I know that I personally prefer when a blog’s homepage show a full article rather than summaries where you must click to read more. The question crossed my mind a week or so ago if others shared my like of full feeds or if readers would prefer a partial feed.

Apparently people have strong opinions about partial feeds similar to a passionate Ford owner’s dislike of Chevy’s.

Invesp, who is willing giving away $400 to a random RSS subscriber, is receiving a consistent complaint about the fact that their blog is a partial feed.

Khalid from Invesp links to a post from Graywolf where he says, “If you’re an SEO blogger and you publish a partial feed I’m putting you on notice, August 1st I’m dropping you from my RSS reader.” Graywolf goes on to explain his reasons in this post.

Of course not everyone hates them. Commenter Richard Dows says that he prefers the partial feed because he uses his RSS reader to skim.  However, this type of headline only reading could cost a blog owner important opportunities to engage with readers.  Of course readers are going to skim, but when they only have headlines to skim, they miss subheadings that might catch their attention and calls to engage in discussion like the one below.

What do You Think?

What is your opinion on partial feeds? Are you more likely to read them or just skim through the summaries and never become engaged? Does your blog have a partial feed? If so, have you received any feedback from readers?

Life is Good.  David Williams Co-Founder Create Business Growth

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