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Stephen Cronin wrote:
Maurice, an interesting idea. I hadn't thought of feed exchanges.
I'm planning to consider the "whole advertising in the feed" issue. Part of me thinks that text link ads in the feed is a good way to monetize further, but I'm holding off because I'm a little worried people will find this annoying. A feed exchange would be less annoying than other advertising, so maybe this is the way to go.
Actually I started thinking about advertising in feed when updating my DualFeeds plugin - it would be trivial to tack adds on the end of the full post feed and leave them off the summary feed. I may yet add this to DualFeeds. I know there are other WordPress plugins to allow this, but I find none of the cater to having BOTH a full text and a summary feed.
I'm planning to consider the "whole advertising in the feed" issue. Part of me thinks that text link ads in the feed is a good way to monetize further, but I'm holding off because I'm a little worried people will find this annoying. A feed exchange would be less annoying than other advertising, so maybe this is the way to go.
Actually I started thinking about advertising in feed when updating my DualFeeds plugin - it would be trivial to tack adds on the end of the full post feed and leave them off the summary feed. I may yet add this to DualFeeds. I know there are other WordPress plugins to allow this, but I find none of the cater to having BOTH a full text and a summary feed.
09/11 18:11:56
caymanhost wrote:
Hi Stephen
Good ideas. I neglected to mention that as an alternative to using TLA's feedvertising option, you could use the excellent Feed Footer plugin to achieve the same ends. I'm sure you're aware of that plugin as it was developed my a blogger who I know you read.
Adding the option to Dual Feeds would give it even nicer functionality. Food for thought, although as you say, some people will misuse it and run the risk of alienating subscribers. Bottom line is though, that advertising in feeds is here to stay, Google have recently enabled the inclusion of Adsense in Feedburner feeds (no great surprise there) and I think it's an inevitable development as more people switch to feedreaders.
Thanks for your comments.
Good ideas. I neglected to mention that as an alternative to using TLA's feedvertising option, you could use the excellent Feed Footer plugin to achieve the same ends. I'm sure you're aware of that plugin as it was developed my a blogger who I know you read.
Adding the option to Dual Feeds would give it even nicer functionality. Food for thought, although as you say, some people will misuse it and run the risk of alienating subscribers. Bottom line is though, that advertising in feeds is here to stay, Google have recently enabled the inclusion of Adsense in Feedburner feeds (no great surprise there) and I think it's an inevitable development as more people switch to feedreaders.
Thanks for your comments.
10/11 11:23:02
Stephen Cronin wrote:
Hi Maurice
Actually I didn't know about Feed Footer. Also, it's been a while since I've been to BlogClout - not sure why. I've been making the transition from reading through the BUMPzee feed to subscribing directly and there's quite a few sites I haven't got yet. Added them now. Thanks for reminding me.
I agree that advertising in feeds is here to stay. It makes sense, given that people don't visit sites as often. I'll have to add it to DualFeeds at some point then. If people use DualFeeds with a plugin like Feed Footer, the ads will be added to both the full text feed and the summary feed. Obviously, they don't want it on the summary feed.
Actually I didn't know about Feed Footer. Also, it's been a while since I've been to BlogClout - not sure why. I've been making the transition from reading through the BUMPzee feed to subscribing directly and there's quite a few sites I haven't got yet. Added them now. Thanks for reminding me.
I agree that advertising in feeds is here to stay. It makes sense, given that people don't visit sites as often. I'll have to add it to DualFeeds at some point then. If people use DualFeeds with a plugin like Feed Footer, the ads will be added to both the full text feed and the summary feed. Obviously, they don't want it on the summary feed.
11/11 04:23:41
caymanhost wrote:
Hi Stephen
As long as advertising in feeds is not too intrusive I don't have a problem with it. With more and more people using feed readers, it means less actual visits to blogs so monetizing feeds was a natural progression.
I think if you added it as an option on Dual Feeds, it would be a nice additional benefit for those who want it.
As long as advertising in feeds is not too intrusive I don't have a problem with it. With more and more people using feed readers, it means less actual visits to blogs so monetizing feeds was a natural progression.
I think if you added it as an option on Dual Feeds, it would be a nice additional benefit for those who want it.
11/11 10:24:21
09/11: Exchanging RSS Feeds To Inrease Subscriptions
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Here is a useful idea for bloggers wanting another method of increasing their RSS subscription numbers. That covers just about every blogger on the planet, but this tip won’t help all of them, so let’s set out the requirements before going any further.
1) You will need a Wordpress Blog
2) You will need a free publisher’s account at Text Link Ads
The reason for number 2 above is to give you access to their Feedvertiser technology. The reason for number 1 above is that Feedvertiser doesn’t yet work on any other platform. (Don’t worry if you’re uncomfortable about selling links on your blog, there is no requirement for you to do so in order to use Feedvertising). Here's how it works.....
Once you’ve satisfied the above requirements, you can start participating in this neat little idea to grow your subscriber base by exchanging feeds with other bloggers. Once you have set up Feedvertising on your blog (it’s quite simple to do, just follow the instructions in your TLA members area). you will be able to insert your own ads into your RSS feed - you could use affiliate programs or any other kind of ad, but here, we are looking at exchanging RSS feeds.
You find like minded feed owners, maybe bloggers you are already friends with or someone who has a blog on a similar subject. You place a link to that blogger’s feed at the end of each item in your own RSS feed. This helps people find other feeds they may be interested in and in return for promoting their feed, they recommend yours in the same way. Who you might choose to do this with is entirely up to you of course, but preferably an exchange with a complimentary site is the best way to go, and if you can find a blogger who fits the bill and has a similar number of subscribers, all the better. All you have to do then is place the ad in your feed, something like "JoeBloggs has a great feed about XYZ and you can subscribe to it here" (inserting the appropriate hyperlink to their feed).
Feedvertising allows you to rotate ads, so you have a reasonable amount of flexibility on the frequency that a given ad will appear which is helpful if the people partnering up have much higher/lower subscriber numbers than each other. So that’s it, get out there and start networking :-)
If you don’t blog on Wordpress, there may be alternatives for your blogging platform that will allow you to insert ads in your feeds. Sadly, Nucleus isn’t one of them so this blog cannot yet participate in feed exhanges with anyone. All I would add is this - don’t go mad with advertising in feeds, it really upsets some readers and they might unsubscribe if you bomb them with huge intrusive ads. A small and useful text link as we are suggesting here, shouldn’t upset anyone too much.
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