Monetize your RSS feed with Bidvertiser
January 4th, 2008 | by Brook Durant |
A few minutes ago when I logged into my Bidvertiser and was surprised to see that they are now offering the option to include ads in your RSS feeds. Great idea I thought and quickly signed up. After all more income sources is more income sources, right? Here’s what I figured out so far.
- A little hokey, maybe…
- You can’t embed the ads into an existing feed publisher such as Feed Burner. By no means am I an expert but that seems like being able to do that would be a given. Especially considering that Bidvertiser doesn’t use content relational advertising.
- But all is not lost
- The setup took me all of two minutes. In the end I only need to copy and paste a few lines to move my RSS feeds from Feed Burner to Bidvertiser. I’ve not made the change yet, but I’ll give it a try tomorrow. It doesn’t look like I’ll lose anything by moving the feed. Besides I’m not actually moving the feed, more like forwarding it through the Bidvertiser system but it still seems to originate on the blog, move through Feed Burner and then get handed off to Bidvertiser.
- Getting started
- If you don’t have a Bidvertiser account already signup for one here. Once that’s done log into your publisher account and look for the link that says Public Beta - BidVertiser ads for your RSS/ATOM feeds. Click here to start!. Click the link and go! If you already have an account skip the signup (obviously) and get to work!
Has anyone else tried this out? Any feedback? I’m going to give it a chance since Feed Burner can’t seem to get their act together and monetize their feeds. At least not so it works right.
I’d like to remind everyone to please sign up for my email rss feed. Once I reach 500 subscriptions I will randomly choose a member of the 500 signups and send that person $50.00! Tell your friends, tell your family, tell everyone about their chance to win $50.00! Hell, you don’t even need to link back to an article, or write an article. Just need to be one of the 500 subscribers. Contest will run until there is a winner. So tell everyone because until we reach 500 subscribers no one has any chance to get that $50.00!
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Tags: Blogging, make money online, marketing, rss
By sHy GuYz on Jan 4, 2008
Hm.. I’ve using bidvertiser in my blog but it can’t get much more..
Maybe using Feed Burner it will increase my earning..
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By A Blog about Nothing on Jan 4, 2008
shy - Feed Burner is used to propagate your RSS feed more easily. It’s not a monetization method.
By Malignition.com – The Don’ts of How To Make Money on Jan 9, 2008
I heard about this from John Chow. I might try this one day, but to be honest, I’m a little weary about forwarding my feed though Bidvertiser’s system. I’m also a bit skeptical about how well it will pay.
By A Blog about Nothing on Jan 11, 2008
Malignition - Ditto. I’m wary as well. I haven’t yet started using it. Probably next week, but we’ll see.
By The Monetizer on Jan 21, 2008
I found the setup very confusing and I’m usually halfway decent with HTML/code implementation. Looks like they just now have allowed for the Feedburner integration to be done so you don’t lose current subscribers.
I was a bit confused if you can have a blog running Adsense and then use Bidvertiser ads in that blog’s feeds? Anyone seen an answer on this?
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By A Blog about Nothing on Jan 21, 2008
Monetizer - Ultimately I decided not to do this. No need for the ads.