There is some debate as to whether you should publish your RSS feed as a full feed, so that your reader can read the whole post without visiting your site, or as a partial feed which forces the reader to visit if they want to read the whole article.
I choose to publish a full feed, as I personally don’t like partial feeds and rarely subscribe to them. People who endorse partial feeds say that it encourages the reader to visit your blog, and make comments and view your ads etc. One blogger who does endorse full feeds is Darren Rowse, and he has written some recent articles about how to enhance your full feeds to encourage your readers to visit your blog.
If this polling widget works, I’d love to know whether you offer full or partial feeds-feel free to expand further in the comments about your choice. Observant readers will note that I’m encouraging my RSS subscribers to visit the blog 
This polling box is an ‘iframe’ so you may need to temporarily disable your ad-blocker to see it - thanks.
14 users commented in " Full Or Partial RSS Feeds - What’s Your Choice? "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI voted for full feeds. The ONLY gripe I have with full feeds is with content scrapping. It makes it so easy for sploggers to rip your content and monetize it for their own benefit.
I just had to deal with yet another blog yesterday who stole all my posts and inserted his own affiliate links. Sheesh.
Another one? I wish there was a way of feeding these people some evil content…
I’ve noticed a few of my posts pop up on other blogs apparently through ‘autoblogging’ software. They’re still linked to me which is how I find them, but what’s the point?
Are they just ‘aging’ a new blog, or trying to get some Google PR or something?
Good luck taking them down - and thanks for voting!
You get what you get with mine. I have no clue if its is full or part
I get full from you Erika, which is good
It’s easily changed in the Blogger control panel, under the options.
I always do full feeds. I never read other feeds that are partial, so why would I expect others to read mine?
Also, I typically add pictures to close to 100% of my posts. I find that content scrapers rarely pull in the pictures, and many of my posts are meaningless without the pics.
That’s a very good point about images Anita, I really should add more to Blog-Op.
The poll’s running 90% in favour of full feeds with 11 votes cast, so I think most agree.
hi, Chris,
You mentioned before that you read my Sunflower blog with Google reader.
Is it full or partial?
I will Exercise for Comments!
Sunflower
Full
I publish full feeds… I don’t want to “force” anybody to actually visit my blog if they consider rss an easier way to read it.
I switched from partial to full, though I buggered up the coding on my create rss script so its a bit wacky at times.
The formatting on it is also a bit buggered, it doesn’t seem to keep its tags even though I don’t strip any of them. Yes my blog is self-coded. It’s alot more fun but it can be more work.
A self-coded blog? (bows down in respect) :O
Oh…it looks like I forgot to comment on this post.
Chris actually helped me figure out how to enable this feature and now I am offering full RSS feeds.
Thanks again Chris…sorry it took me so long to get back & comment about this!
[...] Text Feed - There is a huge debate on whether you want to use full text RSS feeds or partial RSS feeds. Decide for yourself, but [...]
Leave A Reply