“Click here to Read the rest of this entry” ???

Submitted by Vincent Sparreboom on December 4, 2007 - 5:36am in
Design

Hi Guys,

I’m curious. Now a days you see more and more blogs changing there blogposts to “Click here to Read the rest of this entry” posts.

I’m also thinking of doing this, mainly for my ads.

I was wondering if you have any experience with this. Did you or did you decide not to do this and why?

I hope to hear from you.

Cheers

Vincent

Many choices

Submitted by Markus Merz on December 4, 2007 - 11:58am.

There are a couple of places on your blog where this can take place:

Homepage
Archive pages
Category lists
Tag search result lists
Search result lists
Original RSS feed(s)
Secondary RSS feeds
???

Performancing.com i.e. offers full feeds but in the article and you have the additional possibility of a 'break' divider to only show excerpts on your blog.

In general I would recommend to have excerpts in all lists to avoid duplicate content.

Speaking about different types of excerpts:

Original excerpt
Plug-In generated excerpts
External excerpts (i.e. via extra FeedBurner feed)
Bookmark excerpt (i.e. via del.icio.us RSS feed)

Many choices...

I want to change all of them

Submitted by Vincent Sparreboom on December 4, 2007 - 9:56pm.

I just checked the blog that I'm thinking of changing. It seems that all of my pages are showing full posts and I want to change all of them. I do want to keep my full feed.

Do you have any experience with changing this on your blog and was it useful?

Follow-Up

Submitted by Markus Merz on December 6, 2007 - 1:45pm.

My last comment was eaten by Akismet so I took the chance to write a follow-up:

Boring Article About Excerpts (Blog Design Basics)

In general excerpts are a great way to condense content to give readers a faster way of scanning your article lists. More...

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