How Many Blog Posts are Too Many?
January 8th 2010 09:16
How many posts per day are too many?
How many posts per day are too few?
And why do people unsubscribe from RSS feeds?
The results from a recent survey may surprise!
In spite of urban myth - almost 60% of people cite too many posts or the over overwhelming nature of posts are the key reasons they unsubscribe from most blogs.
This was followed by 42% of people who say that the infrequent nature of posts is effectively the reason for ditching a particular writer.
Other reasons catagorised by respondents included
* Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) featured in almost 30% of survey replies while redundant, repeated or recycled material, uninteresting or irrelevant content also made the top 5 reasons.
* The blogger’s ego, too much self promotion, low quality content and negative blogging along with offensive content/personal attacks/discrimination, no or poor formatting in posts the pushiness of blogger and talking down to readers also featured highly.
But what about you?
What are the elements that make a blog successful?
How do you measure that success?
Is it a feeling? Blog stats and traffic? Ad clicks? Income?
And what are the elements that make a blog better than another one?
What keeps you coming back to your favorite blogs?
How many posts per day are too few?
And why do people unsubscribe from RSS feeds?
The results from a recent survey may surprise!
In spite of urban myth - almost 60% of people cite too many posts or the over overwhelming nature of posts are the key reasons they unsubscribe from most blogs.
This was followed by 42% of people who say that the infrequent nature of posts is effectively the reason for ditching a particular writer.
Other reasons catagorised by respondents included
* Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) featured in almost 30% of survey replies while redundant, repeated or recycled material, uninteresting or irrelevant content also made the top 5 reasons.
* The blogger’s ego, too much self promotion, low quality content and negative blogging along with offensive content/personal attacks/discrimination, no or poor formatting in posts the pushiness of blogger and talking down to readers also featured highly.
But what about you?
What are the elements that make a blog successful?
How do you measure that success?
Is it a feeling? Blog stats and traffic? Ad clicks? Income?
And what are the elements that make a blog better than another one?
What keeps you coming back to your favorite blogs?
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