Dear Reader: Why are you reading CN Reviews?
Thank you for reading CN Reviews! But who are you and what do you want us to write about? We actually have more than a handful of RSS feed subscribers now, and sometimes more than two handfuls 
For those readers in particular, I want to know why you subscribed, what you like, what you don’t like.
I recently read a ProBlogger post from 2007 entitled 34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribed from Your Blog. I’ve reposted the top 5 reasons here:
- Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) - 37
- Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) - 29
- Partial Excerpts Feeds - 25
- Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) - 23
- Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News) - 19
So we want to keep you! We are currently aiming for 5 posts a week, and we might move to 7 posts a week in the future. Is that too much? too little?
The question I want your help in answering is “what is our blog’s focus”? We intentionally want to explore the “white space” between the existing, well established blog spaces. So defining our focus is hard. We are like the kid in school that is friendly with lots of groups, but not really in one group or another. (Actually, come to think of it, that was what I was like in high school!) But we get excited when we bring different groups together!
So what should our vision and our voice be for CN Reviews?
P.S. thanks for our wonderful commenters this month: Kai, Jian Shuo, AW, Fidelmeister, Michael, and Jason Elder. Thanks!
2 Responses to “Dear Reader: Why are you reading CN Reviews?”
To talk about more in details of ordinary people’s life in China.
Don’t make the post too long but make it very readable.
To tell the world a real China.
@aw,
I just read your post about “author experience” vs “reader experience” on your English blog ifgogo.com. I was excited to find it and added it to my blogroll. Thank you for your ideas. We will try to make sure our posts are not too long and also readable! Thanks again.