How Might Google Be Ranking Your Blog?

Bill Slawski found a new patent on overview of the patent, explaining things and making simple for the rest of us. Bill was also nice enough to highlight some of the main factors that might affect blog ranking in this full feeds over partial feeds? Wouldn’t publishing a partial feed be significantly different than what’s offered in the post itself? Is there anything inherently wrong with publishing a partial feed or even a descriptive snippet instead of the full feed? And what about blogs that provide extra ‘feed only’ content to entice people to subscribe? I can understand the intent here as a way to uncover cloaking through RSS feeds, but I think there are still valid reasons to present different content in feeds and posts.

Having posts the same or roughly the same size reminds me when I asked if there was an Comments