Full vs. Partial Feeds.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by JABacchetta, Mar 7, 2011.

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    Do you publish full or partial feeds and why?

    I'm trying to figure out the logic to allowing full feeds. Readers get your content for free, and you get what exactly?

    In my view, who cares if someone unsubscribes over a partial feed. It's not like they were visiting your site to begin with. And if they do visit, it's probably the same person who has adblock enabled. So in reality, they're eating up your bandwidth and nothing more, which basically means you're paying them to visit your website.

    Less than 1% of my revenue is coming from feed monetization. And only around 10% of feed readers actually click through to the website on any given month.

    If I were to go to partial feeds, I might lose 10% of my subscribers (or I might not), but surely click through rates would triple.

    So before I make the decision to go with partial feeds, can someone enlighten me on what their thought process is in allowing full feeds?
     
    JABacchetta, Mar 7, 2011 IP