Movements suck when they effect you because you then have to get up off your butt and do something. Ethan started a movement to publish the full content in your feed. So I had to go and make sure mine was on full feed, and it was, so I am safe… but I still had the check! Geeze, what I do for blogging :)
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Interestingly, this post was a partial in my feed reader. Weird.
That’s because I switched it again. After some further thought I decided that I don’t agree with him. No matter what you say, there is more to a blog than content. Yes content is important but this is as well, comments, you can’t see the discussion through the feed. Also, I am proud of the theme you created for me and I want to show it off. All Ethan is, is an elitest, if you don’t agree with him you are an idiot and greedy.
I don’t think it’s about being an elitist or not. I just think it’s about sharing. When I read a good post in my feedreader and feel I have something to contribute I always click on over and put in my two cents. I just don’t like having to click over to a site, realize that it’s a crappy post, and then have to click back to my feedreader. I think the primary arguments for having partial feeds are:
1. I want people to see my design (which is probably the best argument of the bunch)
2. I need page hits to make money
I obviously don’t buy reason #2 and as for reason #1, well, yeah, there’s more to a blog than content, but content is the only thing that matters to a blog. The design is gravy, the content is the meat. I have been offering a full site feed since I got into 9rules and I have only seen my page hits go up up up which means that more and more people are seeing my design. My point is that offering a partial feed doesn’t automatically equate to more page hits. In fact, it’s often the opposite that’s true.
Ben, I highly doubt the reason you get so many hits is because you offer full site feed, it’s not a coincidence that your page hits went up after you got accepted into 9 rules.
Here I am going to be completely honest right now, yes, deep at the root of it all it is about the money. I made 2 goals when I first got this domain, and I need to achieve at least one of them to continue this blog.
1. make it into 9 rules
2. if I don’t make it into 9 rules my site needs to pay for it’s self.
The fact is I don’t make enough money outside this blog to spend $20 a month. There are a lot better things I could spend the $20 on that would help Jenny and I out. I went for the cheapest hosting service this round, $30 for a year, and frankly I am embarrassed of that. Now if I was able to make something of this blog and get accepted to 9 rules I could justify the $20 but it doesn’t look like that’s going to be happening any time soon, so I need the stupid pointless page hits.
and if you haven’t noticed I have 9 subscribers anyway.
Right, I totally agree with you on all points. But whether you offer a full feed or a partial feed doesn’t affect your traffic. But…it could possibly affect how many people subscribe to your blog. Also, your text link ads are independent from your traffic. That is to say that it doesn’t matter what kind of traffic you have on your blog that they care about, they care about your page rank. Your page rank can only go up if more people link to you. My point is that a full feed probably won’t hurt your traffic but a partial feed could.
hmm, I guess I see your point. I thought the page rank had to do with hits as well, now I feel foolish.