Full feeds, are the ONLY way to Go!

I wrote in my post “
Blogs need to eat too! Feed your blog with 39 ways to build your RSS Subscriber base. So easy a slackjawed yokel could do it!” one of the tips that I state to increase your subscribers is is to use full feeds, I’m going to expand on this a little further.

There are 2 main reasons that opponents of this thinking cite as their reasons for using partial feeds.

  1. Using a partial feed forces the reader to visit their site - and essentially raise their stats, ranking, and bring in more money from advertisers. This may actually be true if you’re a large blog, with tons of great content like mashable.com, but for the small-time blogger, 90% of your readers are going to be too lazy to click on through and read the rest of your article.This hurts your credibility. You build credibility by writing awesome articles that everyone bookmarks, shares, and loves. If people can’t, don’t, or won’t read your post, they can’t see how great it is, and won’t bother visiting your blog anymore. You want people to read your content no matter what to build up your name, brand, and reputation.

    Secondly, many readers, automatically just unsubscribe from any and all blogs that use partial feeds, if you’re ok with losing 40% of readers out there, then by all means use partial feeds, but I highly advise against it.

    Also according to feedburner, having a partial feed will not increase clickthroughs to your site at all.

  2. Using partial feeds, can save your content from being scraped. That’s not always true, and the damage of losing subscribers, followers, etc out-weighs the alternative.It’s also possible that partial feeds can actually help scrapers, as the keyword density may be better.

Conclusion:

Successful blogging is about getting your message out there, and making your readers happy, think of what you would do in their situation, if reading a partial post do you always click through to the website? If so you’re the exception…

Personally, I get pissed if a blogger actually expects me to click through to their website, when I’m surfing my reader.

Most bloggers are lazy, or way to busy to click through on every post, especially if they’re researching for a new blog post, which is what I am doing 90% of the time I’m using my reader.

Bottom line: Stop pissing off people off and Switch to a Full Feed!

Here are a few other great blog posts I read recently to back this up.

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