Blog Front Page: Full posts or Teasers?

[netentre]

Yea, thanks Viking...

I personally prefer full RSS. It gives the subscribers what they are after: reading content from different sources in one convenient reader.

And, I think the traffic loss due to that is negligible. Let's say you've got 100 subscribers who don't visit your site because they read everything in the reader. But, for each subscriber you'd probably have 20 visitors, or even more.. so, I'd rather keep those subscribers by giving them what they want and loose those 100 hits which account for a small percent of the total visitors..

[sukosaki]

I go with full article on the front. I feel that if the reader wants to read more, they'll jam through the categories or search, but if they have to click to read more of the one post they came to read, they are long gone.

[heylove]

I prefer the whole entry as opposed to teasers

[Yimto]

Hmm looking more and more unanimous. Full posts on the front page was the general vibe I was getting from the little information I did find. Maybe teasers should only be used if you are posting multiple times a day, or have content warnings like Ferox?

Does anyone know if there is any sort of SEO or duplicate content penalties with full posts though. For example, if you post full posts, the same content will be on your main page, article page, category pages, and even archive pages...

By the way, I totally agree with full feed in RSS. Two separate issues though in my opinion.

[Eva White]

I prefer full post to teasers. If you have full post, the reader reads the whole things. But if you have a teaser which is not too catchy then the reader might not click and go to the page where the whole post is put up. So according to me it is always better to have full post. Even if you have catchy pictures on the first page with the entire post, it is more likely that readers would get attracted to read further.

[Ferox]

If you're confident in your writing style, then you'd be fairly confident that anyone who was actually reading that post would want to continue reading it, wouldn't you? So you have nothing to lose by using teasers.

[arnold]

I have tried both ways and without a doubt the amount of time people spend on my site is higher with the full posts. The 'more' button also causes your articles in the feed to be cut off and many folks do not appreciate this.

[QponCutie]

Hmmm...this is interesting. I've been using the "more" tag on my longer blog posts, I thought the concise look would be more appealing to visitors. Maybe I will have to rethink that!

[EverythingEverywhere]

The more I have to click, the greater the odds I wont bother clicking.

Make life easy for your readers. Put everything up front.

I know with WordPress for me, if you go to a category page or a search results page, you only get a article stub on those pages. You don't get a duplicate. The full article only appears on the front page and the actual article page.

[TheDripp]

I am a full frontal kind of guy