RSS Feed on an Adsense Site

Some concerns

[bluegum]

I'm considering adding an RSS "What's New" feed to a site running Adsense, but I just wanted to get some opinions on a couple of points. I'm just starting to explore the somewhat confusing world of RSS, so please bear with me..lol

If users add the feed to a browser-based reader like Firefox Live Bookmarks or Google Reader, they can just click and go directly to the article on my site, so no problems there.

However, if they used Thunderbird to read the feed, the article opens within the email client with Adsense ads stripped off. When they click on a feed item in other computer based readers like RSSReader and SharpReader the articles seem to open within the reader's own built-in browser and Adsense ads *do* appear. Is there anything in this behaviour that potentially violates the TOS? I see many sites that run Adsense and have RSS feeds, so I'd assume there is no TOS problems.

Any thoughts?

[celgins]

From your description, I don't see anything that violates Google Adsense TOS. The feed reader is simply providing a direct link to an article page and the content on that page.

If a user clicks an ad being fed to him/her through a news reader, it's just like clicking an ad within IE or Firefox. That ad will still be associated with the RSS linked page.

If you're really concerned about it, you may want to send Google a quick email and ask for more information.

[iwannano1]

Also don't show full RSS feed; otherwise many people will copy your feed to their site for MFA and other purposes

[bluegum]

OK that helps, thanks for your replies.

[Go60Guy]

Well, there are those who will tell you that running rss news feeds on a web page with Adsense. or any hint of ecommerce, violates copyright laws. Personally, I think that's hogwash, especially if you have other useful content on the page, which you should have anyway.

[bluegum]

Well I don't think copyright would be an issue here...I'm talking about making feeds of MY content, not that of somebody else..that is the feed is comprised of articles that are written by me and for which I hold the copyright.