Comments on: ProBlogger Moves to Publishing Full Feeds

By: The Secret to Increasing Your Traffic Overnight - Hint, it has Something to do with Going on Holidays

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:21:19 +0000

[...] I switched to Full Feeds – my gut tells me that this was actually a significant factor in the surge (although at the time I [...]

By: Switching to Full RSS Feeds

Switching to Full RSS Feeds — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:18:57 +0000

[...] Why the switch? Well I figure that joining the likes of Amit Agarwal, Darren Rowse, Robert Scoble, and Nick Wilson is not a bad group to be part of. These are bloggers that have huge subscribers and so their insight is certainly worth considering. [...]

By: Problogger slows down Bloglines at ipears | Blogging the Ways to Make Money Online

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:20:03 +0000

[...] Lately, there is one feed that takes over 35 seconds (even with a 4 Mb downstream connection) to load. Where most of my feeds are clean at the end of the day, the feed of Problogger.net currently holds over 150 articles that I kept for re-reading… As a result – and especially since he has his feed in full-article format – the right panel of Bloglines showing the articles of Darren takes enormous time to load. [...]

By: ReveNews - Jim Kukral

ReveNews - Jim Kukral — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:51:57 +0000

ReveNews Full RSS Feed Hot Off The Burner!

I could write a really long entry describing the reasons ReveNews now publishes a full feed (just released here). I really could. But you know what? Darren said it all for me a while back. Scoble even has some decent thoughts on the matter. I’ll just …

By: quaisi

quaisi — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:59:39 +0000

Yay!

When I click on post`s title to get to the website itself it displays the feedburner`s feed page instead of the post.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:38:58 +0000

welcome back James – nice to have you :-)

By: James

James — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:59:06 +0000

Hi Darren, Just wanted to say that after a long hiatus I have resubscribed to your blog in my bloglines account. I visit your website regularly and also keep tabs on it through the newsletter you send out, but the thing that swung it for me was your decision to publish full RSS feeds. Many thanks!

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:55:31 +0000

Darren,

Thanks for the full feed. One problem that I notice, however, is that when I click on the feedburner permalink, it no longer redirects me to the correct page. Instead, it brings me to your RSS page at feedburner, where I have to scroll through the list to find the post that I am looking for which is a bit annoying. I don’t know if I am the only one having this problem or not but it is a bit annoying.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:49:41 +0000

Great to read your full feeds now. Just to let you know that the "Copyright Problogger Blog Tips" copyright feedflare was developed by me. Nice to see it at work on your feed.

By: Mike Schnoor

Mike Schnoor — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:51:42 +0000

Finally you’ve made the right choice, Darren. As far as I can tell, I’ve always skipped through the first couple of lines of your feed before simply MARKING IT AS READ. While reading through my own about 300 subscriptions, I have little time in reading summaries. I end up reading the full content, and not just a few lines without getting to the whole topic at all.

Because I usually scanned through your headlines, I usually found nothing that kept me attracted for more than 5 minutes. But by now, I’ve already read five of your posts in the feed reader without skipping yet. And of course I clicked at your site to comment… ;)

By: Steven Frein

Steven Frein — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:40:50 +0000

Thanks Darren. I have always promoted full text feeds and as a reader it is much appriciated. I think I will get more content from your site now that I don’t have to skim through and judge if a partial text feed is worth my time….

By: Jon Heizer

Jon Heizer — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:59:11 +0000

Not much of a change for me really. I use thunderbird for RSS and have it set to open the site linked by default. I got tired of reading blan rss when I could see the actual page if I waited 2 seconds. Sounds like everyone else likes it though.

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:08:26 +0000

And the big question, Darren: are you doing this across your more commercial blogs as well?

By: Bald Man

Bald Man — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:38:48 +0000

Perhaps you should hold off on the RSS ads. You’re changing two variables at once, which will make it harder to measure the impact of either one. you won’t know which changes are a result of publishing a full post feed and which are a result of the RSS ads.

I recommend a poll :D

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:32:34 +0000

I fully agree with the change!
Specially in a blog like this one. The information provided is too essential to be cut in the middle.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:21:13 +0000

good work, its more useful this way

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:17:52 +0000

thanks for the feedback everyone.

and for those suggesting a poll – I’VE ALREADY DONE ONE!!!!! :-)

By: John T P

John T P — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:05:24 +0000

I prefer full feeds to partial ones. But why don’t you conduct a poll on the subject?

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:32:06 +0000

Darren – weird! It’s working fine in my other RSS reader, but Thunderbird only downloaded excerpts.. I’ll have a look at my settings this evening to see if I’ve done something odd :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:19:48 +0000

already did a poll George (and mentioned it in the post above as a reason for going with full feeds) – it was clear people wanted full feeds :-)