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 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Basic Structure of a Blog Post | Learning from Lorelle http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-965136 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:34:23 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-965136 [...] Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...]

]]> By: Blog Struggles: Why Should Your Blog Have a Focus « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-937850 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:34:21 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-937850 [...] Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-930802 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:40:15 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-930802 The article has nothing to do with “writing” except that if you are going to use excerpts, you better understand the importance of what you are writing that will end up in the excerpt. If it doesn’t compel people to click through to read the rest, you’re missing out and losing traffic big time.

]]> By: Jaime http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-930783 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:23:51 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-930783 How does this all relate to writing? It’s so very technical.

]]> By: What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-922977 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:32:29 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-922977 [...] Writing With Post Excerpts and Feed Excerpts in Mind [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-877901 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 @ 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 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 ?

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-446981 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.

]]> By: AuthorMomWithDogs http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-446899 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?

]]> By: Post excerpts | kzkw.net http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/writing-with-post-excerpts-and-feed-excerpts-in-mind/#comment-432078 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 [...]

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