Should everyone switch to full content RSS feeds?
I recently read an article on devlounge that gave some reasons for having full content feeds. The main points are as follows:
- Full feeds provide a convenience for those that read feeds. As with any "feature" of a website, you should focus on what you are really trying to do for your user. If a user that uses feeds expects full feeds, you should provide full feeds.
- Full feeds help readers "discover" you. Because feeds are used to quickly "skim" the information, using a partial content feed requires that the user take an unnecessary step of clicking through to your website to get the real content.
- Feeds will catch on. I've already commented about my hopes and dreams for RSS .
Now why haven't we all jumped on board the "Full Content Express?" We hadn't because we feared giving scrapers even easier access to our content. However, we've decided to give it a go for a month and see what happens. Leave a comment to let us know if you like the full feed or if we should go back to the partial feed.
Here are some other interesting articles about migrating to full content feeds.
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2
Chase
It really doesn´t matter if websites display full RSS feeds or not. With WizardRSS.com you can type in the URL of the partial feeds and they will forward you to a new URL where you can get the link to the full RSS feeds.
I have seen a ton of people using their service. Plus, I have never run across a website like WizardRSS.com that actually lets you get the full feed from any website on the Internet.
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niky
Found full feed site http://FullFeeds.org is a full RSS feed generator that can take any partial feed and convert it into a full feed or accept any URL from any website
4
roezer Dec 17, 2011
Hello Adam how did switching to full rss help if it did?
I do not subscribe much to rss feeds anymore mostly as they are only read more emails I prefer to use twitter for topics I am interested in . People should be happy that others want to be notified of their latest updates as for the scrapers these are a problem that Google seem to combat quite well. What I find is that with the correct plugins and setup of your wordpress scraped content will only give you backlinks. Such plugin as Yoast SEO and the antifeed scraper.
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Sneaker
I support full content rss