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Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Dana Mark — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:58:00 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Barb — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:09:38 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Raju — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:44:11 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Andy Beal — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:39:01 -0000

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

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Dario — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:10:24 -0000

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

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

HMTKSteve — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:21:11 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Owen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:12:38 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Ellen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:41:01 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Chris Sandberg — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:05:15 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Jeremy Luebke — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:02:26 -0000

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

j/k

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Jordan McCollum — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:29:09 -0000

Oh yes. Does that make you El Guapo?

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Andy Beal — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:22:36 -0000

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

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Jordan McCollum — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:16:16 -0000

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

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Andy Beal — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:13:15 -0000

@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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Evan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:47:20 -0000

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.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Jordan McCollum — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:45:56 -0000

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 actionâ€”if you can even track them down.

Re: Partial Feeds Don’t Draw Visitors

Andy Beal — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:43:29 -0000

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