If your RSS feed is being “scraped” and republished in full somewhere else — as is currently happening to my main blog, Consumerism Commentary — you run two important risks. First of all, your scraper is likely pasting ads alongside your content on his website, trying to earn income directly off your hard efforts. […]

Just a quick note to talk a bit about the power of writing a ‘Welcome’ post when you receive a big link. This morning, FiveCentNickel was featured in the NY Times (along with a number of other sites). Jim from pfBlueprint actually tipped me off to it last night shortly after the article went live.
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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 […]

I’ve recently been debating the merits of partial vs. full-text RSS feeds on fivecentnickel.com and raising4boys.com. Truth be told, I much prefer full-text feeds when it comes to keeping track of sites, but I’ve actually been offering partial-text feeds on my own sites. The main reason for this is that it drives me nuts when […]