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Google Ads for RSS Feeds Goes Beta

Posted by Zonk on from the my-suggestion-for-next-feature-root-beer-floats dept.

flood6 writes "Google has launched their service to offer contextual ads via their AdSense program through RSS feeds. The program is currently in Beta but will allow webmasters who offer RSS feeds of their content to include ads in the feeds (which often appear on other websites or through aggregators); someone clicks on the ad, the owner of the feed makes a little scratch."

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  1. Worthless writeup by grazzy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Googles has released their adsense-program for RSS-feeds, its available to users with more than 100 subscribers.

    More info straight from google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/feed-me.htm l

    Apply form: http://services.google.com/ads_inquiry/aff

  2. Re:Dont know but... by hkmwbz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Google recommends placing the ads at the very bottom, below the actual content. This might not be such a bad thing after all.

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  3. just don't subscribe to it by namekuseijin · · Score: 2, Informative

    how are they supposed to throw ads down my throat if i don't subscribe to the damn feed?

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  4. Google was relatively ad-free by alexhmit01 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Random point, but Google was founded as a technology company, built to design and license their technology to companies like Yahoo. Google.com WAS simply a proof of concept site, but as it grew as a destination and they changed their business model to be an ad channel.

    But originally, they were a technology company selling their tech/search results to media companies that would include the advertisements. Much like a studio that puts shows out in syndication... the local stations sell the ads, NOT the studio.

    Not that it matters much, but Google's primary objective WAS to have the best search results so the media companies would license it, now it is to use the search results to accumulate visitors to sell ads to.

    Alex