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Side Note About RSS Feeds

August 10, 2011 by Mary

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Earlier I changed my rss feeds to summary instead of full text because it’s been bothering me that scammers use my content from the rss feed to sell diet pills and other crap. Unfortunately this didn’t fly to well with readers (20 or so of you jumped ship immediately…thanks). So I’m changing it back. Please don’t leave? I love yall, I just got tired of seeing my personal life and photos on awful websites. But yeah, I’d rather do what makes you guys happy. So back to full text.

Side note over. :)

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  1. Megan says

    August 10, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Aw, sorry to hear you lost so many folks! I wouldn’t have unsubscribed, but I do prefer full feeds and am more likely to read all your posts if they’re in full on G-Reader.

    • Mary says

      August 10, 2011 at 1:02 pm

      Thanks for not unsubscribing! I changed it back so you can read them all in the future. ;)

      • Andrea says

        August 10, 2011 at 4:23 pm

        Yay! I’m the same as Megan, wouldn’t have unsubscribed, but glad you switched back : )

  2. Dave says

    August 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    One way to help combat this is to use an addon for your publishing platform which automatically adds a footer to your RSS feed. On my blog it contains a link back to my blog as well as the exact story it came from.

    This stops the very simplest scrapers, who don’t even bother to edit the content. At the least those folks who see your scraped content will still see a link to your real blog.

    A dedicated scraper can just edit it out, of course, but if they are bothering to edit out a footer, they probably don’t mind following a link in the RSS feed for the full details either, so…

    • Mary says

      August 10, 2011 at 1:02 pm

      Well I have links back to my blog in the feeds which is why I know they are scraping the content from my feeds. It might stop some but there are still about 5 or so I can’t get to stop even with the links back to my site.

  3. Margee says

    August 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    I didn’t jump ship, but so glad you changed it back! Maybe the 20 people who jumped ship were the people spamming?

    • Mary says

      August 10, 2011 at 1:19 pm

      Highly unlikely since spammers set stuff up and generally don’t worry about it.

      Oh well, hopefully no one else goes. And if they do that’s cool too. :)

  4. Kerry says

    August 10, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    I admit that I hate partial feeds, but didn’t even think about unsubscribing because your content is worth it. Sorry for the trouble you’re having with the scrapers!

  5. Karen@WaistingTime says

    August 10, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    I changed mine once and got one comment from one reader but that was enough for me to change it back. And I have since realized I much prefer the full posts too:)

  6. Truc says

    August 10, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    thank you!! Not gonna lie, I thought about unsubscribing. Probably wouldn’t have, but I am definitely lazy enough that I wouldn’t have clicked through regularly.

    *back to previously scheduled lurking*

  7. Allison says

    August 10, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    Yeah I didn’t jump ship immediately, but I probably would have after a few more posts. Nothing specific against you of course, but I do all my reading in google reader, and if the full post doesn’t show up I don’t read it! (Lazy…I admit it. :))

    • Mary says

      August 10, 2011 at 2:36 pm

      I don’t take it personally. I understand which is why I switched back. :)

  8. Jenn says

    August 10, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Terrible that you’re getting scammed that way.

    I’m assuming I must be the ONLY person who doesn’t use greader!!!

  9. Kate N. says

    August 10, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    It really sucks about the scrapers, but yay for full feed! Though i have a plugin to grab the full feed in GReader, partial feeds are not my favorite. Roni wrote a post about it last year:
    http://roninoone.com/2010/08/10/one-simple-way-to-stick-it-to-scrapers/

    Not sure if any of the suggestions will help but its worth a shot (Read the comments about the picture links :)

    • Mary says

      August 10, 2011 at 8:08 pm

      Yeah I’ve read her post and others on the issue but even with things like that some scrapers will still take the content. It’s lame but I guess it’s just how it goes? Eh.

  10. Lorinda @ Waisting Away says

    August 10, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    I didn’t realize that full posts could be an issue, interesting. I thought it was just personal preference….

    I definitely prefer full posts but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. You didn’t need those readers anyway!!

  11. erin says

    August 10, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    I don’t even understand how the whole scraper thing works, but I too am glad you changed it back. Of course, you have my unwavering devotion either way. I love your blog. :)

  12. merri says

    August 11, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    oddly enough, i find it easier to read blogs on the actual blogs than in a reader. i have google reader but i rarely use it, and since i like to comment so much, i usually end up clicking through that link to the actual blog to comment anyway. so a summary wouldnt have bothered me at all, had i even noticed it happening. :)

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