Full Feed or Excerpt only in RSS Feeds?
I was initially providing excerpted feeds only. However I switched over to full feed format.
Recently I noticed several aggregator sites cropping up which uses my feed content in full and serves its own advertisements, in some cases not even attributing it properly! That is not fair. So I included a copyright notice with the feed. Also I am experimenting with Ads in feeds. Lets see how it goes
In the process I am becoming more and more proficient in PHP. All of this was accomplished with a plugin. If you are interested express so in comments.
At least 100 comments or more will trigger me to wrap it up with documentation for you all ![]()
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August 29th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Got my first aggregator site taking my feed today.
Thanks to your plugin he got a blaring copyright message on his site.
I really am gonna broadcast your plugin to every now
October 28th, 2006 at 10:35 am
[...] Jack of All Blogs used to be fun when he slagged off everyone, even though I didn’t get half of the inside jokes. Now he’s recycling shopworn articles about whether to publish full or excerpted RSS feeds — see here and here and here and here and even here, where (in August 2005!) it’s called the “age-old debate”. – Feeds, site, excerpts or full — dull. Next! [...]
May 1st, 2007 at 2:08 am
Thanks to your plugin he got a blaring copyright message on his site.