6 comments for Google Blog Search – Another Reason to Publish Full-Text RSS Feeds

1. Sorry Josh,
   not a good enough reason for me. Publishing full feeds = spam blogs running my full posts as opposed to my part posts from the feed. It also means less eyeballs on site where my ads are. RSS advertising doesn’t work for me, and from other accounts its returns are very small. I’m not in the business of providing content for others for free without being able to drive in some dollars to support the enterprise, it takes far too much time as it is (the ROI is poor) and why the hell would I want to make it poorer.

   Comment by Duncan Riley — September 14, 2005 @ 6:27 pm

   
   

2. Besides, doesn’t Google’s “regular” bot index all of a site’s content anyway? I don’t really care whether Google thinks I’m a blog or not and I also don’t the majority of “regular folk” out there care whether a site that is or interest to them is a blog or not.

   Comment by Steve Hall — September 14, 2005 @ 6:35 pm

   
   

3. If full feeds are so great, why don’t you provide one? 😉

   This is only slightly tongue-in-cheek. With about 400 feeds in my aggregator, many times I cannot afford going to the website for reading the rest of a post, even if it looks interesting from the excerpt and I increasingly find myself unsubscribing from them.

   Comment by Ugo Cei — September 15, 2005 @ 5:38 am

   
   

4. I think that publishing full feeds is not so good becuase it’s like to spam a blog. In my opinion RSS advertising is not something that can generate lots of money unless you’re a society that produces ONLY RSS feed from the sunrise to the sunset.

   Comment by Marco — September 15, 2005 @ 6:15 am

   
   

5. I’m not sure Google’s regular search updates as quickly as Google’s blog search, at least from my limited experience.

   I would want to appear in both; yesterday I noticed a post get listed in less than an hour (might have been quicker, I just didn’t think to check that quickly.)

   If you’re blogging on something “as it happens”, such as Katrina or John Roberts, you would probably wouldn’t want to wait for Google’s regular search to pick you up.

   Comment by Rich Brooks — September 15, 2005 @ 5:52 pm

   
   

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