Comments on: Why Readers Unsubscribe

By: keith

keith — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:50:32 +0000

note about consolidating the plugin and theme releases into daily posts.

i used to read about plugins that sounded interesting when they showed up in my wordpress dashboard “other wordpress news” section. now that it just says “plugins for X day” i don’t even bother clicking anymore.

you might be losing more traffic than you think. having details in the title can be important

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:51:23 +0000

I know for myself someone who posts daily is enough to overwhelm me. I prefer posts to be spaced out every other day or so.

By: What Makes A Good Blog? - Tyler Reed

What Makes A Good Blog? - Tyler Reed — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:23:28 +0000

[...] Content is King This is so very true and still has not changed much over the past year. But how much content is enough to keep bringing users back? The first two reasons why users unsubscribe is because there are too many posts and too little posts (respectively). This means you need find some sort of consistency. I have found proof of that hypothesis in that the daily updates of plugins and themes on weblogtoolscollection.com works best in single consolidated posts. Mark from Weblog Tools Collection. [...]

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Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:29:21 +0000

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By: Brent Hodgson

Brent Hodgson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:45:46 +0000

Great comment by Scoble.

And great work by Darren putting this together. I can’t wait to see what his guest bloggers say while he’s away.

By: Joerg Petermann

Joerg Petermann — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:07:02 +0000

I take the first 10 ten reason and write my comments in a posting. Interesting discussion with german bloggers followed.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:50:36 +0000

The first two were no-brainers, but the third one surprised me. I’d rather get a gist of a post and then choose if I want to read it, rather than getting the full meal deal in my reader. And this brings up an interesting idea: what if WordPress offered two feeds, one with the full content, and one with excerpts? Perhaps a plugin could do that.

By: Wojtek

Wojtek — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:04:22 +0000

Too few posts is self-explanatory and I guess it’s the same with the too many posts bit (although if the content’s good, it’s better to have more than less IMHO). The question is though, how much is “just enough” ? A post - a day? 2 days ? 3 ? Week ?

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:24:18 +0000

I agree totally with the too many posts. Thats some of the reasons I either don’t read the feeds completely, or just knock it off my list.