Earn Income With Your RSS Feed Using Feedvertising
In part one of this series, Stay in Touch with your Readers by Using an RSS Feed I talked about how to use an RSS feed and how to create an RSS feed for your own blog using Feed Burner. In this article, I discuss a simple way to use your RSS feed to reach out to your subscribers with small, unobtrusive text ads.
These small text ads can be your own affilaite links, text links to other blog sites you own, friends blogs, charity blogs, etc. Or you can sell text spots in your RSS feed through Text Link Ads. Advertisers are able to select your specific RSS feed to reach readers in their targeted niche.
For example, I run a healthcare blog with an RSS feed. After signing up as a publisher for Text Link Ads, I made my RSS feed available for advertising. My first advertiser was for an electronic medical records software group. This is a great match…many of the readers of my health blog are nurses, physicians and administrators. But advertising in my RSS feed, the software company actually reaches the people who may be making buying decisions for electronic medical records.
When you use Text Link Ads for feedvertising, you have full control over the content of the ads. You can use all the spots for your own personal use. Your account gives you full control over the appearance of the ads you want to keep for personal use (for example, advertising your own product, your affiliate product, etc). You also have the opportunity to review potential advertisers so that you can ensure a good match with your readers.
In summary, you can make even more use of your RSS feed by including small text links at the end of each feed…personal links, affilaite links or even ads that someone else will pay you for!
Interested in signing up for Text Link Ads? Just use the button in the right sidebar. When I sort out how to how to prevent javascript from getting stripped from WordPress posts, I’ll just include the button right here.
So how are you using your RSS feed?
Popularity: 12% [?]
Thats always good but it sure takes a long time to get enough subscribers to feedvertise.
The funny thing is a lot of blogger will out and out refuse to touch their RSS feeds as far as advertisements go.
I’ve just registered with Text Link Ads through your website. Great thing about it is that even if your traffic is pretty small, you can get earnings by reffering the people. $25 bucks for each refferal!
Ryan: I think in general the more traffic you have, the more successful you’ll be with any type of advertising, but it’s probably more true with RSS.
Ognjen: Thanks a bunch! If you need any help getting the script in stalled, let me know. Yes, $25 for referrals that have the script installed for 7 days, plus of course, anything you earn selling text link ads on your site!