clipped by: mirzania
clipper’s remarks: Of course, the choice isn’t always yours to make as some blog sites only let you publish a partial feed. Interesting debate here though.
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February 16th, 2007 by Steven Bradley (a.k.a. vangogh)
The Pros and Cons
Full feeds are the likely preference of those readers who are also bloggers or journalists. These are the readers who will link to your blog and providing them with full feeds makes it more likely they will read your post and consequently link to you.
Full feeds allow your posts to be read off your site so there’s less taxing of your bandwidth and your posts can still be ready even if if there’s a temporary problem with your server.
Partial feeds require people to come to your site meaning they see your ads, which theoretically means you make more money.
Partial feeds protect you from content theft since scrapers are less likely to republish only a summary of your post.
For me the two main issues are the first and last above.
Until today I had considered the potential content theft to be the biggest issue, but now I’m not so sure.
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