Comments on: Art Blogging: Should you offer full or partial blog feeds?

By: Nicolette Tallmadge

Nicolette Tallmadge — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:09:27 +0000

@John Lacey

Yup! Agreed!

By: Nicolette Tallmadge

Nicolette Tallmadge — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:55:26 +0000

@Skygrazer

Hmmm….I didn’t realize that point about companies blocking popular URLs. And that would compound the problem with the partial feed…great point! That’s another incentive to make sure you have your own URL to host your blog instead of Blogspot. A lot of people do read blogs during lunchtime or during their coffee break…too bad companies make it so hard for you. Everyone needs a small break during the day.

By: Nicolette Tallmadge

Nicolette Tallmadge — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:54:01 +0000

@Candy

I’m glad you found the post useful. Feed Footer is great. You can use it to post exclusive content, for advertising, as reminders..pretty much anything you want to do with it!

By: Nicolette Tallmadge

Nicolette Tallmadge — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:48:50 +0000

@ sherry dream

LOL! Well put. Partial feeds are a tease…and not in a good way!

By: sherry dream a little designs

sherry dream a little designs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:30 +0000

I think full feeds are best, partials are just a tease.

By: Marc Eglon

Marc Eglon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:30:49 +0000

Since I digest most of my content through reeder in my iphone or feedly at home, I am 100% for the full feed camp. I can see why some would syndicate a partial feed to drive visitors back to their site for ad revenue or whatever. But that just doesn’t work anymore so I just unsubscribe.

Producing content is about providing your audience with what they want. If they want to read my content off-site, that’s perfectly ok with me.

By: Candy from Candied Fabrics

Candy from Candied Fabrics — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:35:59 +0000

I too really don’t like partial feeds, but have tried different methods of providing links to get readers to click over – thanks for the link to feed footer – this is just what I need!

By: John Lacey

John Lacey — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:34:18 +0000

I can’t stand partial feeds… Nothing will make me unsubscribe to a blog quicker!

By: Skygrazer

Skygrazer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:29:33 +0000

Partial feeds can make it more than inconvenient, they can make it impossible to see certain blogs.

My company blocks all personal sites, and that includes all the major blog providers. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen with your blog, since you have a specific url.

If you’re surfing at work (during lunchtime, of course!), often you can’t get to the actual blog, so the RSS feed is all you see.

It’s also really annoying whenever people embed images directly from Flickr cause I can’t see those either