Monetize your RSS feed with Bidvertiser
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!
