Full or Partial Feeds? Or Headlines only?
Dear Reader,
i just changed the syndication settings of the blog.
The Emarketscout RSS 2.0 Feed is run with Feedburner. In the past month i did use the Summary Burner Feature, which often led to an ugly truncation of the posts in the feed.
I just deactivated this feature. But i still provide only a partial feed.
IMHO it’s fair to make your readers visit your blog, if they want to read the full content.
Thus i use the feed as an update service to subscribers, informing them about new posts, and giving them the first lines of the posts as teasers, so that they can decide if they want to come back to the blog to read the full post.
To me this is a better way than just sending an email with the headline of the new post, like some other bloggers do. Even though some headlines might be strong enough to attract a lot of visitors themselves …*-)
Besides keeping my readers updated, providing only a partial feed is a means of Traffic Generation too for me.
I’m interested in your opinion - be it as a reader or fellow blogger.
What do you like best? Full or partial feeds? Headlines only? What makes sense to you and why?
Regards,
Michael
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I don’t subscribe to partial feeds. I read only full feeds and I run full feeds on all of my blogs. I know that if someone wants to leave a comment or something else - then they will have to stop back and go to the site.
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