Darren Rowse conducted a poll recently among his readers on reasons why they would unsubscribe from a feed.

The one main reason I would unsubscribe is when the bulk of the content of a feed becomes less than relevant to me. I won’t list all 34 reasons Darren’s readers came up with. Here are the top ones.

• Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming)
• Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead)
• Partial Excerpts Feeds
• Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting)
• Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News)
• Uninteresting Content
• Irrelevant Content
• The Blogger’s Ego - Too much self promotion
• Low Quality Content
• Too many posts that are too long

Tags: RSS

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