Seasoned Marketer

Considering it’s been suggested that only 15 – 20% of the population actually knows what a feed is, I doubt few people know that you can make money from your feeds.

So first of all, when we are talking about feeds, we are usually talking about RSS feeds these days.  And all the blogs out there have the capacity for generate a ‘feed’.  A feed is a way to update any subscribers to your feed via the use of feed readers.

Let’s say you have a blog about Popular Musicians. And you post a new article about a band coming to your area.  What happens is that article updates your RSS feed and feed readers are often times setup to ‘check’ feeds every 15 minutes or so.  It’s kind of like email, except with blog content instead of  a personalized email.  And everyone who is subscribed to your feed will get that update via their feed reader.

There are 3 easy to use and popular feed readers out there.  Internet Explorer 8 has a built in feed reader, Firefox has a built in feed reader and I like feed demon – a free desktop feed reader.  You can easily to subscribe to a sites ‘feed’ if when you go to your favorite site and see that orange ‘feed’ icon. If you click on that, then you can subscribe to that feed.

Reading your feed is easy, for example, with IE 8, all you have to do is go to your “favorites’ and click on ‘feeds’ and you’ll see all the feeds you are subscribed to.

Now, if you have a blog of your own, or a site with an RSS feed, you can place Google Ads in your feed and you get paid anytime clicks on one of those ads.  Really, if you have a blog, it doesn’t make any sense not to use Google AdSense for feeds.  It’s a way to build passive income without much work on your part.

To learn more, login into your Google AdSense account and click on ‘Ad Setup’ and choose AdSense for feeds.  It’s actually pretty easy and straight forward to use.