Comments on: Full Posts vs. Partial Posts, on the Homepage

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:23:27 +0000

Thank you for the tips. I hope to improve the blog on my website from this information

By: Mitko

Mitko — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:05:18 +0000

How do you actually display the post partially? I am using Wordpress and I never managed to do that!

My other concern is that different categories display my articles differently than my front page!

If I set the default visible articles, it affect the whole site! 7 short posts will look not enough on the front page, and will be way overwhelming in my Articles section where everything is displayed Full Post!

By: driver16

driver16 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:27:08 +0000

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By: Loy21

Loy21 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:24:49 +0000

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By: Ziv

Ziv — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:02:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing,
My concerns are two –
1. duplicate content in the view of SE.
2. High load time for the homepage.

If you are having 300 posts and your homepage contains even partial posts, you generate about 30 unusefull pages that many of them are indexed by SE.
In the SE side, I guess that this may lower your site’s ranking.

By: Joshua Dorkin: TimeforBlogging

Joshua Dorkin: TimeforBlogging — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:08:43 +0000

I’ve been toying with the idea of going to partial posts on the front page of our blog for a while now . . . I think your article, along with a few others I’ve read (along with examining those sites that are successful) has me convinced to make the move.

Thanks!
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By: Jaspal Singh

Jaspal Singh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:31:39 +0000

I'm also looking to change my wordpress home page posts, so that only partial post is visible on home page instead of currently the full post. Jaspal Singh’s Latest Post: How my new personal blog got google page rank 0 to PR4 in just 28 days

By: Roy Nottage

Roy Nottage — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:23:31 +0000

See I’m in this dilemma now. I just can’t decide. I think it also depends on the blog layout. Mine currently is 2 side bars (1 either side) with the stream of content down the middle, where I feature full posts.

I think I will move over to partial posts as soon as I design ‘that amazing layout’ which is long overdue. My content also varies a bit, so it’d be better for people to see what else is there.

Thanks for posting!

By: Dave Webb

Dave Webb — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:20:30 +0000

I’ll always go for partial posts on my own site. I tend to ramble once I start going on about a topic and so a post that at first might only have been pretty short can end up being pages and pages long!

By: TestingMinded

TestingMinded — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:31:10 +0000

I love your list of advantages and disadvantages! Currently I’m showing full posts, but I’m thinking about switching to partial posts on the main page. I hope people will get past the homepage that way and they will be able to see the “related posts” etcetera.