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I would rather use feed on my blog rather than on my website, why should we take risk of sand box.

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I don't use RSS feeds on my site.  What I want to say is that I prefer  partial RSS feeds to full ones.  From the RSS feed headlines I only choose the ones which interests me and that saves me a lot of time. 

I have noticed that since I have added a widget RSS Feed to my site  -   Self Defense Products Florida my site has went from page one to page two on many keywords. Could this just be a coincidence or does anyone think RSS Feeds from Widgets are being penalized? Also, would this be considered a partial or full feed?? Thanks for any feedback...

Good topic, and explanation.

Simple to complex works for me:
No one reads over 5 lines of an email and probably the same for a feed. If I'm interested I'll pursue the link.

Do you get 'full' content credit from the feeds you host or just partial with search engines?

Also curious if blockquoted content credits back to the author or to the site referencing the content? (From a search engine's viewpoint)

I use full RSS feeds on my store but partials for the blogs. I think Jason is right in preferring partials feeds for blogs. I use my oscommerce fork SEOPerfectCart to submit my stores full RSS feed to GoogleBase, but only submit partial feeds for my blogs to the blog directories.  It would be nice to give someone the full story on their RSS reader but if they do not visit your site the feed wont be their very long. As far as products are concerned the description in the RSS feed may lead them to click and check it out.

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Glad to read your info, thank you  and Best wishes ! Angel

I have RSS feed on my web page : http://www.dynamicleather.com  where I sell leather motorcycle jackets, leather vests, leather chaps. But I have no problem with it.

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I agree with Allister and Chris.  RSS feeds should be displayed as title and summary.  Anything more will take away from your users experience.  Unless, your entire site is a feed and there are a few of those. 

It is interesting to note that of the 300 web sites who have registered to use our FeedSweep widget to display feeds only 1 displays more than title and summary.

To end the debate - base this decision on your site visitors reactions.

Like Allister said, RSS means summary, not full story. All my blogs and the blogs we do for clients are on summary. If someone is unwilling to click on the headline to get the rest of the story, how likely are they to click on anything else I have to offer?

Sidenote: I'm sure glad the captcha only asked me what 1 + 1 is. If you see this comment I was able to get that one right. :)

That's what it was designed for ....RSS... "RDF Site Summary" ... to be a remote index of content at a particular url. Its function changed when the Simple Syndication peeps started using the description element for content.  

Thanks for this post. It allays some of my fears related to full rss. You made a point about browsing there. I like to read the eye catching headlines rather than browsing the full page. If I like the topic, I clik to read the rest of the article.