I spend half my life trying to be organized, I think it just keeps me busy, like I’m being productive or something..I used to have blogs for entertainment but now, too busy. I think I need to get back to different blogs just because I want to. I now have my full feed in the reader.

Hello Mike:

You make a great point and one to really give some thought to. If the blogger wants the reader to go to the blog, rather than putting an excerpt in the reader, hopefully they write a post compelling enough to get a reaction out of the reader to make them want to go to the blog.

I also realized, from this discussion and from the previous post I mentioned about RSS readers, that it should be the reader who decides if they will be going to the blog, not the blogger. Therefore, the full post of my blog is in the feed reader. The blogger’s responsibility is, as you say, making the post compelling enough for the reader to want to go to the blog.

I go to blogs from the reader when there is something that I want to comment on or if I would like to see what others have to say about the post.

I provide the full feeds for my blogs and I prefer blogs that have full feeds. There are a few in my feedreader that use excerpts and I find it a little irritating when the full feed isn’t there.

I realize from this topic that, if I want people to come to my blog from their feedreader, I need to give them a reason for visiting, like posing a question that they’re gonna want to answer in the comments or writing an engaging post that elicits comments.

This is an interesting topic — and one that I’ve seen discussed before. In fact, it was because a previous discussion that I went to full feeds.

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With my own blog, I have the entire post viewable on the reader.

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My reader keeps me organized. I have my favorites all in one place and listed first, then my resource blogs, etc. I always go to the blog itself, but that’s just my preference so I decided to give the choice to my readers rather than choosing for them. That is annoying!

FFB:

I have only been using a reader for a few months and just the opposite of you, I usually go right to the site. I use the reader more of an organizing tool to have all my favorite blogs in one area.

I disagree about the savvy reader not clicking on ads. Ads aren’t trickery, they can be useful information for certain people and hopefully they are matched with the right person at the right time.

My site lists my full post in the reader so feel free to sign up for a reader subscription!

Money, Money, Money:

I actually have more readers via email than subscriber and I can see where a partial feed would be very annoying. People just wouldn’t take the extra time to click through unless the post is very compelling. I didn’t really give that enough thought. Thanks for the tip.

CJ:

I have only used WordPress for my blog platform and there is an option in Settings – Reading that lets you choose partial or full feeds. I think the default is full feed. Should have taken the hint right there. When you read the full post in your reader do you ever click through to the site? If yes, why?

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