Comments on: I Hate Feed Summaries

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:47:22 +0000

I agree with you on this.

I read most of my feeds on the go with my iPhone and I have have this nice rss reader that imports my google reader rss-feeds to it and shows the feeds layed out perfectly on the iPhone screen…except that when it’s just a summary it doesn’t have that much value anymore… I have to click to see the full post (loading….loading….loading…) and then it appears in the web site layout, which in some cases is really not designed to be viewed on a mobile phone.

By: jay @ work at home

jay @ work at home — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:14:43 +0000

I think that is true. I’m subscribed to a couple of feeds, but I never really look at them like that. Feeds are alright, but not that important as they were before IMO.

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By: Trevor Nash-Keller

Trevor Nash-Keller — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:38:04 +0000

If your worried about your feeds getting scraped, you can do something like get a plugin that adds in the most popular or related posts at the bottom of each post. This way if someone DOES scrape you, you are going to get multiple backlinks out of it. There are also other plugins that can help you solve this issue. Trevor Nash-Kellers last blog post..Affiliate Summit West 2009 Recap

By: Bryn Youngblut

Bryn Youngblut — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:36:46 +0000

In reply to Dot Com Dud. I wonder if there is or should be an option to choose how you view feeds, full or summary.

By: Dot Com Dud

Dot Com Dud — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:26:41 +0000

I am another fan of full feeds. I offer them on my blog because I figure if someone has decided to subscribe to my blog they shouldn't have to suffer theinconvenience of clicking through just to get the full story. Although a couple of the above comments make me realise some readers prefer partial feeds, is there anyway to offer both? Dot Com Duds last blog post..September Traffic Analysis

By: Bryn Youngblut

Bryn Youngblut — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:49:51 +0000

In reply to manodogs. Although scrapers might suck you will most likely always rank much higher than them in Google anyways so I wouldn't be too concerned about them stealing your content. Google slaps those sites pretty quickly anyways.

By: manodogs

manodogs — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:47:23 +0000

In reply to Chris. I don't know about that, either. As you said (and I mentioned previously), I did it because of scrapers. I was pulling a sizable amount of traffic for a while and I suddenly noticed a drop, so I checked it out and found TONS of sites scraping my content, so I quickly changed the feed to summary. The traffic picked back up *slightly* but the feed count dropped dramatically, proving most of my subscribers were scrapers. I don't think it matters much either way, since a lot of people like to have high feed counts. manodogss last blog post..Idiot Plans to Burn Library Book to Save Children

By: Andrei Buiu

Andrei Buiu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:56:10 +0000

I for one, don't like feed summaries. I prefer the full feed, so I don't have to visit the site to read more. Andrei Buius last blog post..Marketing is the queen

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:07:30 +0000

I actually preffer summaries, my reason to use feeds is to not read everything because honestly few blogs publish exciting content one after the other, so I read the title and the extract and if I like it, ill visit the blog.

Hey it also helps the writter, he or she took time to write for other people, might as well pay him back for the great content with a few visits and good comments. 🙂