Hypercrit » click-through http://www.hypercrit.net Michael Becker writes about journalism, new media and digital culture in general. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:18:33 +0000 en hourly 1 To excerpt or not to excerpt http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/10/31/to-excerpt-or-not-to-excerpt/ http://www.hypercrit.net/2008/10/31/to-excerpt-or-not-to-excerpt/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:02:44 +0000 Michael Becker http://www.hypercrit.net/?p=556
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    • ]]>     A thought occurs to me. Is it better to excerpt your blog posts on the home page, essentially giving the reader a little teaser that he then follows to the article’s page; or do we throw the entire text of the article onto the home page and be done with it?

    Maybe if I had advertisements on this site, I would care more about page visits, and therefore, I would have an incentive to get people to visit as many pages on this site as possible by showing the teasers on the home page. But I have no ads.

    So while I like the look of a page full of excerpts leading to the full articles — it looks so very newspapery, is it good blog practice to make a visitor click through?

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