How many leaders are there in the blogging world? Do you think you’re one of them? Well, no matter what you think, if there were no leaders then there would be no followers. But without followers, there would be no leader, am I right?

So we have all heard of the big name bloggers before, who hasn’t? I mean, their names are only mentioned about 2,365,029 times a day. Well, maybe not that much but that’s how it feels sometimes, huh? But just like leaders, they were also once followers.

It doesn’t mean they’re not innovators in their own way, but at some point in time, they were once a follower. Then they learned and they conquered… the blogging world.

So, what does that tell you? You, me, us, we’re all followers at some point in time. That has to be true. It could be looking up to one of your parents and wanting to follow in their footsteps or reading Problogger.net and wanting to make money online. I mean, seriously, how many people have money-making blogs now because they saw someone else do it? It’s not easy, I can tell you that!

But with the leaders and followers, the same thing can be applied to the numbers on people’s blogs. If you see 15,000 RSS feed subscribers of a particular blog, do you know how many people would just follow the crowd and subscribe because the blog HAS to be just that damn good.

Just like week, quiet a few people had RSS feed spikes in their numbers which probably shot up more than ten times as many as they had the previous day. Now the numbers are back to normal, but the numbers still went up in general, right? Yes, because there were those handful of people that saw how popular your site was, based on your RSS feed subscribers, and they decided to do the same – subscribe. (This is not a subliminal message but, um, please subscribe to my RSS Feeds, thanks!)

In addition, great stats with blogs are more motivation for people to try to overtake those numbers. It’s just like any record-holder - whether it’s surpassing the single-season touchdown record or becoming the fastest man on earth - those records are made to be broken.

Just the thought of a friendly competition like “hey, I can get more RSS feed subscribers than him/her” or “he/she’s number one in Technorati?! Well, not for long!”

So when it comes down to it, if your stats are great, you will have followers. Whether it’s followers as competition or followers to slip into your footsteps, you’re a leader.

But keep in mind; leaders are just as important as the followers and vice versa. So, feel free to follow because you’ll end up leading sooner than later.

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