Written on October 20th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense for RSS Feeds - How Contextual Are the Ads?

Adsense, RSS 37 comments

Over the last few weeks we’ve (b5media) been experimenting with AdSense for RSS on our blogs (including ProBlogger). I’d previously had them on my photography blog but not here on ProBlogger.

Since activating them I’ve had around 1 email a day from readers telling me that they are seeing ’strange’ ads. The feedback is that some […]

Written on September 13th, 2008 at 06:09 am by Darren Rowse

Where to Position Ads in Your RSS Feed

RSS 34 comments

Over the past month since AdSense have released AdSense for Feeds to the wider publishing community I’ve noticed a lot more of the bloggers that I’m tracking each day are including ads in their RSS feed.
When they first started appearing I noticed most bloggers had the ads positioned at the bottom of their blog posts […]

Written on September 1st, 2008 at 06:09 am by Darren Rowse

66% of Bloggers Don’t Run RSS Ads On Their Blog [POLL RESULTS]

Reader Questions 36 comments

In our last ProBlogger Poll I asked readers whether they run RSS ads on their main blog. The results are in - 66% of you don’t run RSS ads on your blog.

What I find interesting is that 18 months ago I ran this same poll. The results were that 75% of readers didn’t run RSS […]

Written on August 19th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense for Feeds Goes Live

Adsense, RSS 27 comments

Over the last week or two some Feedburner Ad Network publishers have been transitioned over to the new AdSense Feed Advertising system and over the weekend AdSense for Feeds has gone live for everyone. You should now see them in your AdSense setup tab.
AdSense for feeds is similar to most AdSense ads in that the […]

Written on August 7th, 2008 at 06:08 am by Darren Rowse

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

Reader Questions 46 comments

It’s time for a new poll here on Problogger - this time the question is:

Do you Run RSS Ads on Your Main Blog?

RSS advertising has been around for a couple of years now and I see quite a few RSS ads appearing in my own RSS reading - but I’d be interested to know just […]