Written on January 15th, 2009 at 07:01 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense for Feeds Ads Showing in Feedburner Email Updates
Today I was chatting with someone that subscribes to ProBlogger via email through the Feedburner RSS to Email service that we offer readers and they mentioned in passing that they see the AdSense ads in the emails that they receive.
At first I was a little taken aback by this. AdSense don’t allow their ads to [...]
Written on December 5th, 2008 at 03:12 am by Darren Rowse
You’re Losing Subscribers, Here’s How to Get them Back
Today Glen Allsopp a Personal Development blogger at PluginID shares a great technique for capturing lost subscribers to your blog. You can subscribe to his blog here.
A few months ago, I was messing around in feedburner and noticed something pretty drastic, I was rapidly losing subscribers on a regular basis. I bet that you [...]
Written on November 14th, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse
Are RSS Subscribers Worthwhile if they Don’t Visit Your Blog?
“Why do bloggers put so much focus upon growing RSS subscriber numbers to their blog if most of them only ever read your content in Feed Readers and don’t visit your blog?”
This question (or variations of it) hit my inbox 3 times in 24 hours from different people so I thought I’d tackle it as [...]
Written on November 2nd, 2008 at 09:11 pm by Darren Rowse
3 Alternatives to Promoting Your Blogs Homepage That Convert First Time Readers to Loyal Ones
When you have an opportunity to promote your blog what part of your blog do you promote?
In 99% of the promotion that I see bloggers doing they promote their blog’s homepage URL. This is a reasonably good way to go - but perhaps there are a few other ways to approach promoting you blog that [...]
Written on October 20th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense for RSS Feeds - How Contextual Are the Ads?
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 October 17th, 2008 at 05:10 am by Darren Rowse
How to Increase Subscribers and Reader Engagement
Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search.
I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list - but it struck me as I [...]
Written on September 13th, 2008 at 06:09 am by Darren Rowse
Where to Position Ads in Your RSS Feed
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]
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
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 [...]
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