{"id":3327,"date":"2005-05-17T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T02:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/17\/adsense-for-feeds\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:56:18","slug":"adsense-for-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/17\/adsense-for-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"AdSense for Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like the inevitable intrusion of advertising into RSS feeds just gained a major player, as Google<\/a>‘s Adsense for Feeds<\/a> program has just been announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, I can kind of see where quite a few people might be happy about this. As more and more people read their news through RSS feeds, fewer people are as likely to visit a website and see their ads, and revenue drops.<\/p>\n

At the same time — hey, that’s one of the things I like<\/em> about RSS feeds. While I’ve not yet unsubscribed from a feed because it started carrying advertising, it is a little bit annoying. Not very, at this stage, as so far all the ads are at the tail end of each post and can easily be ignored, but I’d still be happier without ads.<\/p>\n

So, while I do use Google’s AdSense<\/a> program on my site (as unobtrusively as possible while still allowing for the occasional check to hit my mailbox), I’ll not be dropping ads into any of my RSS feeds<\/a>. The way I figure it, the miniscule amount of extra revenue it might generate isn’t at all offset by the annoyance it could cause my readers (and since the ads annoy me, I’ll work on the assumption that they probably annoy others, too).<\/p>\n

\"iTunes\"<\/a>\"\" “Lords of the Rhymes (Kool-Aid Brothers)<\/a>” by Lords of the Rhymes<\/a> (2003, 5:03).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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