Is Someone Using Your Feeds?

With a few plugins available bloggers (or sploggers) are able to use your feeds on their blogs as their own content. A simple solution is to monetize your feeds. Your ads will show on their blogs giving you more links back and a possible new source of traffic/revenue.

I found a great wordpress plugin that does just that. The Feed-footer-plugin from Blogclout allows you to add footers to all your RSS feeds.

To make this work you will need go to your admin panel options/reading and checkmark the full text in the Syndication section then save options.

I know some of you are saying “I don’t want full text in my RSS, because no one will come to my blog”. Well, if you don’t have full text in your RSS many won’t come to your blog anyway, because they are just using feed readers and seldom visit the actual blogs anyway. With this plugin you can monetize those feeds and you are advertising to them right in their reader!

DO NOT go overboard with your advertising or you will lose readers fast! If you want to use a banner put it on the first feed only then use text ads under the other 9. You can have 10 different ads - one for each feed or copy paste to make all 10 of them the same.

This feed works on displaying your ads right in FeedBurner as well.

You can look at my feed for an example to see what I did.

Note: Old posts aren’t effected so you will need to make 10 new posts before you see all 10 ads. This is my first post after installing the plugin so you will only see one footer ad.