start any spamming, etc, I’ll show them the door 🙂
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My p!easure… I did wonder what the vitamin proliferation was about, too… 😁
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IS I was literally just followed by yet another vitamin! Like, now! Donnow what number it is. 7-8?
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Mine also…
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I’ve had that too!
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And me! It’s funny isn’t it! I wonder if their theory is to follow as many blogs as possible in the hopes of return follows. I have seen them following me, I have not seen any evidence they are reading my posts!
If you are going to be a pretend follower…you need to learn the art of liking and throwing generic comments around like “great post”. Then we might think they actually read our stuff! Grr!
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lmao, Caramel. I’m imagining a line of giant pills following each of us around. I wonder if they jump into bottles to sleep at night?
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bear in mind that your posts will probably be public,so they’ll probably trawl new posts for keywords. I don’t know enough about WordPress, but I know there used to be jobs doing this kind of thing of e.g. Twitter. I still see job adverts looking for WordPress developers, and they can’t all just be writing new themes for us. Sounds like it happens to everyone else too.
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Thank you for the info, (insert your name here). I knew there had to be some less-than-ethical reason for it.
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Me too – I think it was the Magic Mushrooms 😉
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LOL Chris!
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Too funny!
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Isn’t that annoying?! I usually remove them from my followers.
“Get out of here” I gleefully say and I click and delete. 😉
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I think I’ve had a couple of them also; didn’t bother me at all – a reader is a reader – but I did find it surprising, wondered why they came across my material.
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Yes Lisa. I have had a slew of them follow me and just had another add yesterday. They all have the same pics and format with slightly different names. Must be bots, but why a poetry site???? Beats me.
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