Follow-for-Follow Strategy: The Good and The Bad
A move you should consider carefully
Not long ago, I got introduced to a method or a hack I read on Medium about how you can get your 100 followers fast and in a short time.
The method is called the follow-for-follow strategy. It’s a hack for people who desperately want followers on their medium blog.
Writers also used this hack or method to have their medium blog accepted in the Medium Partner Program. A requirement one must fulfill in order to get payments for their articles.
With that being said, is a follow-for-follow strategy good for growing your audience? What’s the impact on your blog? And how do you know it will be good or bad?
Below is the explanation you should be aware of and analyze with details. Let’s start from the good side of this method or hack.
The Good of Using Follow for Follow Strategy
The follow-for-follow strategy comes in handy if you consider a shortcut route of getting followers and being accepted in the Medium Partner Program to get paid.
I can say that it is absolutely creative. It shows that writers are creative people, and therefore, proven by the follow-for-follow method.
This is a legitimate and legal way to gain followers without breaking any rules written on the platform.
Let’s say, you just open your medium account and write one or two stories, but you are impatient to get paid for your articles.
Just connect with other writers and ask them for a following and after they follow you, you will follow them back.
It’s also a great way to bond with other aspiring writers in the community and the platform since you already reach and talk to them.
The Bad of Using Follow for Follow Strategy
This is the tough part.
There will be consequences for every action, right?
After I carefully analyze and thoroughly think, I see more of the bad than the good “if” I would apply this method or hack to gain followers and get paid for my articles.
First, your audience is not pure. What I meant by pure is that they are never genuinely interested in your writings.
Having an interested reader or audience who truly loves your works is important. For me, it’s more of a foundation one must build to thrive in the future endeavor.
Second, you will not appreciate your audiences and readers. Considering how easy it is for you to find them and make them follow you, you’ll likely undervalue them.
Treating them as a mere follower, not a friend or a writing peer. Your value is determined by numbers, not by the people who truly enjoy your writings.
Third, whenever you write, you focus on making clickbait titles and shallow content, not giving knowledge and wisdom.
Since you know the effortless trick to gain followers and payment, why should you give more?
Just create another hack. Easy.
It’s like finding huge amounts of money in a short amount of time. The time you get the huge money in a short time, you’ll likely become lazier to make money the hard way or lengthy-time (if the short or easy way is not working).
Conclusion
It is always good and bad in every action we take. Follow-for-follow as a method to gain followers and payment in a short time has its own negative and positive effects.
Depending on what course you’re going to, you’ll know if it’s bad or good for you. Knowing if something is having the bad and the good is a wise approach to understand what it feels like to start from the bottom.
Whether you use the follow-for-follow strategy or not is entirely up to your decision. You set the course on your writing journey. Make sure to calculate everything before actually applying it in real-time.
