Comments on: RSS Ads – Poll

By: Mary C.

Mary C. — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:54:54 +0000

Don’t know how to use it. How can I use RSS feeds to improve my traffic? I went to different forums and posted the same question to see if someone could help me. No luck.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:48:26 +0000

RSS ads are the most useless and inefficient idea ever. Anyone able to prove me wrong ?

By: 75% of ProBlogger Readers Don’t run Ads in RSS: ProBlogger Blog Tips

75% of ProBlogger Readers Don’t run Ads in RSS: ProBlogger Blog Tips — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:20:01 +0000

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By: Digger

Digger — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:35:57 +0000

Tried it with YPN a few months ago. The ads were irrelevant and didn’t fit the content. They made no income. They annoyed me. I lost a few rss subscribers soon after I added them.

That is all.

By: miscblogger

miscblogger — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:29:52 +0000

Darren, there are some of us who would like to use RSS Feed ads. Since i am primarily depending on Adsense i want to use their RSS feed ads. but it seems that their beta is closed. i suggest that you ad another option on the poll for those who want to use adsense rss but cannot. just a suggestion…

By: LaughingMachine

LaughingMachine — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:47:06 +0000

Google Reject Those Who Is Below 500 readers Hopes Google Adsense For Feeds Will Out Of Beta Soon .Right Now I Have Only 34 Readers Hopes To Get 500 When Ad Feeds Out Of Beta

By: Random Webmaster

Random Webmaster — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:17:31 +0000

If we are talking about third party ads like YPN / Google ads then No I have no ads in my RSS feeds.

I agree with JBagley with the comment “do you want more hits to your site, or a couple more cents from ads”. I want my users to interact with the site, rather than just read. If my site was just a blog focusing on text content, then maybe. The blog side of the site is just there to get the users, not as the sole purpose.

I also have a personal hate thing going on with ads in RSS feeds. I use a custom PHP script that I am perfecting to strip ads out. If it can be called an ad, I will most likely remove it before I see it.

It is a bit of a balance between “more hits to your site” / “more revenue” / “Annoying the user with ads”

By: Britt Malka

Britt Malka — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:24:47 +0000

Hi again

M Freitas: FeedBurner is absolutely brilliant, but you still have to apply to a Google AdSense for Feeds account (http://services.google.com/ads_inquiry/aff).

Jon and Leon: How strange that Google rejected your requests :-( I wonder what criterias they use, because they only write “more than 100 active subscribers”.

By: M Freitas

M Freitas — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:20:24 +0000

I run ads on RSS feeds, and I am happy with the results. Tried Google AdSense for Feeds, but if you have more than 500 readers then I certaily recommend Feedburner and their new services…

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:18:50 +0000

I just requested for feed ads right before I read this post and I’m rejected as well. Probably Google rejected those who entered 100-499 in the request form.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:17:12 +0000

Interesting read. But how do you apply for google rss ads? And how about an example? Third besides google are there any more ad companies?

By: Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:15:29 +0000

Duh?
BANDWIDTH, BANDWIDTH, BANDWIDTH

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:07:04 +0000

I tend to think that people who read blogs through RSS readers are a little more savvy and are likely just to ignore the ads totally.

By: jon

jon — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:05:33 +0000

Britt…don’t feel bad…I’ve got 200 and Google still said no :(

By: Veridicus

Veridicus — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:02:31 +0000

When I’m reading someone else’s feeds I HATE to see ads. I usually stop reading RSS feeds when they include ads. Most feeds only contain excerpts of full articles, so if I’m interested I’ll go to the site to read the whole article. There I’ll see ads.

By: Britt Malka

Britt Malka — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:59:00 +0000

I would like to try rss ads, but Google wants at least 100 readers of the feed, and I’ve only about … 21 at the most :-(

Everybody else visites the blog, so perhaps that isn’t so bad after all.

By: pcunix

pcunix — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:29:28 +0000

I recently added YPN ads to my RSS feed.

Zero income, but they aren’t very good ads.

Google is still in beta on RSS and didn’t offer to let me join the beta.

To answer the “How does one run ads in their RSS feeds” question: YPN provides the code to add in to your feed. They actually provide code to stick into templates for popular blogging formats, but if you do your own RSS generation as I do, it’s not hard to figure out what you need to do: basically it’s just assigning a unique id to each post.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:54:52 +0000

Oops – tried to include [em] tags and it mangled the previous post. here’s the full content:

We run an ad-free full content RSS feed. I believe that full-content makes it more enjoyable for regular readers, who may only come to the site very infrequently, but that’s ok.

Our daily visitor count is about 10x our feed count, and about equal to our search-referrals. Maybe that’s because we’re so new (

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:52:10 +0000

We run an ad-free full content RSS feed. I believe that full-content makes it more enjoyable for regular readers, who may only come to the site very infrequently, but that’s ok.

Our daily visitor count is about 10x our feed count, and about equal to our search-referrals. Maybe that’s because we’re so new (accidental tourists that click on ads anyway, not the regular readers. We hope that our subscribers are a source of viral marketing, and don’t rely on them for ads.

I’m really curious what other people’s strategies are about this.

Thanks Darren for a good poll and a great site!

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:52:09 +0000

I have wanted to in the past, but its not worth the trouble for me at this point. I just don’t have enough readers to warrant that.