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Why you won't see a "more" link in my posts anymore

Little Cottonwood Canyon PicIn the past, I've put a brief teaser in my posts followed by a "more" link. I did this so that my main page (htttp://alt-j.com) wouldn't be a mile long and also so that the search engines wouldn't see a ton of duplicate content on my blog.

Now I say, "To heck with search engines." Here's why:

  • I'm lazy
  • My blog is for people, not search engines
  • It's more RSS friendly

I've been hooked on RSS feeds for a while now and recently switched to Google Reader from Thunderbird to check in on all my favorite blogs. As a result, I can easily read most of these feeds on my phone. I say most because some people do not publish their entire post in their RSS feed. As a result, I've started filtering out those that don't from my subscription list. I have one left that does (Guy Kawasaki), and I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep it in there.


To answer GrayWolf's question, Yes, I do subscribe to my own feed and feel that my blog is now easier to read because of it.

It looks like since October

It looks like since October 16th, Guy Kawasaki has been publishing full posts in his RSS feed. He must have sensed my frustration :-) I had been sitting on this post for a couple of months previous to actually posting it.

The next feed that is close

The next feed that is close to getting axed from my feed list for not publishing a full RSS feed is CPA Affiliates.

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