Earn Money from your RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds is a new area which many bloggers are using to monetize their sites/blogs. But knowing which ad networks you have as an option will help you better in selecting the right ad network to monetize your feed.

So let’s explore the various ways in which you can go in for monetizing your RSS feeds:

• Feedburner Advertising – Feedburner allows you to have text, text ad with logo and banner ads in your feeds. Recently they started allowing you to have Adsense ads associated with your feeds. They pay on CPM basis. For getting into this network, you need to have a strong and regular reader base on basis of which they will themself invite you in the network.
• Google Adsense for Feeds – Currently this program is in beta. Pays on CPC basis. It shows contextual text links and banner ads. Requirement is that your feed should have more than 100 regular feed subscribers.
• Pheedo – It pays on CPC basis. It shows text, logo and banner ads. It also offers to host your feeds on their servers as well as on your own servers or even use feedburner. It provides codes which you can add to feed files directly so feedburner should never pose any problem.
• Bidvertiser – It pays on CPC basis. It shows banner ads. Like pheedo it offers to host feeds on their servers or use your own feeds. It offers plugins for various platforms like wordpress unlike pheedo which wants you to edit core wordpress files to add ads to your feeds.
• Yahoo! Publisher Network – This program like Google ads for feeds is in beta too. It shows text links as ads. It pays on CPC basis. Ads will be contextual in nature.
• TextLinkAds Feedvertising – It shows text link ads. It pays on flat rate basis. It works only on Wordpress 2.0+ software. You can even include your own footer links or affiliate links using their wordpress plugin provided for this purpose.
• Kanoodle BrightAds RSS – It pays on CPC basis. It shows contextual text link ads.
• MediaFed – It shows banner ads. You can select keywords on which your ads should be based.
• FeedShow – FeedShow is basically a RSS reader. This rss reader allows you to share revenue via Google Adsense. You get 50% of the revenue. Problem is that ad is shown only in FeedShow RSS Reader so don’t expect much revenue and you will have to promote this particular RSS reader aggressively to increase your income.
• Q-Ads for Feeds – You can insert ads using this network by using Qumana Blog Editor only. It shows text and video ads. It pays on CPC basis.
• ThankYouPages – It pays on CPM as well as CPC basis. It shows full page interstitial ads. It inserts links into your feeds and when people click those links, they are taken to a full page ad. This functionality is not available to all ThankYouPages Publishers.

There are several other ways in which you can monetize your RSS feeds like sell links in your feeds, sell 250×250 ad spaces in your rss feeds, even sell banners below each posts in feeds or include affiliate links in your feeds.

If you know of any ad network for RSS Feeds which I have not covered, inform me via comments.