RSS feeds in Adsense

do they work

[peewhy]

Does anyone have experience and or success with RSS feeds i conjunction with adsense?

[kokaroach]

Hi Peewhy,

I'm not 100% sure what your asking - whether you're talking about Google's Adsense for RSS program, where you have ads in the actual RSS feeds you publish, or if you're talking about placing Adsense on pages where much of the content is pulled in from feeds.

I'll do my best to answer both.

Adsense in your RSS feeds - I know a few prominent bloggers and they say ads are simply not converting to clicks in their RSS feeds. Not even enough to be worth the effort. One even said that out of approc. 10,000 ad impressions he had 3 clicks for a grand total of .33c

As for displaying ads on pages made up largely of content pulled from RSS feeds, a lot of the scraper sites do this and it seems to be working to generate revenue for them.

I share much the same opinion as a lot of the other members of this forum though. I believe the main reason people click on ads on those types of pages is that the ads are the most attractive content on the page. LOL

In my opinion, and from extensive testing, I find that using content that I've personally written, or had written for me along with a few relevant RSS headlines in the lower right side column to supplement my content works best.

Although lately I've been using a php rotation script to pull in titles to other articles on my site and my pageviews and Adsense page CTR have increased slightly as a result. The idea is to funnel traffic around within your site or network of sites so there are less exit points - unless it's through a monetized link ;-)

K

[peewhy]

Thanks for the ggod response Kokaroach.

I'ce recently purchased a content rich site with RSS facilities and wondered whether it would be cost and time effective to maintain.

[badtigger]

I dont know about RSS feeds and adsense. The TOS that Google has laid out seem kind of grey as to the publisher's responsibilities, and there is a lot of FUD all over the Net about it.

That being said, we ultimately have no control whatsoever over how our feeds get syndicated(scraped?)

For eg., if you do a Google search for "rails yanime rssfwd", you will see a service which allows the re-packaging of your feed, so that people can get it in plain text in their email inbox.

What I see they have done with my feed is strip out everything else, except the plain text. I have a feed which is burned by Feedburner, and all of their content has been stripped out of my feed.

So, if I were to have had Google adsense ads in their, they would have been stripped out. I think that the feed-reading public might be too resistant to seeing ads in their feeds just yet, but who knows...

I wonder why Google didnt bother creating their own feed burning service, or, just doing what feedgator did, and aquire something like Bradbury's Feed Demon?

[chikung]

If this is regarding the feed, sitemap.xml...I must say I found it pretty tricky. Its because I could not connect to web server and run python file which will generate sitemap.xml for me.