Comments on: Do You Apologize to Your Readers For Not Blogging?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:29:07 +0000

It’s a very interesting question and I know I’ve certainly posted something explaining my lack of posting before even though readers don’t actually complain about the lack of updates.

I guess it’s some sort of unwritten rule, but I wonder if readers would expect an apology for not posting for a while?

By: sindhu

sindhu — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:31:38 +0000

i dont apologize. it’s your blog. why bother saying sorry. that practise among bloggers doesnt quite make sense to me. :-\

yea yea uve the “putting readers first” i would leave a note if i was going away, or come back n tell`em the reason i was away , apologize? nope not me

By: sourcer

sourcer — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:34:28 +0000

I think it doesn’t matter if you blog for money or for pleaseure, you should apologize anyway

By: pol.b

pol.b — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:43:52 +0000

I think you have to, especially if you have a lot of subscribed readers. They are definitely wondering for your lack of blogging.

By: Vibhash

Vibhash — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:26:44 +0000

You have posted some nice ideas John, but im not sure which one to use. I can’t really say that my blog is a personal blog, so i guess the idea of apologizing at the end of the post will be better for me!

But writing an apology at the end of the post doesn’t show sufficient care for your users….so i came up with a better idea.

what we can do is to write a normal apology post, followed by a new blog post for the users who just came to your blog for specific topics you write.

Well you have already linked to that blog, so i don’t need to post it here

Anyways I have posted my idea here-
http://tech-tonic.net/technology-trends/best-way-to-apologize-to-your-readers-for-not-blogging.html
Feel free to add your comments

By: Ashok

Ashok — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:23:22 +0000

In my short career as blogger I took a long vacation of around 20 days. Here I mentioned the reason of my vacation http://www.helloashok.com/personal/after-vacation-in-tehri/29/

But I don’t think it will be called apology.

By: Amey jahagirdar

Amey jahagirdar — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:01:03 +0000

Hey it’s nice idea to apologize to readers if you are not blogging for some reason , it does help your to built loyalty and in turn good relationship with readers.

By: Fanatyk

Fanatyk — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:56:48 +0000

I have no reasons to do this. As long as I’m using WordPress I can set the date of publishing the post. So I can write 2 or 3 posts and set them to appear in the future.

By: dotone

dotone — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:03:18 +0000

I would but not in straight words, instead I’d have a big come-back.

By: Madhur kapoor

Madhur kapoor — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:50:26 +0000

I always make a point to inform my readers if i will be busy for a long time .