Wednesday, August 20, 2008

How To Monetize Your RSS Feed

What is a RSS Feed?
In simple words, a RSS Feed is mainly a content delivery and syndication system that allows readers to have access to your content without visiting your website.There is an ever increasing amount of web surfers who prefers to favorite blogs via RSS Feed rather than visiting the blog. If you have a huge amount of Rss readers subscribed through your blog, unleashing the full potential of ads impression is affected because a portion of readers have connected your blog with their reader application and thus your optimized contextual ads are not fully monetized.Feed advertising allows you to integrate ads within your community of readers who frequently reads your post through their reader application. Here i have a collection of Feed advertising network that provides you with options to monetize your feed.

Feedvertising
Allows to run Broker Text Ads on your rss feed. Apart from the Feedvertising ads, you can also choose to run your own in-house ads or affiliate links. Feedvertising is currently on open for wordpress 2.0+ users and the service is free! Tubetorial actually made a short video clip explain step by step on how to use feedvertising on your Rss Feed.

FeedBurner Advertising Network

This network is upon invitation and even when you contact them, which i have spoke to one of their team editors, chances are you will be decline due to the size of your Rss Feed, i think they only accept blogs that have big Feed counts. Unless your blog is the meanest and baddest blog, chances are unlike you will be accepted. Type: Text ads, Banner Rates: CPM Payment:Unknown

RSS Interstitials that allows publishers to insert advertising into the links contained within their RSS feeds. When a user clicks a link from your RSS feed, they will are shown a short, fully branded, interstitial advertisement between the click of the link, and the final destination. They only accept US publishers for now.
Type: Full page interstitials Rates: CPM & CPC Payment:Check
Q-Ads is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. Q-Ads is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed. Using your keywords on post, you are fully in control of your ads.
Type: Text & Video ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check/Paypal
It allows you to monetize your Rss Feed through adverts are inserted every x articles where you control the value of x or by matching keywords to your article contents to target relevant advertising. The network provides adverts for a large range of channels but the system also works with most industry leading ad serving solutions allowing you to provide and control your own creative if you wish. They don't accept public application so you need to contact Ashley Harrison on email.
Type: Banner ads Rates: Unknown Payment:Unknown
Advertisements are served based on topics, not to keywords. Kanoodle shares 50% of the revenue generated from the advertisements with the publisher serving the ad. It takes about 15mins to complete your questionaire which is full of questions to apply and only when you are accepted then will they disclosure further information.
Type: Contextual ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check
Pheedo's advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Leverage your existing RSS assets to extend your brand, drive traffic, and acquire new feed subscribers.
Type: Text, Banner ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check
Google's AdSense for Feeds Beta offers contextually targeted advertisements, with a wide selection of advertisers. They do not want to disclose how much percentage of revenue you will earn so it is purely impossible to know how much you will be earning. You need to have at least 100 feed subscribers to apply for this beta feed ad service.The current Google AdSense system for feeds is tied to blogs and does not appear to be overly flexible.
Type: Contextual ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check
This services does not work for me since i don't stay in the US as participants of the program must have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax ID number, and web site content that is predominantly in English and targeted at a U.S. user base. Yahoo! will contact you about your eligibility to participate and about availability of the program. Talk about being friendly, If you want to know more of this beta service, loren baker of searchenginejournal have provided a post on how YPN can work for you.
Type: Text Link Ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check
FeedDirect will allow content owners to not only monetize their assets with content-targeted sponsored links via Kanoodle but also get maximum distribution through the moreover network.Using a Service called Brightads to generate revenue on your Rss Feed. It seems to me this is the only advertising feed network for adults.
Type: Text, pop under,banner ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check
Debates on whether you should use them
Web Surfers who subscribes to your Rss Feed basically do not want to have those pesky ads floating around your blog or site, that is why they choose to read it in a application that does not apply primary ads and images to show. By force inserting ads on your feed, you can lose a number of readers if you do not handle the situation properly. On the other hand, you can start to reduce the your ads that are cluttering on your blog and balance them on your Rss feed to encourage web surfers to read your blog daily instead of reading your updated post from their reader application.Are you ready to monetize your Rss Feed and make more money, here i have listed out 10 great feed advertising networks which i know, if you have another amazing network which you would like to share, drop me a comment or contact me and i will have it added in this extensive list.
Source: etienneteo.com