Seems like a bad idea for any blog that sells ad space.

Another instance of the vocal minority getting their way.

Thanks for your thoughts.

My ads are sold on a per impression or per click basis so they are what they are whether a reader visits or not. I’m way more concerned about what my readers want. In fact, I would do away with advertising completely if enough readers complained.

One sure thing about readers is that they are concerned about themselves, not you, not your blog.

I hope it works better for you, but I doubt it will add to the growth of your blog.

Being concerned about your readers sounds noble, but it’s really not.

Without the readers seeing all the other bits of info and other chances to sample your content, share it with others, etc., full feeds are really just a slow death for a blog.

Good luck in getting it to grow without the full page being in front of the reader.

Why have a homepage if your readers never see it ?

Why put up the banners, why sell ads, why the buttons, why the links ?

Good luck with feed ” readers “.

That simply is not true that full text is a slow death for a blog. I will not read a blog that is not full text and the only reason I still subscribed to this one is because John is local, and when I emailed him about going full text, he said he would look at it. But I would almost never click through the rss to the actual site. In fact, I would usually ignore his posts all together just because it was a pain in the ass. Look at the top blogs in feedster and technorati…how many of them are full text? how many of them are dead. The only death to a blog is a lack of effort by the owner.

Tim

The whole point of RSS is not only to be notified of new content but to gain access to the full content through my preferred method – for instance, an RSS aggregator. Syndicating only the summary is really, really annoying, forcing the visitor to go back to the browser and read the blog that way. If you’re subscribed to more than 10 blogs, this extra click can really kill all the joy. I know several people that completely ignore a blog if it doesn’t provide full text syndication, regardless of how great it might be. No flexible access to content? Not worth reading.

It is true that getting the content through RSS means those people will not access your site with their browsers; consequently, they will not get you any revenue from ads that are no longer displayed. But, at one point you have to decide which is more valuable: a few more bucks a day, or a whole crowd of happy readers which ocasionally give you some great feedback. Today’s faithful reader could be tomorrow’s business partner.

After having typed out a response and hitting submit, I find out that this blog only allows 1500 characters in the comments and I had typed 1932.

Once again, John, your blog does something to hinder it’s readers.

Shame for that info not being shown BEFORE I wasted my time.

I’ve posted my reply on my blog, rather thna fight this system and it’s faults.

http://simplenomics.com/full-feeds-or-excerpts-for-blogs/

You’re welcome to click thru and read.

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