CategoryRSS

Last week’s poll asked – ‘Do You Run RSS Ads in any of Your Blog’s Feeds?’ The results: * Yes: 17% (43) * No: 75% (190) * I don’t have a Blog: 8% (19) Total Votes : 252 Comment on the poll were at this post. PS: there is no ...more

This week’s poll of the week asks: ‘Do You Run RSS Ads in any of Your Blog’s Feeds?’ Feel free to discuss your answers here. Particularly you might like to discuss the follow up questions of ‘Are they Worth their While for you?‘ I ask this because while I see ...more

Rachel just pinged me on IM to let me know of post she’s just writtten which I really wish she’d written a year ago. It’s about a WP Plugin called WordPress FeedBurner Plugin which makes your Feedburner RSS feed (if you have one) the one that is autodiscovered by feedreaders ...more

Jeremy just forwarded me this article on Clickz that shows ads in RSS that are an entry by themselves (ie the ad itself is a stand alone post) perform nine times better than RSS ads attached to other posts. They can generate CTR up to 7% (much better than any ...more

Subscribers to my RSS feed will notice (hopefully) a few changes to how it looks today as I’m testing FeedBurner’s latest offering – a system called FeedFlare (press release) which gives publishers a few new interactive tools to show feed readers. FeedFlare gives publishers the opportunity to activate any or ...more

You can now add a Add to Google button to your blog that will promote your RSS feed to readers to help them add your feed to their Google homepage and/or Google Reader. found via Steve

Peter has been digging around the Feedster Top 500 list (a list of ‘top blogs’ that was going to be updated monthly but hasn’t changed since August) again and has an interesting statistic – 12.2% Of the List have RSS Advertising in their feeds. This is in contrast to the ...more

Looks like Yahoo’s Publisher Network is widening their beta test to RSS ads if the RSS feed of our friend Jen is any indication. Still patiently waiting for them to widen their test to non US testers…. Is anyone out there actually earning anything significant from RSS advertising? I have ...more

Jen has spotted what we’ve all been expecting to see – Yahoo Publisher Network RSS ads. She writes: ‘The ads are delivered as images and seem to have an autogenerated script of some sort as it contains start and end tags in the RSS code.’ She has screen caps of ...more