Full or Partial Feeds

Since the day I began posting on my blog I’ve always published partial feeds of my content. I’ll be honest in that I don’t remember why I made the decision originally, though I suspect it had something to do with not wanting all my content scraped and republished. Until an hour ago I had always thought the partial feed decision was the best way to go. Then I read a single post and did a little research and I now think I may have been wrong all this time.

The post in question was Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds ?

* Scoble Nails It: Why Full Text Feeds Are GOOD

* Sage for my RSS reading, which provides a list of post titles in Firefox’s sidebar. It really makes no difference to me how the blogs I subscribe to are published since I’m really just looking at a title and then deciding whether or not to read.

But not everyone is me and so I took a look at some feeds that I have added to Switching to Partial Text RSS Feed - Vote Your Opinion. If you read down to the comments you can see the majority prefer the full feed and when I look at the SEOmoz feed today it is being published in full.

I switched this blog to publish in full before sitting down to write this post and I’m going to give the full feed a try and see what happens. I like the idea of being able to offer both types of feeds so you can choose the subscription you prefer and I’ll look into finding a way to do that.

So what’s your preference? Do you prefer full or partial feeds? In the end I want to publish the feed you prefer to read.

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