Comments on: Google RSS Feeds for Search Results in Blogsearch and FriendConnect Maybe http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=182 Social marketing tactics, tips, tricks, tools and strategies by social bookmarking expert, Chris Lang Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Lang http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=182&cpage=1#comment-14913 Chris Lang Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:51:34 +0000 http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=182#comment-14913 @ Rafay Bin Ali, while you are right, RSS is a standard, you can still alter the format. Many blog posts offer no body at all, to read anything but the title, you have to click thru to the post. Many feeds only offer a description or synopsis and then you have to click thru to the post to read the body. RSS is a standard, the format is open to customization and interpretation. What I was getting at here is that most RSS subscribers DO NOT want to leave their RSS reader to read the body of the blog post. Hence, when you offer only a blurb of the body and not the full body text you make people unhappy because they do not want to leave their RSS reader to go to your blog. RSS is a XML coding standard, a format is just that, they are not the same thing. You do not have to add the <body> XML tag, you can just leave it out and only display the headline. Make sense? @ Rafay Bin Ali, while you are right, RSS is a standard, you can still alter the format. Many blog posts offer no body at all, to read anything but the title, you have to click thru to the post.

Many feeds only offer a description or synopsis and then you have to click thru to the post to read the body. RSS is a standard, the format is open to customization and interpretation.

What I was getting at here is that most RSS subscribers DO NOT want to leave their RSS reader to read the body of the blog post. Hence, when you offer only a blurb of the body and not the full body text you make people unhappy because they do not want to leave their RSS reader to go to your blog.

RSS is a XML coding standard, a format is just that, they are not the same thing. You do not have to add the XML tag, you can just leave it out and only display the headline. Make sense?

]]> By: Rafay Bin Ali http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=182&cpage=1#comment-14908 Rafay Bin Ali Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:00:53 +0000 http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=182#comment-14908 Hello, what do you mean by "A real RSS feed gives me the full article, not just some headlines." RSS is a standardized format. It does not contain any nodes for full length articles. Even if it did, how many items would realistically be accomodated in one feed. RSS gives you the ability to go through items and then read through whatever interests you the most. That is its purpose. Hello, what do you mean by “A real RSS feed gives me the full article, not just some headlines.”

RSS is a standardized format. It does not contain any nodes for full length articles. Even if it did, how many items would realistically be accomodated in one feed. RSS gives you the ability to go through items and then read through whatever interests you the most. That is its purpose.

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