Since I’ve lost what little income I had from readers coming to this site instead of reading it all in their aggregator, I figured I could switch serving a full RSS feed instead of the summarized one I am serving now, even if this means going against the current trend.
So, without further ado, it’s done. I hope my current readers are happy and now even Scoble will syndicate me ;).
However, I have one small advice for all those who’d like to post full feeds while at the same time entice readers to come visit their site: put at least one link to an archived post in every item.
I will also explore other possible revenue sources, like FeedBurner, and keep an eye on upcoming initiatives, like this one:
We’re left with a quandary. Publish a full feed to get noticed and bow to the ‘I like to read offline’ pressure or excerpts so people will have to visit your site to finish reading–and hopefully click on an ad or two. What if you could just click a button an imbed an ad into your post? What if that ad could go where ever you published it, but not tied to a specific feed? Hmm, what if.
Update: looks like also Jeremy doesn’t like partial feeds and even Chris Pirillo caved in. So, is the trend I was referring to above already inverting?
I’m subscribing to your feed just to support your decision to switch to full-text feeds! Note: I don’t read ANY blogs that partial-post their feeds