I’ve seen much comment and discussion about the practice of Summarizing Rss Feeds.
The idea behind doing this, is to encourage those that take your feed to come to your blog. They get interested enough in reading the first two or three hundred words of your latest article, that they click on the ‘more’ link.
This gets more folks to actually visit your blog, as you’re using the feed as a ‘teaser’ and this means more folks will click thru on your ads if you’re monetizing your blog. That’s the theory anyway.
The other side of the coin is that many people won’t bother clicking to read the full article on your site, and in fact many of those that take your feed will simply discontinue doing so.
Now, I am aware that feed subscribers go up and down. Hopefully your feed count goes up in bigger steps than it goes down, so it’s always gradually increasing, even if on a saw-tooth kind of flow.
Last evening, I finally got around to moving all my RSS feeds over to Google proper, from Feedburner. Google takes care of the re-direction.
Now this morning, I was checking around, and I noticed that one of one sites feed counts had dropped by some 30% overnight. There’s a lot of factors here.
- It just happened that way – well perhaps, but 30% in on go?
- Google screwed up the re-direct? I don’t think so, or almost 100% of the subscribers would have gone.
- The ‘summary burner’ tab somehow got switched on in the move. This was what I found upon investigation, and in fact, only the first 400 words were being delivered, with a ‘read more’ link after that.
We’ll see of course. I’ve now de-activated the summary burner option, so the full feed will again display, and we’ll see if the count goes back up.
I hate Feeds that only include a summary. With so many sources of content that isn't truncated, it's pretty easy to simply ignore sites that don't make their content easy to consume.
I totally agree with you Ed. I must admit that when I first started with Feeds, I took the summary route in the belief it would drive more listeners to my blogs. However, the more I thought about it, the more I could see that was counter-productive. I don't click on 'read more' links unless it's a VERY interesting post, or a MUST HAVE bit of information.
Wisdom teeth is a nonsense.
What to me pleasure of what at me in 25-30 years has grown a teeth without which I already easily manage for a long time?
Where they were, when I in a youth teeth opened bottles with beer because it was abruptly? When I clicked a teeth nuts?
And then, why from name “Wisdom teeth” – I that, somehow in another way to chew has learnt? Not how earlier when I was the young fool? Whether business if to years to 30 grew, for example, wisdom fingers! Better, of course, on each hand on the additional index. But on the second big – too it is normal. And then it would be wisdom fingers – because now I precisely know, for what I should seize both hands, to hold strong-strong and never to release. Or from what to wave away – yes, now I know, from what I should wave away very much, sometimes so there is no pair of superfluous fingers on hands that from it to wave away.
Or here, a wisdom eye. It is necessary certainly, to change the passport by 30 years because you on a forehead had one more eye… Well also I represent, as it will be scratched. When it begins to be cut through – hard, yes. But – what pleasure to look in three eyes at that, on what you could not see enough in both in any way… And points cool can be carried – represent, what turn the fashion industry can make!
I ask me to excuse, it is simple a teeth strongly are ill
Probably one of the hardest things anyone can do is try and learn something new. Congrats to anyone who tries.
Probably one of the hardest things anyone can do is try and learn something new. Congrats to anyone who tries.
Probably one of the hardest things anyone can do is try and learn something new. Congrats to anyone who tries.