FeedBurner has recently closed FAN, its advertising network. "No new applications for FAN publishers are being accepted and we expect the broad variety of options provided through AdSense (including the new AdSense for Feeds product, powered with FeedBurner feeds) will give publishers valuable new revenue-earning potential," says a FeedBurner/Google employee.
The new AdSense for Feeds option lets you create a new ad unit that has a format automatically selected from 468x60 and 300x250. "Generally, the 300x250 size will display when there's more content and when your feed is being viewed in a device with a larger display," explains Google. You can choose if you want image ads, the ad frequency, the position (top or bottom of the post), the colors and a channel that tracks the ad performance.
For the moment, there's no connection between your AdSense account and the FeedBurner account, so Google automatically adds the FeedBurner service to your AdSense account. Unfortunately, your feeds are still connected to the old FeedBurner account and you need to migrate them first. The migration process is manual: just send an email at adsense-support-aff@google.com and mention your FeedBurner username and the AdSense account email address.
From AdSense, you can easily burn a new feed by entering the address of your blog and selecting some tracking options. The feeds can be managed at the new FeedBurner site, but there's no visible change other than the integration with Google Accounts and the new URLs for feeds: http://feedproxy.google.com/NAME.
Here's an ad from a feed of a FeedBurner/Google employee:
I doubt that these ads are an effective way to monetize feeds, since people use feed readers to get timely updates from a lot of sites and spend less time for each item. Besides, feed readers are mostly used by tech-savvy readers that are less likely to click on ads.
At some point, I may experiment with some infrequent ads in Google Operating System's feed and I'll post my findings.
Resources:
AdSense for Feeds Help Center - you should read the tips
Migrating an existing FeedBurner account
The new FeedBurner homepage
seriously not new
ReplyDeleteThe service is now publicly available, it's no longer limited to a small number of hand-picked publishers.
ReplyDeleteI think that's so cool.
ReplyDeleteI'm having a problem when activate this.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason this won't be as effective as Google's traditionally placed Adsense ads is the way in which feeds are accessed.
ReplyDeleteNormally, when I'm browsing the web I'm looking for something. An answer, a product, a person. The (rare) times that I do click on Google's ads is when they're helping me find what I want.
This type of activity is typical online behaviour. I'm searching for something, and Google's ads sometimes help me find it. So far so good.
The problem is that this type of behaviour doesn't port over to a feed reader, and this is why it's not going to be a big win for Google.
Let me explain.
When I'm reading in my feed reader, I want to be entertained and I want to catch up with the people I follow. I don't have any burning questions and I'm not searching for anything in particular. So, I'm far less likely to click on an ad, particularly if it's stuck to the bottom of the feed.
My behaviour and my motivation are completely different.
Do you agree?
Not wanting to be totally negative, I'll suggest an alternative:
What might work is embedded links into the body of the posts content. Now that'd be a service worth using.
This is an old news, dude!
ReplyDelete@Mike:
ReplyDeleteDude, just because you could use it doesn't mean it was available for everyone. The news is that AdSense for Feeds is publicly available and all AdSense publishers can include ads in their FeedBurner feeds.
Good but nothing really new.
ReplyDeleteActually, it's very new ... at least new for 95% of the feedburner users out there who have been waiting patiently for it.
ReplyDeleteMy question is: will having adsense ads in my feed display ads when those evil spam blogs slurp up my feed and repost my entries? Because that would totally take the sting out!
ReplyDelete@Jemaleddin:
ReplyDeleteVery interesting point. The ads are actually some images included in your feed, so they'll be displayed in those spam blogs too.
I find it a good step forward, I just wait for the results.
ReplyDeletehttp://net-insider.blogspot.com/2008/08/monetize-your-feeds-adsense-has-made-it.html
Here's what I received from Google:
ReplyDeleteSuccess! As you requested, we have migrated your FeedBurner account to your requested Google account.
If you use MyBrand, FeedBurner.com's service for mapping your own custom domain to FeedBurner's feed server, it is very important you read the following instructions. Your MyBrand url (for example
feeds.joepublisher.com) will stay the same, however you will need to make modifications to DNS for traffic to smoothly transition to your migrated feed(s).
The following general topic from Google Apps for Administrators provides general instructions for changing CNAME entries with many popular domain hosts:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47283
You will want to map feeds.YOURDOMAIN.COM to ghs.google.com.
Effective immediately, you can access your feeds by signing into your Google Account when you visit http://feedburner.google.com. You will no longer be able to sign in to feedburner.com, but that's okay: from now on,
there is no reason to do so. Also, your old FeedBurner feeds, found at feeds.feedburner.com, will automatically redirect to their new addresses on the feedproxy.google.com domain. Just for completeness, you may still want to update any links or buttons on your website to use the new feedproxy.google.com address.
All of your feeds have been moved into this new account, and an initial batch of your most recent 30 days' traffic stats has been loaded up. (Your entire stats history, should it go beyond the last 30 days, will be added
at a future date. If you see "0" for the most recent full day, don't panic! It may take 24 hours for that day's full dose of stats to appear in your new account.)
Remember: visit http://feedburner.google.com from this point forward to view and manage your feeds. To set up AdSense for feeds, you now need to visit AdSense at http://www.google.com/adsense and choose the AdSense for Feeds option under Manage Ads > Get Ads. (Ads won't appear in your feed(s)
unless set up new ad units for them there.)
