Putting Partial Feed SEO Bloggers on Notice
July 27th, 2007 by Michael Gray in BlogsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
If you’re an SEO blogger and you publish a partial feed I’m putting you on notice, August 1st I’m dropping you from my RSS reader.
Partial feeds suck! There I’ve said it, it ain’t pretty, it ain’t nice but it’s the truth. Partial feeds are like DRM and recording industry you lock me into getting the content the way you want me to digest it, not the way that’s easiest for me.
I get why you do it, you want to bump up your page views so you can sell more advertising, but you know what I don’t care about that. I want to make my life more convenient and productive, and you know what I’m even willing to pay for that convenience. Go ahead offer partial feeds for free but give me the option getting full feeds if I pony up a few bucks month or year.
Don’t think it will work, people said the same thing about paid cable TV when it first came out too …
Sphere It
July 27th, 2007 at 5:03 am
TOTALLY AGREE!
Dave Naylor is one of the worst!
July 27th, 2007 at 5:03 am
I fully understand partial postings on a blog, where you don’t want the full text on a gazillion pages. If you’re usingn Wordpress + the “more-button” for that, then the feed will automatically use only that snippet as well. Grrrrr.
You can fix that with http://cavemonkey50.com/code/full-feed/ - it’ll leave partial postings on your blog, on the main page, in the archives, etc, but will put the full post into the feed.
Post your OPML so that the bloggers in question can get their acts together.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:44 am
I have noticed on a few of my blogs that people were using my feeds to create spam pages. Im scared to post full feed bc of duplicate content.
Any tips?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Right on!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Couldn’t agree more — the partial feeds are a no go for me too.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Absolutely agree, had the f_cking things!
July 27th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Alternative for sites you still want to read but the webmaster sucks.
http://www.doshdosh.com/google-reader-preview-greasemoney-script/
July 27th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
hmmm, that stinks. Sometimes you are forced into partial feeds. We use Joomla on our site. Rss feeds are partial on Joomla. I think it will require a bit of investment to fix that. Michael, if you promise to read our feed, I will pay a developer to fix the problem.
Khalid
July 27th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
You complain too much.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
“you want to bump up your page views”
I think even that is shortsighted. There are many of us who make unconscient decisions whether to read a feed or to ignore it or even dump it and one of the main reasons is the partial feed. So I found myself not reading many feeds and happily sticking with others that can get my daily dosage. Those are the ones that are getting my attention and sometimes my links. And we know where it leads
July 28th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Dude,
Right on! In fact, I agree with you so much, that this is actually my first comment on any blog (yeah, I’m a voyeur)…I left my feed station to come here just to agree with you.
So, in my opinion, if you really want to boost your page views, say something worth commenting on.
And another damn thing, don’t waste my presaous feed space with some short random comment on the industry, or worse yet, and inndustry that has nothing to do with your blog’s theme. That is just plain boring and lazy.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Could not agree more with you Graywolf.
I would say it is in the quality of content, content is the king so you should write something that is worth being commented on
July 29th, 2007 at 3:01 am
I agree entirely. Partial feeds are one of my pet peeves - I think it shows a lack of consideration for the readers’ time, and an underlying arrogance i.e “You want it? Interrupt what you’re doing and come and get it”. Definitely bad karma.
July 29th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Don’t blame you, theres nothing more annoying and time wasting
July 29th, 2007 at 9:13 am
you tell em, gray. soon as i subscribe and notice partials… i’m done.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I’ll wager that someday you may reverse this position and wish for a feed with more robust (meaty) snippets . . and then you’ll also wish for a system that works around well formed snippets that are a load of promise and no delivery. Methinks, at some point, we’ll all just adjust to the idea that there may be people who only post when something worth your time is also worth their publishing. We’re not quite there yet but it takes time for us humans to adapt. Publish less but far higher quality and I won’t be wasting time scanning lengthy feeds for meaty articles.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Webwork, something else that is a PITA about partial feeds is mobile browsing. Google Reader (I assume others as well) has a pretty usable mobile interface which lets me view titles and click to see the item from the feed. With full feeds, I can read the full article on my phone (and yes, I do that a lot, maybe I’m the only one, lol). With partial feeds, I have to hope that maybe, possibly I can view the blog on my phone but usually I can’t - so the heck with it I’ll just mark that entry as read and get on with the rest.
Full feeds = automatic, no-work-required, mobile browser version of your blog.
July 30th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i luv it.
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July 31st, 2007 at 10:37 am
Gotta give two thumbs up for the cavemonkey wordpress/feedburner plugin, I was tearing my hairout trying to switch to full feeds because I hate partial feeds so much.
August 1st, 2007 at 12:56 am
John, thanks for the link to WordPress plugin!
August 1st, 2007 at 1:30 am
To michael: Do it man! Partial feeds are total bs.
To andrew: rss magician negates doing that.
Ok, wait a minute, it’s for something else, scraping article directories.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:32 am
Actually, rss magician can scrape any rss feed, it appears.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:44 am
Also there’s the trickle down effect, like when someone adds your rss feed to iGoogle, it’s a supreme compliment if they value your content enough to put it on their startup page. Do them a favor and publish full feeds!
August 1st, 2007 at 10:49 am
Hey, I got the first Weblog XSS Worm based on several new Wordpress 2.2.1 Security Vulnerabilities I found these days.
Check it out
cheers benjamin
August 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Dugg:
http://digg.com/design/Partial_Blog_RSS_Feeds_Totally_Sucks
August 17th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
This is probably going to sound dumb but can someone please clarify partial feeds for me? Thanks in advance
September 14th, 2007 at 1:32 am
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