RSS is an easy way for most bloggers to provide links and content from their site to feed readers and even other sites that want that content. But if you send your entire blog post to the RSS feed, you run the risk of being plagiarized by RSS scrapers who just want the content you write without doing any work themselves.

For this site, I do send all the content of the blog to an RSS feed. But my blog contents, while interesting (I hope) are not the whole story. In fact, most of my blog posts are short descriptions of articles and links to related articles on the same topic. But for other blogs I write I don't send the full post to the feed. My hope is that people will syndicate those snippets of content and then click through to read the full post.

Poll: Do you provide your full content to RSS feeds? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at 05:20:00.

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