Ads in RSS

I know Google doesn't yet offer us the ability to put Adsense into RSS (or if they do, they aren't letting me know about it anyway) but I assume that because YPN does, they soon will.

I'm soliciting opinions about this. I do produce a RSS feed now, but I don't put the page content into it - just the small amount of text that I also put into the Description header metatag. My feeling is that the whole point (originally, anyway) of RSS was to notify of new content, not to actually provide it.

But that idea seems to have gone away, and it seems most folks include the full post. OK, I could do that, but sheesh: these stupid RSS readers pay no attention to update frequency and keep checking for changes constantly - often every fifteen minutes. So adding content is going to push my bandwidth way up - I get something around 50,000 rss requests a week which right now are under 10k each, but if I had the content in there would be a heck of a lot bigger.. and would almost certainly drive me over the "free" bandwidth included in my hosting plan.

Of course if adding content with ads improved my overall income enough to pay for the overage, I wouldn't care..

I realize this is all hypothetical now, but would like to hear opinions.

 

You can put adsense into RSS and it can pay quite well.

 

I don't see that as an option.. ?

 

u need to apply for it. your site and traffic must be good in order to get approval.

 

You can use feedburner.

 

Apply where? I see nothing in Adsense that mentions this. Yet.. I do see RSS feeds with embedded Google ads, so it must be a secret beta program?

How "good"? I do about $1,000 monthly - is that too little?

 

No, I'm not asking how to insert the code into my RSS.

I'm asking how you get signed up with Google. From what I can see, it's a semi-secret beta program: there are people doing it, and I can even find links that supposedly let you apply, but the links are broken and I can't find any mention of this within Adsense.

 

Another thing about RSS ads:

Some RSS readers ignore them, and fetch the original html, but leave out Javascript. Thunderbird's reader does that, for example.

YPN RSS ads are pointless in such a reader and I would expect Google's would be also..

 

Bloglines shows javascript ads.

You can apply for the adsense for feeds here - http:// services.google.com/ads_inquiry/aff

(there is a space after the // because i dont have enough posts to show a link)

 

Thanks for the link. I seem to have a couple thousand "subscribers" (or at least several thousand unique ip's doing GETS of the feed) so I hope I'd qualify.

I realize Bloglines (and some others) do display the ads, but my point was that other RSS readers do not - and that since people have choices, I would think that many would opt for readers like Thunderbird that go fetch the original source and ignore Javascript.

I'm just wondering if this detracts from the potential for this type of ad in RSS feeds. Oh well, worth a try I guess.

 

Very quick reply from Google: