Comments on: Do you Run RSS Ads on Your Main Blog? [POLL]

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:57:09 +0000

Sorry if I voted twice – I clicked vote and the page simply reappeared without update. Does that plugin require cookies or something stupid like that?

I don’t run ads in my RSS feed because it appears on other sites (with my blessing) that don’t allow ads in the articles. I do have ads on my site.

By: StartBreakingFree.com

StartBreakingFree.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:33:44 +0000

I would like to, but I have not figured out how yet!

This would make a great post.

I do have some text affiliate links in there now, but they are doing very poorly.

By: JohnCow

JohnCow — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:24:00 +0000

I have not tried monetizing my rss feed and i am not sure i want to. This is one topic however that I really am not clear cut on but there is something about it I do not like but I can not even say for certain what it is without sounding like a hypocrite.

I guess i feel that you need to not overwhelm your readers with “buy now” in every aspect… I think you should use the rss feed to get the readers and then make the post (like you did here) call for them to get involved and be part of the community and have the marketing messages here.

Curious as to your thoughts Darren.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:11:28 +0000

Heck, the only reason I don’t put RSS ad is because I am trying to build traffic first.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:20:20 +0000

the poll is run by a wordpress plugin called democracy

By: Team Nirvana

Team Nirvana — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:14:26 +0000

I would like to give it a try if I once come to know what it means in the true sense. Darren, please enlighten us on this.

I would be waiting for this.

By: Elliot Wilson

Elliot Wilson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:51 +0000

“What are you using to embed polls (such as this one) in the RSS feed itself?” – Jeffry Pilcher

I would also like to know the answer to this question…

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:23:40 +0000

I tried once with Bidveriser for feeds but did not get any clicks over a week and stopped it! However, I am convinced that feed footer can be used for affiliate banners etc rather than ads.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:01 +0000

Not so far. I’ve debated it, but I’d probably be thinking about something customized if I went that route.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:18:00 +0000

My blog is pretty new so I don’t have any advertising right now but I am looking into monitizing it near the end of the year. What are the pros and cons of RSS ads and how do they compare to AdSense?

By: Zath

Zath — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:36:18 +0000

I’ve said I would offer RSS footer advertising on my advertising page, but it would have to be Textual now as I’m really not convinced anything other than a “Brought to you by..” message would have any real CTR given my blog is about tech and gaming.

I also use BlogBurst and like some of the linkbacks I get back from that system as I tend to use my RSS footer to publicise pages on Zath or other sites that I’m involved with – that’s probably worth more to me than any image ads would be.

By: No Debt Plan

No Debt Plan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:23:15 +0000

I don’t primarily because I’ve heard they convert very poorly and become more of a nuisance to readers.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:13:01 +0000

No, But I am VERY interested in putting datafeeds on my sites. Any help in this area would be appreciated.

By: Pangeran

Pangeran — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:07:53 +0000

No, I don’t.
Not yet.

By: Alexander Langer

Alexander Langer — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:05:49 +0000

It's not my ultimate goal to make money with my personal blog at any cost. I myself have subscribed to about 200 feeds and it's already hard and time consuming enough to decide what to read and what not to read. If someone would make my decision process even harder by putting ads into his feed, thereby adding visual clutter, I'd strongly consider to cancel the subscription as my time is precious.

By: Archit

Archit — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:35:42 +0000

Nopes.

I don’t have that many subscribers yet.

By: ramiro marques

ramiro marques — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:20:40 +0000

No, I dont.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:49:39 +0000

I answered “Yes” but I don’t think I’m doing what you’re expecting.

I sell “post footer” sponsorships for $XX a pop. These aren’t graphical at all – entirely text. It’s a max of about 250 characters, including a link or two. They’re clearly marked as “Post supported by” and are in italic. They work well and are popular, since they get to all of my subscribers rather than just the Web hits.

I agree with others above that graphical ads perform extremely poorly in the main (I was getting 0.0025% CTR from FeedBurner’s ads some months – on tens of thousands of impressions!! – no that’s not too many zeroes by accident!) but the “post supported by” concept makes me good money and the sponsors get visitors. Textual ads nearly always trump graphical.

By: j. noronha

j. noronha — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:26:45 +0000

Yes, but I have nearly 1000 subscribers only, so it does not make a big difference on income.

By: Ms. Missive

Ms. Missive — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:57:48 +0000

Unless you’re a “big wig” like ProBlogger, then I say don’t bother. They’re gaudy and irritating.

It’s one thing to have ads directly on a site, but it’s another to have them “invade” your RSS reader….