Comments on: What They Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Them

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:47:05 +0000

How do you tell how many feed readers you have?! Can you only do that with feedburner? 125? That’s a lot of dedicated people! Hehe

Perhaps all your readers went away for the weekend? It’s always a possibility….

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:14:03 +0000

Good question. I try to schedule posts ahead if I know ahead of time I will be gone so noone will even notice, but that isn’t always possible.

If you go a few days without blogging, your RSS subscribers go down for various Feedburner reasons. Once you post again, your subscribers should jump back to normal.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:45:19 +0000

it’s true Sibz… it’s good to have you back!

now you can tell us really what happened at the weekend… was rhys chasing the men again!?

By: Sibz

Sibz — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:27:23 +0000

Well, obviously nobody visited because they subconciously knew I was also away from last Friday until today (Weds) so without my input in the comments, the posts are barely worth reading

By: Han

Han — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:26:28 +0000

If I told people the real reason I wasn’t blogging (or rather wasn’t in the mood for blogging) I’d get stupid “aw” comments that irritate me.

You know what I’m talking about.

By: Jem

Jem — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:06:50 +0000

I don’t see the point in telling people if I’m not going to be available to blog from X point in time to Y, because even when I am around I don’t blog every day anyway. That said, if I were going away for something like a week I’d probably let a few people know so my readers don’t think I’m dead.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:34:30 +0000

I don’t usually tell my readers unless I am going away for a week or more usually because I only blog once or twice a week (at the most) so it usually doesn’t matter too much. I have no idea about my stats as I only check once in awhile and that is usually to laugh about the search terms that land people on my blog.

I agree about e-mail responses too, I prefer someone taking longer to get back to me if they have put more thought into the email rather than a hurried short reply.

By: GnomeyNewt

GnomeyNewt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:14:37 +0000

I think its okay to tell your readers if you are going away, especially since you have a personal based log not a I’m a computer/robot type blog :c). You are human, you go on breaks sometimes. I think if you keep them in the loop its better. Wait to see if it picks back up. Interested to know if it does.

By: diamond geezer

diamond geezer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:50:59 +0000

I don’t think going away for a day or two, and not blogging in the meantime, affects visitors too much.

But, from my experience, going away for a week definitely seems to reduce visitor numbers afterwards. Hell, people are so fickle.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:21:52 +0000

im intrigued… how do you find out all these reader stats? i know mine is pretty much 0 but i didnt know such a thing existed lol

as for telling people… the idea was i came away and the blog was part of it so can’t really pass judgement.

Have to be honest if someone doesnt update for a day or 2 when there a daily i tend to check it more which is random and really stupid but hey… run an experiment