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A couple of weeks ago I switched to full-text RSS feeds on both FiveCentNickel and Raising4Boys (details here and here). Now that a bit of time has passed, I thought I’d write a bit about what has happened so far…

First, RSS subscribership is up a bit on both sites. That being said, it’s hard to say if this is just natural growth (perhaps accompanied by a small initial bump from the announcement) or if things are actually accelarating.

Second, site traffic is growing, as well. Here again, it’s hard to say if that’s natural growth. On FiveCentNickel in particular, the biggest driver of traffic growth appears to has been an increase in search referrals.

Third, I have no idea if scraping has become an increasing problem, because I haven’t really checked. I was getting scraped before, and I’m sure that I’m still getting scraped.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, all the readers that I’ve heard from seem quite happy with the change.