DISQUS

Andy Beal · 2 years ago

The main downside with full feeds is spammers stealing your content, but I think the positives far outweigh this.

Jordan McCollum · 2 years ago

Yeah, of course. Everyone says you can just police it and send DMCA letters, but really, if someone's stealing your content, they're not going to stop just because you threaten them with legal action—if you can even track them down.

Evan · 2 years ago

Full feeds FTW. I clicked through b/c the MP full feed has "by andy.beal@gmail (Andy Beal)" as the author and I thought Andy went third person on us, but alas a guest author.

Andy Beal · 2 years ago

@Evan - more than just a guest, it's the infamous Jordan. I'll have to see how to change the email listing for her posts.

Jordan McCollum · 2 years ago

'Infamous,' eh? Cue scene from The Three Amigos.

Andy Beal · 2 years ago

LOL - Jordan would you say we had a "plethora" of authors?

Jordan McCollum · 2 years ago

Oh yes. Does that make you El Guapo?

Jeremy Luebke · 2 years ago

I though this was more of the three stooges than the three amigos :D

j/k

Chris Sandberg · 2 years ago

Whenever I subscribe to a feed and find out that it only offers partial feeds I just unsubscribe most of the time. On the rare occasion that I do stay subscribed, I read far less of the content than I would if they had a full feed, since I am reluctant to click through. If you really want people to click through you should offer content that encourages discussion so that readers will click through to read responses and write their own comment as I just have.

Ellen · 2 years ago

I agree. It will do you no good. Some readers don't like the idea of giving them small details. Most of us want to know main idea right away.

Owen · 2 years ago

The biggest problem feeds have is that they are competing with other for a slice of your reader's attention. I scan through so many posts a day that partial feeds just don't work for me. I prefer to drop it and more on to something I can absorb more quickly.

Having a partial feed is the quickest way to get me to ubsubscribe to someone's feed.

HMTKSteve · 2 years ago

I just use livebookmarks in Firefox for my feed tracking. If I see an interesting headline I'm likely to click right through to the blog in question.

Otherwise, I don't use a "feed reeder" application.

Dario · 2 years ago

What if the writer partializes the feed at a critical must-keep-on-reading point? That's what I try to do, anyway...

Andy Beal · 2 years ago

@Dario - that works well for some. I hear that SEObook has success with just posting a summary of the post.

Raju · 2 years ago

I know http://quickonlinetips.com managed 10000 feed subscribers with partial feeds only! They recently switched to full feeds too. I guess it is how readers like your content. http://seroundtable.com and http://shoemoney.com also have lots of readers with partial feeds only.

Barb · 2 years ago

I also don't like partial feed. I don't like the suspence in finding out what it's all about. It's better if I know what it's all about.

Dana Mark · 2 years ago

When I see a partial feed, I only click through to the full feed if it is someone I really want to read, or the article is so interesting I just can't help myself, or if I want to read the comments. I do not automatically click through on every feed. That just wastes my time.