Full Feeds are Better Than Truncated Blog Posts

Full Feeds vs Partial Text Feeds

Peter: Truncated RSS feeds are like foreplay without sex. Damn frustrating.

My own analysis of FeedBurner stats of two different blogs or sites over whose content I am in control indicates clearly that the one which publishes the full feed has a much higher subscriber - to - pageview ratio than the one that only publishes a partial RSS content feed.

TechDirt - Full Feeds Result in More Page Views:

Full text feeds makes the reading process much easier. It means it’s that much more likely that someone reads the full piece and actually understands what’s being said — which makes it much, much, much more likely that they’ll then forward it on to someone else, or blog about it themselves, or post it to Digg or Reddit or Slashdot or Fark or any other such thing — and that generates more traffic and interest and page views from new readers, who we hope subscribe to the RSS feed and become regular readers as well.