Comments on: Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:29:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-877901 Lorelle VanFossen Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:17:48 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-877901 @<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-877851" rel="nofollow"> David W</a>: Depends. This is a problem with WordPress and other similar sites with content on various pageviews. You'll find some of these link to your categories and archives, too. Yes, excerpts help, but if the keywords are in the excerpts, it will still do the same thing. There is no easy solution to this. Make sure your help file is obvious and easy to use, and consider adding a landing page to help direct people to other resources if they land on multi-post pages. @ David W:

Depends. This is a problem with WordPress and other similar sites with content on various pageviews. You’ll find some of these link to your categories and archives, too. Yes, excerpts help, but if the keywords are in the excerpts, it will still do the same thing. There is no easy solution to this. Make sure your help file is obvious and easy to use, and consider adding a landing page to help direct people to other resources if they land on multi-post pages.

]]> By: David W http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-877851 David W Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:55:22 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-877851 I have some situations where we are getting traffic from some particular searches, however the page which is in the google results is the blog homepage, NOT the blog post itself. This is lame, because I've tracked some of these down to realize that the article may be long-gone from viewing on the blog homepage.... searcher finds a result they like... click to our blog homepage... post buried in archives. Question: do you think it will help solve this to use Excerpt instead of full post display ? I have some situations where we are getting traffic from some particular searches, however the page which is in the google results is the blog homepage, NOT the blog post itself. This is lame, because I’ve tracked some of these down to realize that the article may be long-gone from viewing on the blog homepage…. searcher finds a result they like… click to our blog homepage… post buried in archives.

Question: do you think it will help solve this to use Excerpt instead of full post display ?

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-446981 Lorelle VanFossen Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:16:59 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-446981 You use the ones that serve you the best. I use both, depending upon the importance of the content of the specific post and its length. I really prefer that aggregators ONLY feature titles and excerpts, leaving personal feed readers to be customized to allow titles, excerpts, or full posts depending upon the user's preferences. But feed scraping should be limited to only titles and excerpts at most. Honestly, as much as there are hard core folks who claim one or the other as the ONLY way, there is no ONLY. There is what works for you and your blog. Try them both for a while or mix things up and see how it works for your readers. You use the ones that serve you the best. I use both, depending upon the importance of the content of the specific post and its length.

I really prefer that aggregators ONLY feature titles and excerpts, leaving personal feed readers to be customized to allow titles, excerpts, or full posts depending upon the user’s preferences. But feed scraping should be limited to only titles and excerpts at most.

Honestly, as much as there are hard core folks who claim one or the other as the ONLY way, there is no ONLY. There is what works for you and your blog. Try them both for a while or mix things up and see how it works for your readers.

]]> By: AuthorMomWithDogs http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-446899 AuthorMomWithDogs Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:07:41 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-446899 Lorelle, what are your thoughts on using excerpts vs. full posts in feeds? Lorelle, what are your thoughts on using excerpts vs. full posts in feeds?

]]> By: Post excerpts | kzkw.net http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-432078 Post excerpts | kzkw.net Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:05:35 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-432078 [...] Lorelle on WordPress: Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...] [...] Lorelle on WordPress: Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...]

]]> By:   Things you should know when using post excerpt — BlogoSquare http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-362919   Things you should know when using post excerpt — BlogoSquare Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:55:40 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-362919 [...] Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...] [...] Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...]

]]> By: The Important Of Writing Excerpts For Your Posts http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-291718 The Important Of Writing Excerpts For Your Posts Mon, 21 May 2007 18:54:28 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-291718 [...] Excerpts can have a huge impact on driving traffic.  When comparing pages in which I had written the excerpt vs pages where I let it default I found that I got over 50% more search engine traffic when I wrote the excerpt.  This tells you that searchers tend to go for hand written summaries rather than machine generated ones. Lorelle has also written about how and why you should write post excerpts.  [...] [...] Excerpts can have a huge impact on driving traffic.  When comparing pages in which I had written the excerpt vs pages where I let it default I found that I got over 50% more search engine traffic when I wrote the excerpt.  This tells you that searchers tend to go for hand written summaries rather than machine generated ones. Lorelle has also written about how and why you should write post excerpts.  [...]

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]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-182154 Lorelle VanFossen Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:21:22 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-182154 See <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/wordpress-plugins-for-images-photographs-and-graphics/" title="WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics" rel="nofollow">WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics</a>. See WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics.

]]> By: Lucy Komisar http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-182133 Lucy Komisar Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:22:56 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-182133 How do I put a thumbnail photo in the excerpt box so that it shows on the home page? How do I put a thumbnail photo in the excerpt box so that it shows on the home page?

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