Comments on: What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed?

By: Search engine optimization

Search engine optimization — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:00:22 +0000

1. When the author becomes too money minded (Sending me advertisements saying this is great and that is great. )
2. No posts for at least 2 weeks
3. One day the blogger blogs about the internet and the next day he reviews a movie he saw
4. The contents is crap
5. Is the blogger voicing his own opinion or just posting like “Darren said so, i think he is right. Dave taylor said so, i think he is wrong”

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:56:01 +0000

I unsubscribe if the blogger inappropriately uses video posts.

Video posts have a time and place, but too many bloggers are using them just for the sake of using them! A text post is easier to skim through, and I hate having to sit through a video post, hoping the interesting part is yet to come…

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By: recip

recip — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:40:27 +0000

I unsubscribe for the same reason I subscribe. The same thing we keep coming back to as the major thing that makes a blog popular…

IT’S THE CONTENT STUPID. (No offence intended).

By: my opinion

my opinion — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:44:45 +0000

When either the content is stale or continuously being updated as if there is nothing else better to do or if the content is just plain boring and pointless.

By: Voice Of Dingchao

Voice Of Dingchao — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:46:36 +0000

For me, there are two reasons whether I unsubscribe from a blog’s rss feed or not, they are: good content or bad content, update often or not. These are the main reasons.

So what I am doing is making my blog be useful to my readers and updating it everyday.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:04:48 +0000

I would definitely say inactivity is the main reason for me to unsubscribe. I don’t mind “too many posts” as long as it’s information that I find interesting. I blog all day so I’m always at the computer checking this and that. It’s no big thing for me to go through “a lot” of posts.
If the posts are about money or business and a totally different topic comes up like say, politics (and if I hate the posters politics) then off it goes.

One of the main things that will keep me subscribed is if the blogger contributes his own insights. That to me is real value.

By: Kirk Warren

Kirk Warren — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:57:20 +0000

1 – Partial Feeds kill blogs on my RSS. I have my feeds so I can read all my sites in one place. Not so I have to go click your blog to read the rest. If I wanted that I would not have subscribed and just did it the old fashioned way. This is an automatic unsubscribe

2 – Too many updates. I like Engadget, but it’s disheartening to miss a day or two and see like 30+ posts waiting for me. Add other random high post count feeds and I just don’t even want to read. While they may be good posts or give me news as it happens, I rather have a quality overview later with less frequent updates on every tiny detail.

3 – Change of focus. If I’m reading a blog on Video Games, I dont want it switched to a tech blog focus or have random posts on movies and favourite TV shows. Stay on topic or start a new blog. Good once in a while or if it’s tangently related, like a video game movie in this case. Not if its completely out of the blue though.

4 – Drop in quality. If it’s a different writer or they sell / merge the blog or just randomly starts declining due to not enough time or whatever personal reason of the blogger.

5 – No new posts / change in posting frequency. If you posted every Mon/Wed/Fri, dont change to every Monday only or start posting 3 times a day. Same with length of posts. 200 words or 1000 words. Keep it consistent.

By: Richard Herbert

Richard Herbert — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:53:25 +0000

Bad Content, off topic and too much advertising in short.

No need to clarify.

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By: Baxter Tocher

Baxter Tocher — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:46:39 +0000

The real killer for me is partial feeds. I know why people do it, but if I subscribe to a feed and it’s only an excerpt, I’ll unsubscribe immediately.

On posting frequency, like others, I have Google Reader set to only show unread articles. There are probably feeds in there that haven’t had any new content for over a month. But if the quality’s good, I’ll keep them subscribed.

By: Fredrik Gyllensten

Fredrik Gyllensten — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:37:48 +0000

1. To many post (i don’t like more then one post a day)
2. No content with value for me

By: Ross Gordon

Ross Gordon — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:38:15 +0000

I think it comes down to the fact that there are only so many blogs that one person can keep up with. Since there are always new blogs popping up there are always new things grabbing your attention away from other blogs you used to read.

I personally find that i go in cycles. I’ll be really into a few blogs. As i finder newer, different blogs, i start reading less of the blogs i started with. Then something may happen that reminds me of an older blog i used to read and i’ll go back and catch up. The cycle seems to repeat itself.

If people start trying to police their own posts then the content becomes less real. The blogger may not say what he or she really wants to. They may force themselves to say something they don’t want to. It should not be a formula.

Having said all that, i think infrequent posts are what really kill blogs. I’ve seen it happen to one of my blogs. But i just didn’t have the time to keep posting. What can ya do?

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:47:50 +0000

Greetings all – At the end of the day us humans are a fickle bunch and require so many different inputs to keep us happy. This was a wonderful post and attracted many responses. A blog is a form of electronic book, if we are to keep readers interested a book approach could be a good analogy.
Compelling and waiting for the next page with anticipation, imagination going wild at being able to express it’s self.

Blogs are an awesome read in this day and age, think about your readers, write for them not for you, challenge thinking and be opinionated.

Only through reading, writing and continual development can we move forward, forever in the pursuit of more knowledge.

Live write be happy. Most of all have

a b l o g g i n g good day :)

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