Do You Apologize to Your Readers For Not Blogging?

Every blogger stops blogging once in a while, it could be because they wanted a break or maybe because they fell sick or was too busy. My question to you is – Do you apologize to your readers for not posting?

I know I have. I did a quick search and found 3 posts where I had done it.

1. Here I had mentioned about my short break in advance:

I am sorry to say that I will not be blogging much till the end of this month. I have a lot of work to do at present and need a short break. But I will be back as soon as I am free with lots of interesting posts for you.

2. Here I had stated the reason for not posting for a Week:

I am back…after being offline for more than 1 Week. And I am glad I am finally online. What happened?

It all started after my UPS battery became weak and I needed to replace it. Two days after I gave my UPS for repair I came to know that my UPS battery was an imported one and was not available at my place. The next day I bought a new UPS and found that my PC refused to start. Only today I found that the problem was caused due to overheating. So I cleaned my CPU fan and everything went well.

3. And here, as said by Vibhash, I blamed my cat for not posting a day

Is it ok to put up a post just for apologizing to my readers?

On a personal blog, like mine, it is probably fine to put up a post just for apologizing to your readers (infact I feel this helps me get closer to my readers).

But on blogs that focus on a particular topic, it would be better if they apologized at the end of a valuable post as most readers just care about the content.

In their case – if they suddenly stopped posting for a while and then put up a post just for apologizing, it’s a sure way to lose readers!

Tip: You could hire a Guest Blogger when you want to take a break

So, have you apologized to your readers? Also do you think it is a good thing? As a reader, will you get annoyed with such a post?

Feel free to link to your posts (below in comments) where you have apologized to your readers for not posting

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