34 Reasons Why People Unsubscribe from RSS feeds:

This is a must read for anyone that keeps a blog.

While it cannot be treated as gospel as the sample isn’t random it does provide some great insight as to why readers cancel their subscriptions to feeds. I suspect a lot of this is also applicable to the blog itself and not just the RSS feed.

Their are some genuine surprises such as too high a posting frequency along with the more expected ones such as blog not focused enough.

Many of the items cancel each other out, e.g. too frequent posting/not posting often enough and lack of focus/too tight a focus all appear.

The original post is heavily commented and they are all worth reading for further insight.

By my count I break 12 of the rules on the list but that is OK (in some instances at least) as if there is a message in all this, it is that a blogger cannot please everyone all of the time.