Full RSS vs Summary RSS

September 27, 2007

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There have been many discussions about adding Full RSS into your blog or Summary RSS. I will add some points on why adding full rss or Summary rss.

There are many people that register to your RSS if only they are full RSS

Adding full RSS you will have many scrapper sites copying your content. That is one of the reasons I added Summary RSS instead of Full in Googlelady.com After announcing that I have turned back to Full RSS there have been 5 scrapper sites copying my content. So I made it back to Summary rss and some post full

Some bloggers add full rss and spend hours searching and contacting bloggers to remove their content (is useless) that’s why bloggers add some links between the post so they can get extra backlinks from the scrappers (which is also useless because usually those sites doesn’t rank well).

Summary RSS give you the opportunity to have more visitors to your blog

Having more visitors to your blog (directly) you will have more control to monetize your blog

Nowadays, you can monetize your RSS but you don’t have 100% control on it

Summary RSS will give you less people to subscribe on your RSS

Nowadays, many affiliate programs or contextual advertising programs rank your blog depends on your RSS a good example is Text Link Ads

Now is your decision to make it full or Summary RSS.

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4 Responses to “Full RSS vs Summary RSS”

1. Nick Bakewell said:
   

   September 27th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

   It’s a hard choice. I offer full RSS right now, but your mention of scrapper sites scares me. A lot of the big league blogs offer full RSS, I wonder how they protect their content.

2. GoogleLady said:
   

   September 28th, 2007 at 2:37 am

   I don’t think there is a method to really protect your content from scappers offering full RSS. But what other bloggers usually do is add a link from your site or other article so like this you first give you extra backlinks from those scrappers sites and the readers from scappers sites knows from where it has been copied.

3. Jane Richardson said:
   

   September 28th, 2007 at 8:27 am

   I’m just wondering what your objections are to someone scraping your content? I suppose in the situation where someone is not linking back, but just using the raw text, this would be bad.
   Even so, if you are offering RSS you expect to get syndicated!
   BTW I’m distributing an excellent ebook about monetizing blogs, it’s free so download
   Monetize Your Blog!

4. GoogleLady said:
   

   September 28th, 2007 at 9:44 am

   Of course will be bad and another point is that are using your text/article so is not unique anymore.

   About the ebook just downloaded but will take time to read, hope is usefull and not just like other ebooks (and bunch of affiliate links)

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