Why can't blogspot's blogs easily follow me as a wordpress user?

picturesaftercoffee · Member · Apr 4, 2015 at 9:22 pm
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I want to know why can’t blogspots easily follow me if they want and why don’t I receive the notification when they do??? Because I feel I losing followers because of this…. Thank you.

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doncharisma · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 9:00 am
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Someone will surely correct me if I’m wrong on this, but …

blogspot is owned and run by Google.
wordpress.com is owned and run by Automattic

They are two separate platforms, owned and managed by competing companies. This is why “blogspots” can’t “easily” follow you, because identities are managed differently on each platform.

As for notifications you will receive them from WordPress.com when a WordPress.com or email follower follows you.

As for a follower via RSS (or Atom) my understanding is that this can’t be tracked by WordPress.com so you won’t receive a notification of people following you in this way. See https://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/ for more details.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Don Charisma
raincoaster · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 9:20 am
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You’re not wrong.

The OP should use a Follow widget which offers email subscriptions too.
doncharisma · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 11:38 am
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That’ll be this one – https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

Thanks @raincoaster

Cheers

Don Charisma
picturesaftercoffee · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 8:41 pm
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Well, I understand what you are saying, but i can easily follow a blogspot. Not by email but through my Reader on wordpress…

I do offer the “follow by email” but that’s not the most practical way of doing it… So I dont feel like im offering the best platform for people to follow my blog.

But, anyway, thanks for the tip.

Bárbara Oliveira
raincoaster · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 10:02 pm
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That’s because the WordPress reader is good, and the Blogspot reader, ie Google Reader, was cancelled a couple of years ago.
timethief · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 10:06 pm
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Google took over Feedburner a few years ago.
doncharisma · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 10:13 pm
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You’re welcome Bárbara Oliveira :)

Plus thanks @raincoaster & @timethief

Cheers

Don Charisma

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