Why? Mainly because inserting ads generally requires you to publish “full post”. I prefer that my feeds are excerpted so that interested readers come to my blogs for the full piece. (As for bandwidth, ad content doesn’t steal throughput from your server.)

These are the materials that accompanied our telephone seminar, The Ins and Outs of Blogs and Blogging, held November 10, 2005. An Audio CD is available. The faculty member for this course was Jeff Faria, of Jeff Faria Communications, Hoboken,…

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In case any of you are wondering, haiku aren’t money makers. Beer sites are prohibited by Google and Yahoo TOS. Whether monetized or not, it is annoying to find my posts and feeds all over the internet without proper attribution.

I like J.Wynia’s idea of using adding cross promotion and licensing info directly into the feed. It is probably something I should have done earlier, but I started doing this just for fun. I will continue to experiment with ways to monetize it, but that is not the main point.

I haven’t yet put ads in my feed as the circulation for each one is only a few hundred and it hardly seems worth it. But once they pass the 1k sunscriber mark, I plan to monetize them some way.

The idea of using a feed to direct traffic to OTHER sites in your “network”, though, is a good one.

Darren selbst ist nicht von RSS-Werbung überzeugt, da diese eine noch geringere Conversion Rate hätten als On Site Anzeigen.

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The last line is randomized from a list of links to my other blogs. Because subscribers are more likely to become loyal readers, my pitch to them is different. Darren, you’ve talked about how some traffic is more valuable than others and this fits in. Most subscribers and regular viewers just don’t click nearly as much as first time readers and Google traffic does (at least in my experience). BUT (big but), they are far more likely to write up their own post linking in, to subscribe to another of my sites, to tell their friends, etc. In other words, I don’t try to get my regular readers to click on ads. I try to get them to read more of my stuff.

For that goal, something like what I’m doing on my feeds makes more sense.

And, for the record, I run full feeds for the same reason and like my little blurbs in there on that account as well. Lots of folks don’t want to run full feeds because they don’t want their content dumped onto spammy blogs outright. However, if you’ve got a blurb about reuse (mine is wide open, but it could easily be an indication that licensing is required and licensed users get a feed without the blurb, hence if you’re seeing it on a site, it isn’t licensed), they’re likely to just move on because they’d have to set up a special rule to filter out your footer.