Why it’s better to show only a summary of the article on the front page
Blogs are everywhere so you must seen blogs who shows full posts on the blog front-page, and others who shows only a summary of the post and a link saying “Read more” or “Read the rest of this entry”.
There is a lot of debate on this subject, but the type of display depends of the type of your blog, the type of your visitors. For example, if all your blog posts are related one to each other, or if you are post them as a series, as capitols of a book there is no reason to show only summaries on the front page. Your readers will read all of them anyway so why to get them to do another click ?
If you post about a subject, but the article are not like a story and the are not related, and you also publish long posts it is a pain for visitors to show them the full post. [Read the rest of this entry...]
