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7:39 pm
September 28, 2011
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Hank Coleman
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Which is better: to show your full article in your RSS feed or to show just a summary/excerpt? Thanks for any advice.
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8:01 pm
September 28, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Many readers drop a feed when they get an RSS excerpt.
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8:29 pm
September 28, 2011
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sooverthis
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Definitely full posts. I unsubscribe immediately when I see partial feeds.
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8:42 pm
September 28, 2011
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Shannyn @FrugalBeautiful.com
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Interesting stuff! I know that many people subscribe to a feed exactly so they can aggregate their favorite blogs and not having to click around to read posts. Now that I think of it, I have been pretty annoyed with partial posts!
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5:03 am
September 29, 2011
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Glen Craig
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Unless you are a complete authority where I'll take the time to click through to your site (NYT, WSJ, etc…) I generally HATE excerpts.
I know some use the excerpts though to keep scrapers at bay.
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5:34 am
September 29, 2011
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20s Finances
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Hank,
Andrea @ Sooverdebt converted me to full feeds. She did a poll on Twitter and EVERYONE, even some big hitters, said Full feeds. I switched right away and don't regret it. I do have a link back to 20's Finances in my RSS footer though to prevent people from stealing the material. (not sure how effective it is, but I still have it).
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5:54 am
September 29, 2011
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MoneyBeagle
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I will unsubscribe when a feed is not a full post feed. Huge pet peeve. I know the biggest reason is to attract clicks, but I look at it that if the post is good enough, they'll get clicks anyways by people who want to go in and comment. Basically, if you deliver quality content, the pageviews will come anyways.
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6:51 am
September 29, 2011
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Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz
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Totally agree with what everyone else has said. I will unsubscribe from a feed if it doesn't feature the full post. What's the point of subscribing if I have to go to your site anyways to read the post?
Just write great content and traffic will find its way to your site.
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6:52 am
September 29, 2011
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Aaron Hung
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I like to apologize for switching to partial feeds a few weeks back but it is back to full post now…lost all my readers :(
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8:03 am
September 29, 2011
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I unsubscribe to partial feeds…full feeds is the reason I use RSS
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8:25 am
September 29, 2011
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Jason@LiveRealNow
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Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:
Unless you are a complete authority where I'll take the time to click through to your site (NYT, WSJ, etc…) I generally HATE excerpts.
I know some use the excerpts though to keep scrapers at bay.
Even if you are an authority, I use http://fulltextrssfeed.com/ on all possible excerpt feeds that I want to read.
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5:44 pm
September 29, 2011
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Hank Coleman
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Wow! That's some awesome feedback. Thank you all very much. It seems like the verdict is in and full posts in the RSS feed it is. Thanks everyone!
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12:23 am
October 1, 2011
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Jen @ Master the Art of Saving
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Boy am I glad I've always done full. I never knew how much of an impact it could have. I always figured that if they're subscribing, they might want to save some time/clicks and that it would keep me in fresh in their mind. If they want to visit, they will. 
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10:31 am
October 3, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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I do full posts in my RSS but partial on my site. It seems to work well.
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3:07 pm
October 3, 2011
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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Add another vote for full feeds. I hate seeing a partial feed, since I may not have the time or ability to click through to read every post.
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6:54 am
October 10, 2011
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Beating The Index
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Wow, what a VIOLENT opposition to excerpts in an RSS feed (Rich Site Summary)
Allow me to disagree with you all based on my experiences since I am for excerpts (until now):
1. I never had my site scrapped
2. My RSS subscriber numbers are at an all time high
3. My site stats (earnings, pageviews, etc) improved when I switched to excerpts (makes great data with advertisers, which is better? telling a banner advertiser you have 350 RSS subs and 10,000 page views or 250 subs and 15,000 pageviews per mo?)
4. With full RSS on, I personally find myself never visiting a site with full excerpts which translates into less traffic and potentially less advertising revenue for that site. On the other hand, if I find an interesting title, I will click on the post from the RSS feed if it is an excerpt. I actually do not remember how some sites look like since I no longer visit them, I just read the post from RSS when it is interesting.
If I am interested in your content, I will seek that content whether it is in full RSS feed or not. If it's not I will click on the excerpt to read the rest. The end result is the same: reading your content!
I disagree that traffic "will find itself" into the site because most traffic is made up of silent lurkers that rarely comment.
If I was using my blog posts to MARKET a product/service, then yes it would make more sense to have a full excerpt on but I am not. I am using my site's "real estate" space for income and for that I need traffic on my site not on my RSS feed.
Please feel free to open fire with weapons of all calibers at my opinion. Maybe my reasoning is flawed so it would help rectify my view.
Cheers all!
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6:42 pm
October 10, 2011
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Doctor Stock
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter said:
I do full posts in my RSS but partial on my site. It seems to work well.
Umm… how can I tell if my RSS feeds are full?
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7:16 pm
October 10, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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subscribe to your own feed in your reader and then logon to feedburner to change settings
I do a full feed
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7:17 pm
October 10, 2011
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Hank Coleman
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Doc,
Yours are a full RSS feed. One way you can tell is if you look at your feed in a browser…. http://feeds.feedburner.com/In…..TheMarkets You see the entire article and not a summary or the first paragraph. And, that's one way to know it is the full feed.
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3:32 am
October 11, 2011
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Beating The Index
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Come on guys, no takers?
So basically you are all against excerpts in feeds because you're too lazy to click on a link to get to the content?
I am up for conversion here, give it a shot…
Thanks,
Mich
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