CategoryRSS

Yahoo! have just released a helpful Publisher’s Guide to RSS which has comprehensive sections on Submitting RSS Feeds, promoting RSS feeds, Tracking Success and Monetizing RSS Feeds. On the money side of things the page is just a place holder/teaser of what is to come. They write: ‘Yahoo! plans to ...more

It seems that Google is Opening Up its Beta of AdSense for RSS Feeds for everyone to participate in: ‘After testing AdSense contextual ad distribution in a handful of RSS feeds over the past few weeks, Google is opening up the beta program to all of its publisher partners. The ...more

Jason writes that they have been accepted into the testing program of Google Adsense ads in RSS feeds. Lucky things! I’m not bitter though after my own rejection – sniff sniff. Well not too bitter. thanks to Mike for the tip Update: in spotting some of their ads in their ...more

I thought I’d try my luck and drop the team at Google’s Adsense an email to ‘offer my services’ as a tester for their RSS ad program. Of course I wasn’t expecting an affirmative response but thought I’d test my birthday luck. The response was to be expected: Hello Darren, ...more

The Blogging community is buzzing with the news yesterday of Google Adsense Ads in RSS feeds. There are a few relevant updates surfacing to this story: Robert from Longhorn Blogs (the blog that the first Adsense Ads were spotted in the RSS feed of) answers a few questions on their ...more

It looks like Adbrite (an ad network) and Feedster (an RSS Search Engine) have decided to team up to provide ads to bloggers. They’ll be offering three options for running ads on your blog: Ads directly on your blog Ads in your RSS Feed Podcast Advertising (not available yet). It ...more

Dave Morgan over at Clickz has a great piece on RSS Advertising which he says is Coming Fast. He cites the experience of one of the testers (A VC) of the Overture experiment at Feedburner of contextual ads in RSS feeds which is quite positive for those of you wondering ...more

T.L. Pakii has a great piece on How To Get Blog RSS Subscribers which is useful for anyone wanting to expand their RSS readership (an ever increasingly important way of finding readers for many bloggers). One of his main points is that you should work on Educating your Demographic which ...more

Steve Rubel has a great post asking why Google is Syndication Shy – something I’ve often wondered. In comparison to Yahoo! and MSN they seem somewhat behind the eight-ball. Steve writes: ‘Google views syndication drastically differently than its competitors. On the Web Google is all about driving people away from ...more