I just found out today that my feed was only giving my RSS subscribers the first 250 words of my posts! I'm so sorry I didn't realize it was doing that!
To those of you who have been putting up with that THANK YOU!
To those of you who unsubscribed as a result, I beg your forgiveness!
The good news it that it's all fixed! As is my RSS link in the right column. If my Feedblitz is not giving you the whole post, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix that too!
Now for the THANK YOU!!!
I can't thank my new friend Mark W. Shead of www.productivity501.com enough for being my Blogging Angel!! Not only did he let me know about this problem, he was a HUGE help in fixing it!!
I posted about my rebranding project last week. Mark helped me get my website URL changed to www.NeatAndSimple.com without a single broken link or glitch. HE IS MY HERO! What I thought would take months to accomplish, he helped me get done this weekend!
I have to give a shout out to my awesome webhost as well. They have 24-hour live service - and over the phone they went in and made the changes Mark recommended to my .htaccess file and voila! It was all done. I now have a permanent 301 redirect in place! My links all work no matter what you type as the domain name, and my Google rank is intact.
Mark even took the time to explain and document the excruciatingly complicated procedure for changing my blog URL to blog.neatandsimple.com without breaking any links! It's going to take a few days to make it happen, but I owe him big time.
Not only is he an amazing writer and productivity expert, he is a web guru with a Service Heart as Gretchen Rubin describes it.
Check out some of these Awesome Posts by Mark W. Shead at www.productivity501.com
- Cost vs. Benefit Revisited (Are Hybrids really better for the environment?
- Focus for Results
He interviewed 30 Experts...including me...and wrote these amazing posts!
- What is the single biggest way people waste time without even realizing it?
- What change has made the most difference in making you effective in life?
- If someone were to read just one post from your site, which would you recommend the read and why?
Check out his contest to! You could win a free iPOD!
Oh my...I thought that was deliberate (some other blogs do it, presumably because on ad-supported blogs, the RSS subscribers don't see the ads). Had I not thought it was intentional, I would have said something ages ago!
So, I suppose those of us who have been "putting up with it" owe you an apology, for not speaking up about it!
Posted by: Bob | July 03, 2007 at 11:22 PM
You don't have to apologize! I find it annoying too when people don't give their whole post in the Feedblitz.
When people give the whole post, I visit the site more often because after reading the whole post I know if I have a comment to share or not! I don't have time to click through to every post just to find out that I don't really have anything to add.
Thanks for letting me know you cared! And that you stuck with it anyway! :)
Posted by: Ariane Benefit | July 04, 2007 at 11:02 AM
I went so far as to make a folder in my google reader called extended viewing. I hardly ever check that folder.
Marcia http://organisingtips.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-week-ariane-changed-her-blog-set.html
spoke about you changing your feed.
I just started my blog this past week. I such a newbie to hosting a blog that I'm not sure how to even get the feed. BUT I know that when I do I want it to be a FULL feed that is sent to google reader..LOL
Posted by: Robyn | July 14, 2007 at 01:24 AM
Robyn, Welcome to the world of blogging! I agree, I prefer having full feeds too! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment!
Posted by: Ariane Benefit | July 14, 2007 at 05:39 PM
Great blog with such helpful links. I got stuck on your site for quite some time...thanks for sharing:-)
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