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European Lee · 12-19-2004, 05:36 PM

What is the 'ideal' amount of articles to place in an XML file?

Obviously i dont want to have a file with a couple of hundred articles in it but, at the same time, i dont want to have a couple of hundred single article RSS files.

Is there a 'standard' article count that is commonly accepted as 'just enough'?

Regards,

Lee

azguy · 12-19-2004, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by European Lee
What is the 'ideal' amount of articles to place in an XML file?

Obviously i dont want to have a file with a couple of hundred articles in it but, at the same time, i dont want to have a couple of hundred single article RSS files.

Is there a 'standard' article count that is commonly accepted as 'just enough'?

Regards,

Lee

15?

Intrigue · 12-19-2004, 05:55 PM

don't put the whole article in there, just the headlines, and frankly, i'd put all of the headlines in, how much is a few hundred lines of text, a couple k? (if that)

European Lee · 12-19-2004, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by Intrigue
don't put the whole article in there, just the headlines, and frankly, i'd put all of the headlines in, how much is a few hundred lines of text, a couple k? (if that)

Oh i know not to put the whole article in... only snippets.

I was more concerned as to whether or not any of the RSS search aggregates will frown upon having 200+ articles contained in one feed.

I know content is good when it comes to RSS but where does to much content become overkill?

Regards,

Lee

Intrigue · 12-19-2004, 06:05 PM

If the articles are in a database, use mod_rewrite to group it by date then or something, perhaps make it so you have rss/12-15-04.rss have all in it from that date until now. or just archive them...

Pornwolf · 12-19-2004, 06:06 PM

7

I really dunno but 7 sounds like a good number.

BlueDesignStudios · 12-19-2004, 06:24 PM

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dudus · 12-19-2004, 06:49 PM

I've done quite a bit of mainstream RSS work and it looks like 10 - 30 is the accepted norm - much more and users get pissed that other feeds are drowned out, less and you lose prominance.

European Lee · 12-19-2004, 08:06 PM

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Originally posted by dudus
I've done quite a bit of mainstream RSS work and it looks like 10 - 30 is the accepted norm - much more and users get pissed that other feeds are drowned out, less and you lose prominance.

Thanks thats the sort of feedback i was looking for and along the lines of what i was thinking the appropriate figure would be too

Regards,

Lee

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12-19-2004, 06:05 PM	#5
Intrigue Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ohio, US Posts: 662	If the articles are in a database, use mod_rewrite to group it by date then or something, perhaps make it so you have rss/12-15-04.rss have all in it from that date until now. or just archive them...

12-19-2004, 06:49 PM	#8
dudus Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UK Posts: 175	I've done quite a bit of mainstream RSS work and it looks like 10 - 30 is the accepted norm - much more and users get pissed that other feeds are drowned out, less and you lose prominance.