My biggest offense is infrequent posting. For this I have a remedy. Post more
frequently.
Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why
they unsubscribe from a blogís RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left
on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged.Iíve attempted to categorize them below. Obviously with 103 opinions (and
most people giving multiple reasons all in their own words) Iíve had to make
some judgement calls in classifying comments left. Some of the categories below
have overlap but I think youíll get a pretty good picture of what motivates
people to unsubscribe from RSS feeds.34 Reasons Why People Unsubscribe from RSS feeds:
- Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) - 37
- Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) - 29
- Partial Excerpts Feeds - 25
- Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) - 23
- Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News) -
19- Uninteresting Content - 16
- Irrelevant Content - 13
- The Bloggerís Ego - Too much self promotion - 11
- Low Quality Content - 11
- Too many posts that are too long - 10
- Negative blogging - 7
- Feed Errors - Especially when a Feed Reloads the latest 10-20 posts every
time - 7- Offensive Content/Personal attacks/Discrimination - 6
- ëinfomercialsí (too much selling) - 6
- Blog Titles that Donít Tell what the post is about - 5
- No or Poor Formatting in posts - 5
- My own interests as a reader change - 5
- No Longer Useful or Valuable - 4
- Too many links in the text and not enough content - 4
- Advertising - 3
- Inconsistent writing (style and focus) - 2
- Too Many Grammatical Errors - 2
- Found other feeds that are better - 2
- Too Narrow a focus - 1
- Too much repetition in topic - 1
- Pushiness of Blogger - 1
- Blogger Doesnít Respond to Comments - 1
- No Images in the feed - 1
- Lack of Confidence or Opinion - 1
- Lack of a sense of who the blogger is - 1
- Too much clutter/extras at the end of posts - 1
- Talking Down to Readers - 1
- Too many quotes - 1
- Change of Primary blogger - 1