Interesting Way I increased Feed Subscribers

[AdamF24]

I'm really surprised at how much of a difference this made, so I wanted to share this with all of you. My web site's feed originally only showed every post up to the "<!--more-->" a.k.a. "continue reading this article" point (which was usually after the first paragraph). I didn't really like the way this looked, so I removed the "<!--more-->" from all of my posts and allowed my feed to show the entire post.

Since then, my subscriber count has nearly doubled. And I haven't written a post in almost a week!

I'm new to the feeds, so I initially assumed people only cared about having a feed notify them when a web site posts something new. But now I see it's more than that; subscribers want to know of new posts and be able to read it without having to visit the site.

[Hugh Hollowell]

Practically every blogger that uses full feeds has the same experience. Full feeds rock!

In fact, of the over 100 feeds I subscribe to, I refuse to subscribe to any that are only partials... many folks agree with me.

[Brutha]

Yeah, I also hate particials. I still subscribe to some non-full feeds but I would really like when they were full instead.

[AdamF24]

I guess I'm just old fashioned. I really don't care if they are partial or full. If it's a quality site, all I care is that I'm notified that they've posted something new.

Although I could see the annoyance with partial feeds if the site posted short entries and the partial feed was half of the post by itself.

[DrMartinRussell]

Really appreciate you putting this out there for everyone.

I assume the default is to do the full feed. Is that correct?

[AdamF24]

Well if you are using the Feed offered by Wordpress, you can dictate how you want it to show.

But of course we all use Feedburner. It seems Feedburner just displays the full post by default. However if you are like me, you use the "Continue Reading"/<!-- more -- > function, and this causes the feed to only show up that point.

The way I was able to allow the feed to show the full post while still maintaining the "Continue reading..." functionality on my web site was to remove the "<!-- more -->" from all of my posts, and told Wordpress to use post excerpts instead of full posts for the web site.

[DrMartinRussell]

Originally Posted by AdamF24

Well if you are using the Feed offered by Wordpress, you can dictate how you want it to show.

But of course we all use Feedburner. It seems Feedburner just displays the full post by default. However if you are like me, you use the "Continue Reading"/<!-- more -- > function, and this causes the feed to only show up that point.

The way I was able to allow the feed to show the full post while still maintaining the "Continue reading..." functionality on my web site was to remove the "<!-- more -->" from all of my posts, and told Wordpress to use post excerpts instead of full posts for the web site.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Adam. I do use Feedburner, but I keep my WordPress blog showing all the post so I'm fine.