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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:01:51 +0000

[...] however my account’s migration has come now. This will also allow me to take the benefit of Google adsense for feeds product, although I don’t plan to use it over here at Blog Design [...]

By: mayank

mayank — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:19:10 +0000

@ Sumesh : I guess you are one of those who doesn’t mind reading the ads. Even I don’t have a problem with ads as I’m now ad blind. Although, I’m pretty much sure that many people won’t really love the idea of seeing the ads. As a publisher one would always want to get an opportunity to earn more. Although, I agree with you that ad-free web content will remain utopian

@ Craig : Thanks for subscribing to my blog. Well, it really depends on how you see things, lemme give you two examples –
1. You have already subscribed and took your time to visit my blog and then leave a comment on it. – This is true in your case. So, it’s good as it shows the community effect.

2. You may have subscribed the blog but don’t leave comments and read it through feed reader. Well, there are various other ways through which a person can leverage the subscribers, even though they just read the blog through feeds and how to do that will be my next blog post :) And I have to say that your blog looks pretty cute too.

@ Aravind : Well, as I mentioned in the reply to sumesh that I’m sure most of the publishers won’t mind it however, many readers may get irritated because of it. Well, the line “Get The Ad Free content delivered to you Free” doesn’t sound good as a publisher or writer. However, you show the ads in web pages anyway :)

By: Aravind

Aravind — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:14:34 +0000

Sumesh, you are not alone !!!

There seems nothing wrong in having ADs in the feeds.
I still have a very low number of subscribers, so I dont plan to insert ADs in my feed.

Now, ADs in feed, could possibly trigger one another type of subscribing promotion saying:
“”Get the AD Free content delivered to you FREE !! ”

How does that sound?

By: Craig Farrall

Craig Farrall — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:25:51 +0000

Nice post, and a great website you have here I must add, so keep up the good work.

I agree with what you are saying, the ad on feeds can be a good thing, but I also agree, that it is maybe stopping some people visiting your blog to see it, just reading your posts via feeds, which is definately not a good thing, I have yet to implement this, but I am unsure whether I actually want to or not.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:37:42 +0000

As a reader, I wouldn’t mind if the ads are at the end of the feed item, and is atleast somewhat relevant.

As a blogger, I find it insane that subscribers would expect an ad-free RSS feed. The concept of free AND ad-free web content will probably remain utopian. It just isn’t possible to sustain it.

For blogs monetized by AdSense and driven by search traffic, subscribers don’t really matter, and I have a feeling I am not alone ;)