{"id":2457,"date":"2007-12-31T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2007-12-31T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T20:53:20","slug":"rss-feeds-the-full-vs-partial-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2457\/rss-feeds-the-full-vs-partial-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Feeds – The Full vs. Partial Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I peruse through the 338 blogs in my feedreader every day, I find myself wondering why some blog authors chose to provide full feeds, some partial feeds and even a few provide titles only.<\/p>\n

(If you know not of what I speak, the first video in this post<\/a> is a short and simple explanation of RSS feeds. A full feed is exactly that — the full text of the post is provided in the feed. A partial feed provides a “teaser” — a few sentences, and a title only feed provides just the title.)<\/p>\n

Darren Rowse of the brilliant ProBlogger wrote a post<\/a> about this back in September. He followed that up with a poll<\/a> showing 75% of the bloggers that answered provide full feeds.<\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t care for partial feeds, and I loathe title only feeds. I use a feed reader so I don’t have<\/em> to visit individual blogs. That’s the whole point in subscribing to feeds. A feed reader allows me to manage reading almost every post of every blog I subscribe to. Being forced to click through to the blog is not only annoying, it’s time consuming. And let’s face it folks, time is money.<\/p>\n

If one were to read through Darren’s comments, you’ll see a couple of general thoughts about full vs. partial feeds.<\/p>\n

Those that support partial feeds have two basic premises:<\/p>\n

1) Partial feeds result in more hard clicks and direct traffic to the blog. If you are attempting to monetize a blog with Adsense, affiliate links, etc. then I suppose it makes sense to try to increase your direct page views — in the hope that someone will click on a paying link and add a nickel to your “paycheck”.<\/p>\n

2) Some seem to think that if you provide partial or title feeds, that the splogging snots out there won’t steal your content. To that I say, “Fooey”. My blog gets scraped all the time, and often the splogger only captures the beginning and end of the posts — and the end includes the copyright notice that says:<\/p>\n

If you are reading this outside your feedreader or on any Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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