2006 February · Dominic Foster

On Providing Full RSS Feeds

February 23, 2006 on 12:22 pm | In Etc... | 15 Comments

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Performancing have written about Why Full Text Feeds are Good – having been inspired by Scobles post explaining why Blog Herald not understanding why full text feeds work. I won’t summarize their opinions – go and read the posts for yourselves to be better informed. Pay special attention about what Scoble has to say about influencing connectors and journalists.

However, I will add my opinions about truncated RSS feeds:

They look really ugly. And they usually don’t mean anything because they are often just a part-sentence.
If I subscribe to your truncated feed, then I am probably only going to read about 15% of your website and be less convinced to subscribe to the products and services you are offering. Even if you are on the A List of blogging.
To get me to your website, you are going to have to convince me in 1 Post Title, 50 words and 3 full stops [in square brackets].

And here’s what I think you should consider doing if you have convinced yourself that you really MUST have truncated feeds (at least if you use Wordpress):

Impliment the Wordpress Better Feed plugin. Then you can enable readers to make a more informed choice about being forced to view your website. Also, you can configure it to show links to your products and services at the end of the feed item should you want to.

What are your opinions about not having Full Feeds vs Truncated Feeds?