34 reasons for readers to unsubscribe from your blog

Translator: William Long, Address: 34 Reasons for readers to unsubscribe from your blog, English original: Reasons Why Readers unsubscribe from Your Blog

A lot of people are thinking about why their readers unsubscribe from their RSS feeds, which summarizes 34 reasons and tries to explain some of the reasons for user unsubscribe and motivation.

34 Users unsubscribe to the RSS feed reason:

1, the article updates too fast (frequent posting leads to user information overload)

2, the article update is too slow (perhaps the blog has stopped updating)

3, RSS feed is the abstract output

4, the blog changed the content of the topic (irrelevant topics too many articles)

5, most of the content in other places have seen (copy or reprint content)

6, there is no interesting content

7. Irrelevant content

8, the author is too self, too self propaganda, boasting

9, poor quality of the content

10. Too many articles in length

11. Negative reports

12, RSS feed error, especially the feed is always overloaded with the last 10-20 articles

13. Offensive content/personal attack/discrimination

14, content commercialization (a large number of sales information)

15, the article title does not explain the main content of the article

16, the content is not typesetting

17, the reader's own interest transfer

18, no longer useful or valuable

19, a lot of links in the article, the content is not enough

20, most of the content is advertising

21. Inconsistent writing (style and emphasis)

22. Too many grammatical errors

23, found that there are other better feeds

24, the sight is too narrow

25. Keep repeating a topic

26. Verbal rudeness

27, the blog does not respond to the comments of the article

28, no pictures

29. Lack of confidence or opinion

30, do not know who this blog is

31, the end of the article too much confusion

32. Comment on readers

33, too many references

34, replaced the original blogger

Here are some of my short comments (I don't want to make a long speech)

The release frequency is obviously an important factor, 35% of respondents said it was because the article published too Fast and unsubscribe, 28% said the article published too slow and unsubscribe. I guess the reason may be that stopping the updated feed doesn't bother the reader (in Google Reader a pattern you won't see the inactive feed unless it's updated).

The output of the digest is not liked, and 24% of respondents said they would unsubscribe from feeds that only output summaries.

The blog changes Research direction and topic is also a focus, 22% of people give up the subscription because of this reason.

What's interesting about the content is that I find that people don't care much about the quality, the content and the nature of the article. The form and number of updates are major factors, and content becomes a secondary factor.