pageoneresults - 8:16 pm on Feb 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

And out of those 95% to 98% of the time I never visit the site again since I get all the information I want from the rss feed.

That concerns me! They must be giving away "too much" information in the feed, yes?

The ones I tend to actually visit the websites are the feeds that tell me they have release a new update to software/service I use or only provide a small teaser text which gets my attention.

That would be similar to the approach in this instance.

We utilize a very strict approach to CMS and have an area that is defined as the IPW paragraph. That is the first one or two lines from the content that is of the most importance. That is all we plan on including in the <description> of the feed along with the <title>. I can't see giving away too much more information. I'm already losing someone to a Feed, I don't want to lose the potential click through and revenue that may be generated.

And depending on the content of your feed you may lose a great deal of visits to your pages, or it may just provide a additional way for your subscribers to get there information.

Ya, that's a concern too and one that I am mulling over right now. We definitely need to make sure the feeds are designed to generate click throughs to the site. Without those, we lose the potential of upselling.

There's a bit to consider in all of this.

Did you know that RDF was or is the proposed replacement and/or next step in metadata? I could never fully grasp the RDF specification until recently and it all clicked. I'll be damned! Here I am chasing metadata and I could be chasing RSS/RDF too. Woohoo!

Can I promote other people's feeds? I mean, is it okay to provide RSS links to their feeds if I feel they are of value to the audience? What is best practice in this area?