Do you allow partial feed or full feed on your RSS? Why?
What about subscribing? Do you prefer full or partial feeds?
I suppose when it comes to feeds, you’re either a meat and taters kind of blogger or a veggie salad blogger?
The reason I’ve chosen to allow partial feeds of my own blogs is because of content theft and splogs.
Personally, I don’t mind partial feeds because if the topic is interesting enough, it’s not going to kill me to click through to read the rest.
Tags: rss feeds, partial feeds, full feed, content theft, blogging, weblog, syndication
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It’s all full feed for me. Biggest reason is convenience. I like full feeds in my reader so I can more easily scan posts. I rarely click through on partial feeds.
I send full feeds for the same reason. I want readers to have the easiest time reading what’s on my blog. I don’t care that much if they don’t actually visit – as long as they’re reading.
Though if they visit I want it to be so they can join in the conversation.
Full feeds only. There are very few partial feed blogs that I bother with. It is true that if the partial is interesting that I could click through, but it normally isn’t so I end up realizing that I’m never reading any of the posts and unsubscribe. I don’t want people to unsubscribe from me, so I use full.
I agree- full feeds are more likely to get read. I try to get through my feeds as efficiently as possible, and having to click through to read the rest of the post sort of annoys me. Unless it always extremely good content, eventually I will just unsubscribe. I can see the reasoning behind doing it though, but for me personally it’s not a plus.
Wow, I had no idea so many people felt that way about partial feeds.
I’m going to have to rethink my whole position now.
When in doubt, do what Problogger does.
As for the whole scraper, splog things, I think there are plugins to help with that kind of thing. I seem to remember one that embedded your URL in the feed so that if somebody scraped it at least you got a link back to your site and some hope of figuring out exactly where it is happening at.
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