Comments on: Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds? – Another Test Case

By: adClustr » 12 Ways to Force Your RSS Feeds to Earn Money - Free Ad Backgrounds & AdSense Advice

Mon, 14 May 2007 13:17:00 +0000

[...] this may not generate you any money directly, it is an important part in keeping your readership. Problogger and Scobleizer did informal studies and found that people want full feeds. Of course this opens you [...]

By: RSS Feeds « Messaging….. Technology…… Life…..

RSS Feeds « Messaging….. Technology…… Life….. — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:21:33 +0000

[...] RSS Feeds Filed under: blogging — joshmaher @ 1:00 am With all of the discussion lately about RSS feeds, I wanted to clarify my position….I distribute full text feeds (none of this half baked stuff to make you get out of your easy chair and walk over)…. [...]

By: RSS Feeds « Messaging….. Technology…… Life…..

RSS Feeds « Messaging….. Technology…… Life….. — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:10:22 +0000

[...] RSS Feeds Filed under: blogging — joshmaher @ 11:59 am With all of the discussion lately about RSS feeds, I wanted to clarify my position….I distribute full text feeds (none of this half baked stuff to make you get out of your easy chair and walk over)…. [...]

By: RSS Feeds « Messaging….. Technology…… Life…..

RSS Feeds « Messaging….. Technology…… Life….. — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:42:06 +0000

[...] RSS Feeds Filed under: blogging — joshmaher @ 2:40 pm With all of the discussion lately about RSS feeds, I wanted to clarify my position….I distribute full text feeds (none of this half baked stuff to make you get out of your easy chair and walk over)…. [...]

By: Ms. Q

Ms. Q — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:29:59 +0000

Sorry for the dumb question but I seem to be googling in circles – how can I tell if I am publishing a full or partial RSS feed? I am using the capability that came with my WP theme and I can see my headlines using Yahoo as my reader, but that’s about it for my knowledge. Do I have to subscribe to Feedburner or some other service?

Thanks!

By: cearta.ie joins to Blog O’ Sphere at RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:49:46 +0000

[...] Congratulations Eoin. Keep it up. If I may make one comment, when you find the button, can you turn on full texts in your feed? It makes it much easier to read all your blog posts. [...]

By: gossiptable.com » Blog Archive » Getting Noticed by A-list bloggers vs Getting on Digg Front Pages

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:50:43 +0000

[...] Some of our blog posts managed to get on the radar screens of eminent blogging personalities like Jeff Jarvis, Nicholas Karr, Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Darren Rowse, Michael Parekh and Steve Rubel. [...]

By: Devlounge | For the Love of the Web, Please Use Full Content Feeds!

Devlounge | For the Love of the Web, Please Use Full Content Feeds! — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:31:44 +0000

[...] Full feeds can cause feed income to rise. Both ProBlogger and Digital Inspiration wrote about their experiences with full feeds and income. Both ProBlogger and Digital Inspiration noticed a jump in feed income after switching to full feeds. [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:46:39 +0000

Once again you come with the helpful information.

By: links for 2006-12-16 por BrPoint

links for 2006-12-16 por BrPoint — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:23:52 +0000

[...] Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds? – Another Test Case Confirmação de que feeds completos fazem bem para o blogueiro. (tags: Blogging ProBlogger) Tags Locais: Sem Tags [...]

By: Brandon Wood

Brandon Wood — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:49:12 +0000

As a reader, I prefer sites that offer full text feeds, so I do the same with my own blog. Some people think this will cause you to lose traffic, but I truly believe that if you have good content, even your subscribers will visit your site to see more of what you have to offer, or to comment on a post. I regularly visit many of the sites I’m subscribed to (including this one).

If you are concerned about is traffic and making money from ads, you should be able to make up the lost ad revenue from your main site with ad revenue from your feed.

By: MJR/slef

MJR/slef — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:39:36 +0000

I prefer partial feeds, especially if the author is in the habit of long posts. If they write long articles often and only offer full feeds, they’re taking a lot of space and processor time in my aggregator (relatively), so they had better be damned good else they get deleted.

Also, full text feeds are just useless extra bandwidth payments if your readers use “Live Bookmarks” tools, as far as I know.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:17:11 +0000

Am I the only one in the world who actually prefers partial feeds as a reader? Since I use Bloglines I’m online and in a browser already and middle-click anything of interest by default. There’s nothing I hate more than several screens long of a long article with several large images/graphs/etc on a topic I don’t care about. And don’t get me started on when that same article appears 3+ times in a row for whatever reason(content updates, bloglines glitch?)

By: Martial Development

Martial Development — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:09:29 +0000

I addressed this same issue last week: Should I From Full to Partial RSS Feeds? You can read my reasoning there, but in summary I decided not to switch.

By: Deb/Jersey Girl

Deb/Jersey Girl — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:05:42 +0000

Darren,
I noticed when I subscribed to your site, I visited the actual site less, and also skipped commenting a few times….scrolling through, more than reading straight on.
That’s why I decided to keep the subscription, but drop by here too.
I didn’t even notice it at first, until I read it here, and went….hey, yeah…you’re right!

Cheers, Deb/Jersey Girl

By: MJR/slef

MJR/slef — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:05:23 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with a hybrid: my blog is arranged into topic pages (not individual posts) and the feeds contain the full text of the latest post, but linking through usually gets you a page of the whole topic, opened at the latest post, near to links to the start of subtopic and start of topic. Complaints of both “why don’t you post the full text” and “why don’t you trim your text” types dropped to near zero. Best of both worlds?

By: bluno.org » Hacking journalstar.com RSS

bluno.org » Hacking journalstar.com RSS — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:34:07 +0000

[...] Since the feeds exist, WHY wouldn’t they be promoted on the site? Clearly, they don’t realize that “RSS is the paperboy” (see question #4). An RSS subscriber is clearly more engaged and interested in the content. They are more likely to turn more pages, participate in comments, and post links on their blogs, in turn driving more traffic to the site. I don’t expect them to provide full content feeds, though some sites havehad encoraging results. [...]

By: Blog Bloke

Blog Bloke — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:01:43 +0000

I’ve sent them an email and will let you know.

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:08:55 +0000

Yes, Blogger Beta gives three options for the site feed: None, Short, and Full. It also allows one to edit the feed post footers to insert ads or other things.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:35:14 +0000

Not sure BB – does blogger allow full/partial feeds these days? It’s been a while since I used their platform.