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If you use Movable Type, it may not be by default that your RSS 2.0 feed that is generated gives you full text. If so, then check out this link to make your feed compatable to the BurtBlog desires:
http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000342.html
I was guilty of this myself, apparently WordPress 2.0 doesn’t do this by default. Thanks to Eileen at BlogBurst she pointed out the easy fix:
“Go into your Wordpress template and click the ‘Options’ menu tab. Under that click the ‘Reading’ subtab and you should see a place to change your settings for each article to show “full text” as opposed to “summary.” Click on Update Options to save.”
I’m not sure I understand the logic of that. I don’t know about anyone else, but we’re tasked with increasing traffic to our website. If traffic drops, it’s deemed a failure. That’s most assuredly what would happen if we switched to full text feeds.
If our feeds are now full text and being displayed in their entirety, there’s no incentive for readers to visit the website. If your site relies on advertising revenue, less traffic means less ability to sell ads, which could kill some of the smaller sites out there. We want users to visit the site, explore it and realize the benefit of the tools there.
Lastly, the RSS spec seems pretty clear: the description field’s intended use is for the “synopsis” of the article, not the full text.
Of *course* your publishers want the full text…it’s like getting a free data feed! Why pay for someone’s news feed when we can partner with a company that can get it to us for free?
Am I missing something here?!?
Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …