Monetizing Your RSS Feeds
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Many bloggers just allow their blog post summaries to be shown in their blog RSS feeds. Their reason? If they show the entire blog post in their RSS feeds, people won’t come over to their blogs. And they won’t see the ads on the blogs that help them earn extra money.
But - if you don’t show your entire blog posts in your RSS feeds, you will start losing subscribers. Many people will unsubscribe from your RSS feeds!A So what to do? Simple:
Monetize your RSS Feeds.
Show your entire blog posts in the RSS feeds.A But monetize your RSS feeds too.
Google Adsense and ads from most other ad-networks won’t work with RSS feeds because they use javascript to show the ads. And RSS feed readers don’t support javascript. So the only way to monetize your blogs is by showing HTML or text ads.
Step 1: If you use WordPress for blogging, download the Feed Footer plugin.
Step 2: Find an affiliate program that allows you to use your own text and images to promote. Two networks that you can surf to find products to promote:
Step 3: Create your short text or banner ad for the product you want to promote. And add it to the footer field of the plugin. With Feed Footer plugin, 10 different footers that promote your affiliate products can be rotated. Which means: you can promote 10 different affiliate products from the bottom of all your blog posts in the RSS feeds!
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Hi Ankesh
Another Good One.I will try that in near future.
Because I need more knowledge on RSS FEED.
Thank you for the Post.
Kind Regards
Manidip
Posted 10 Jul 2007 #
I don’t really see the point in advertising in RSS feeds. New visitors are more likely to click on an ad than a long-time reader. Most long-time readers will subscribe to your RSS feed, whereas a new visitor isn’t because a large portion of new visitors come from search engines and are looking for something specific.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 #
Good article, although I would have to agree with Jared. Only new users really click advertisements so monetizing a feed isn’t really worthwhile unless you have time.
Looking forward to reading more.
Posted 10 Jul 2007 #
Awesome! Information I can put to use!
Posted 10 Jul 2007 #
Thanks Jared and Leonid for talking about new visitors clicking on ads. My experience has been: with a few twists, you can make regular readers click on ads and buy too! May be I’ll make a new blog post about it though…
Posted 11 Jul 2007 #
Thanks for the heads up on this plugin. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Great site by the way… I just sub’d the RSS feed.
Posted 12 Jul 2007 #
“If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)”
What kind of crazy beer are you drinking? My favorites are all variants of Leffe (Brun, Blonde, Radieuse), and where I live they cost less than $1 a bottle in the supermarket.
And if it’s because you drink it in a pub, maybe you’d better stop. In addition to its being expensive, in my experience people who drink beer by the pitcher in pubs have no class. Stick with drinking by the bottle at home.
Good luck.
David.
Posted 16 Jul 2007 #
wow what a great plugin, i’ll use it
Posted 07 Aug 2007 #
I’m looking for a plug-in like this not for monetizing my blog, but for encouraging people to click through to comment, but cannot find the link language to use - anyone have any suggestions?
Posted 07 Aug 2007 #
Dawn: Thanks for asking. Here is an idea with a slight twist. Instead of asking people to comment, ask them to “Read what others think of this post.” When they click to read other people’s comments, they will be more prone to commenting themselves.
Posted 07 Aug 2007 #
Great Job! I installed the plugin, filled all 10 fields with text and HTML and tomorrow will test witj a new post.
I hope it will work well!
Thank you, Ankesh!
Posted 14 Jan 2008 #
qoute”But - if you dona_Tt show your entire blog posts in your RSS feeds, you will start losing subscribers. Many people will unsubscribe from your RSS feeds!”unquote
so what if people not subscribe to your RSS? i don’t think it is that important. People should visit the blog or website in the first place.
Posted 29 Jan 2008 #
FeedFooter is awesome. This is on my top list of must-have plugins for Wordpress. If you don’t use it, what are you waiting for? Monetize your feed and do some narrowcasting via RSS feeds. Thanks for the great plugin!
Posted 14 Apr 2008 #
FeedFooter is very good plugin for wordpressi??but i have some errorsi??
like i?s
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘feedfooter_concat_rss_ad’ was given in /home/chonghua/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 163
…
help mei??
Posted 15 Apr 2008 #
great information, thx for sharing.
Posted 29 May 2008 #
nice tips nut it depend on our site too, right to attract advertiser
Posted 09 Jul 2008 #