Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Ever wondered why mrbrown and cowboycaleb have more pageviews than you?

Quite a long time ago (probably last year), mrbrown and I had a discussion. I do not recall if that discussion was in person, via msn messenger or email due to the amazing changes of lifestyle that the Intarwebs has wrought us.

Our discussion was more of a bitching session. And what we were bitchin about was bloggers who only syndicate partial text feeds.

Don’t know what I’m talking about?

A partial feed looks like this:

So I’m so excited and then he says “You complete me” which makes me so hot so I begin peeling off my panties and use my fingers to clutch his big hard hot throbbin…. (click here to read more)

Frustrating isn’t it? We both decided that partial text feeds was such a hideous thing that we would only ever only ever only ever only ever only syndicate full text feeds for our blogs.

Fast forward to today – mrbrown has finally found confirmation that full text feeds do actually increase page views, and he emailed the link to me.

full text feeds actually does lead to more page views, though understanding why is a little more involved. Full text feeds makes the reading process much easier. It means it’s that much more likely that someone reads the full piece and actually understands what’s being said — which makes it much, much, much more likely that they’ll then forward it on to someone else, or blog about it themselves, or post it to Digg or Reddit or Slashdot or Fark or any other such thing — and that generates more traffic and interest and page views from new readers

So for those of you bloggers who are still syndicating partial feeds – please switch to full text feeds. (I’m giving you a dirty look, Nadnut).

It’s worked out for mrbrown so far, he’s by far our most popular blogger. So you can’t go wrong with that!

Kenny Sia has, like, approximately 15000 hits a day and he syndicates his feeds in full.

Couldn’t agree more!

Please give the dirty look to the following people too:

1) Barffie
2) Fitti
3) Jesuafreak
4) Sheylara
5) Thiang

I find partial feeds inconvenient. It kills some of my interest in reading posts. Hope I can spread this message around.

*runs away*

But I want everyone to look at my lovely clouds and rainbow layout! :P

Meh.

You guys are popular because you write about INTERESTING SH1T. I would still read your blogs if you had partial feeds.

Myself, i read blogs to ‘read’. I don’t read blogs to see 1000 photos of the blogger … that is only useful for those amongst us you love to stalk, and live vicariously through others.

Mine partial feed meh? I have never checked my feed settings HAHAHAHA :P

Hongkiat has more than 40,000 page views a day and I think it’s not only the full feed syndications, but how he cross-link relevant contents.