34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog
Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why they unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged.
I’ve attempted to categorize them below. Obviously with 103 opinions (and most people giving multiple reasons all in their own words) I’ve had to make some judgement calls in classifying comments left. Some of the categories below have overlap but I think you’ll 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 Continue reading »