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
I thought I was crazy until I saw the other posts, yeah, its not that new
ReplyDeleteI would suggest holding off migrating your Feedburner accounts just yet. As noted in the support thread below, migrating has caused all my Feedburner feeds to go offline with 404 or 502 errors. I have been down for about 8 hours at this point.
ReplyDeletehttp://groups.google.com/group/feeds-and-syndication/browse_thread/thread/ea054dcc08cb1355/b3f915f53c0b592b#b3f915f53c0b592b
Douglas
Will the ads dispaled at email (when the subscriber opt to receive the feeds by email)
ReplyDeleteI HAVE A PROBLEM:
ReplyDeleteLast week (or less), I burned a bunch of feeds (like over 100) through the new Google F/B system that are just generic search phrases used to effectively resyndicate feed material already existing on the Google public news system. I did this using what amounts to the generic feed encoding string that creates, as well as duplicates, any assumed news content that you could imagine.
In other words, I'm not using an already-existing Blogger blog feed address or any other existing news feed source to create the feeds, but am just mirroring content already out there based on very general - and even random - search phrases that average users will input into a news' search engine (such as Google News or Yahoo News) on a daily basis, even thousands of times per day.
In using the encoding string, I could place "apples+oranges" at the end of the string, and there I will have automatically resyndicated every news item that would be out there on the Google News system dealing with "apples oranges." ALSO, it does not matter whether I use my uniquely-created F/B address for "apples oranges" or if I just type in "apples oranges" directly into the Google News search, because the content results that come up in my browser are ALWAYS identical in both cases.
Okay, so here's the problem:
I just barely created these feeds, and they are so new that the "bubble wrap" is still hanging off the edges. I have done nothing to effectively promote them other than to use the "Optimize" function in the F/B utility; and the only other thing I did was to use my Adsense account to SUPPOSEDLY insert ads into the feeds, which I know is not a "promotional" effort, per se.
The feeds are generating a considerably large amount of page views practically overnight - AND - people are actually subscribing to many of the feeds on a daily basis already (usually only about 1 actual subscriber to the feed for every 10 or 20 viewers thereabouts).
1) People are subscribing to my generally unique "feed address", albeit with 100% duplicated information, even though the information was already out there floating around on Google forever before I came along, which I can't quite figure out.
2) The main reason I can't quite figure any of it out is because I CAN'T FIND my personal feeds ANYWHERE no matter how I've tried.
3) Whether I click into the feed directly through my unique feed URL, or to just do the same general search phrase in Google News (i.e., "apples oranges"), I also NEVER see any Adsense ads anywhere.
4) Pulling up the feeds by either method also NEVER produces the unique "FEED TITLE" that I chose for the feeds; and I can never find anything (outside of my F/B account) to distinguish that my unique feeds even exist in the world.
5) When I went through the motions of implementing ads for the feeds through the "Adsense For Feeds" utility, everything appeared to work perfectly, including to see the default message showing that, to the effect, "Your ads may not appear for about 10 minutes." As well, my Adsense account shows that ads are "RUNNING" on all of the more than 100 feeds I created.
6) The mystery of it all wouldn't be so hard to take if I was actually making any money off the deal, but my Adsense balance is still at .24 cents, up from .22 cents where it was sitting for about the past 10 months. (Yes, it's true, I have earned about .02 cents a month with my Adsense account over the past year.)
But here's a really swell mystery: Apart from the reasonably large readership numbers showing up in my F/B stats, my "Page Views" stats through my Adsense account have SKYROCKETED to like over a "thousand" page views in 3 or 4 days (and most of that was actually BEFORE I added the last 50 of the more than 100 feeds I now have running, which I just completed day before yesterday). However, there is nobody clicking on any ads anywhere, because the last time I actually showed a "CLICK" in my Adsense account was more than 6 months ago. (And right now, these "Adsense For Feeds" ads are the only such ads I am presumed to be running.)
Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing right, wrong, or indifferently? Am I like in some sort of really far out nightmare that I can't seem to wake up from? Or is GOOGLE just making mush out of my brain?
If I could just find out how these people out there are finding my feeds - AND - if I could even find ONE LITTLE AD somewhere, then I wouldn't feel like I've gone brain dead.
I have been on the Internet for more than 15 years and have pretty well proven that there isn't anything I can't effectively research through any kind of search utility, but this one has me stumped. On the other hand, I am not nearly a "technical wizard" when it comes to any of these things.
Also, if you can tell me what I might be doing wrong that can turn this thing around into about 500 bucks a day in revenue, then that would truly make me feel wonderful.
By the way, good luck in the next upcoming Great Depression, which I predicted 16 years ago would happen in less than 20 years from that time. I believe the hammer is coming down.
Sounds like a good idea but do users really click on ads in the feeds. I have a doubt about that.
ReplyDeleteI also feel that very few pay attention to ads in the feeds. I do not know what is the success rate?
ReplyDeletei make 500$ per month do u belive? total
ReplyDeleteIt is good but i could not able unedrstand properly. . .
ReplyDeleteI tried some ads in my feed for a time, but there was really no benefit from it. I think it is not a good idea...
ReplyDeleteI also feel that very few pay attention to ads in the feeds. I do not know what is the success rate?
ReplyDeletewww.itmastermind.blogspot.com
Anyone tried it, what is the conversion rate?
ReplyDeleteCan some know its conversion rate??
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