Comments on: Something rotten in the crotch of RSS? http://coreygo.com/index.php/2005/11/27/something-rotten-in-the-crotch-of-rss/ thoughts of the convoluted Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:07:37 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jake Ludington http://coreygo.com/index.php/2005/11/27/something-rotten-in-the-crotch-of-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Jake Ludington Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:16:59 +0000 http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2005/11/27/SomethingRottenInTheCrotchOfRSS.aspx#comment-117 There's two very good reasons not to offer full text: 1) Sites who regularly rip off other people's content have a field day with full text. Nothing makes me madder than seeing someone else generating ad dollars from articles I invested my time in researching and writing. 2) If I offer full text, I don't get paid for my time. I might lose a few people reading the feeds, but the revenue increase I gained from turning off full text on my own feeds made up for any ubergeeks who no longer subscribe. As long as you don't care about generating revenue from your blog, then full text is certainly the way to go. There's two very good reasons not to offer full text:

1) Sites who regularly rip off other people's content have a field day with full text. Nothing makes me madder than seeing someone else generating ad dollars from articles I invested my time in researching and writing.

2) If I offer full text, I don't get paid for my time. I might lose a few people reading the feeds, but the revenue increase I gained from turning off full text on my own feeds made up for any ubergeeks who no longer subscribe.

As long as you don't care about generating revenue from your blog, then full text is certainly the way to go.

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