How Do You Prevent Your Readers To Get Bored?
Every now and then, I notice people unsubscribing from my blog. There may be many reasons for that, one more serious than the other. As I don’t run a highly focused blog, I suppose that those people subscribed following a post which tackled a topic they were interested in, and now, seeing that I don’t write about that topic again, they unsubscribe.
Nevertheless, I think that another reason for somebody stopping reading a blog is just because it may be too focused, too serious, too narrow. I’m talking here especially about blogs about blogging, which tend to take a piece of info or advice (which may be good, I don’t argue that) and twist it, rephrase it, rewrite it, day after day, month after month, until everything starts looking like “deja-vu”, like in the Groundhog Day movie.
I’ve already seen blogs which try to prevent reader boredom. Some of them do it by participating in memes, others try to make readers think whether boredom is a friend or a foe, while others just discover the benefits of interruptions in work by using AntiRSI, a software which will force you to have a break from your computer activities at fixed intervals.
I did not pay too much attention to my readers’ boredom, maybe because I was not aware of it.
Do you think your readers get bored? Are you doing anything to prevent that?
pearl says...
well said Simonne.. I’m not sure about my readers but I’m definitely getting bored of reading the same things about blogging.. do this to get more RSS subscribers or do that for getting more traffic… May be thats the reason I can’t post that often either these days, I feel everything I want to write has already been written gazillion different ways. So, unless I have a group writing project (a specific subject to post about) or a brand new idea about blogging, I feel I cannot write anything. No wonder my subscriber counts are not increasing
thanks for linking up with me..
Simonne says...
You are welcome, Pearl. I’m glad to see that we think alike. My subscriber counts are not increasing, either
Andrew Rickmann says...
Simonne, I think I may be approaching a plateau with my reader count. I hope they don’t get bored but it is really difficult to find interesting things to say and do.
The problem is balancing consistency with variation, if someone subscribes for a reason, and you never touch it again they will leave, likewise too little difference has the same effect.
Simonne says...
Yes, Andrew, subscribers can be difficult to handle. You cannot please all of them, nor should you try that, unless you want to be sad for the rest of your blogging life.
Ronald Huereca says...
Simonne, you must have been reading my mind with this post. I’ve been contemplating how to increase the subscriber count here and hope some “events” and design changes here will help things out.
Simonne says...
Hey Ronald, I also hope that. After all, there are soa many people who have readers, that we have a good potential for growth.