Thanks for you answers. Here goes my question:

No matter how hard I try or push it, there’s no way to move my feed readers from approx 200. They grew pretty fast (0-200 in 4 months) but since April they just seemed to stop. . I stick to my topic, I push it, write about it, ask reader after posts, I’ve explained what they are, how to use them, I give two ways of subscribing, but nothing seems to work… What’s going on? Do you have any possible explanation?

Cheers!

I hope this is the proper forum to ask a new question.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the various options for breaking up content. I’ve experimented over the years with full feeds vs. summary feeds, and using the “more” tag.

I ended up not liking sending summary feeds as it just came off to me at least as a bait and switch. Kind of a “I want to provide you good content, but only if you come to my site”. That being said, you usually want good site traffic, and if you send full feeds, then you have to try harder to get folks to click through to your site.

I’ve also used the “more” tag, being able to put it a little further down in posts than the summary usually breaks. I can also use “more” sometimes, but not always.

Where I’ve ended up is sending full posts through my feed, but using the “more” tag for long posts. This helps drive traffic to my site for higher value content posts (they are usually longer), but still send full feeds for everything else. It also helps a long post not eat up so much real estate on the front page of my blog.

Your comments would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.