{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6664,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260309014042\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 07:42:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:56:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 23:48:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:40:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 08:28:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 11:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 11:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8252,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/support\\\/adsense\\\/bin\\\/answer.py?answer=20012&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110525174038\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/support\\\/adsense\\\/bin\\\/answer.py?answer=20012&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/support.google.com\\\/adsense\\\/answer\\\/20012&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:41:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:41:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8253,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/googleblog.blogspot.com\\\/2005\\\/05\\\/feed-me.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8254,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/adsense&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Looks like the inevitable intrusion of advertising into RSS feeds just gained a major player, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/adsense\/bin\/answer.py?answer=20012\" title=\"Google AdSense Support: What is AdSense for feeds?\">Adsense for Feeds<\/a> program has <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/feed-me.html\" title=\"Google Blog: Feed Me\">just been announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>At the same time &#8212; hey, that&#8217;s one of the things I <em>like<\/em> about RSS feeds. While I&#8217;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&#8217;d still be happier without ads.<\/p>\n<p>So, while I do use Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\" title=\"Google AdSense\">AdSense<\/a> program on my site (as unobtrusively as possible while still allowing for the occasional check to hit my mailbox), I&#8217;ll not be dropping ads into any of <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/feeds.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Syndication Feeds\">my RSS feeds<\/a>. The way I figure it, the miniscule amount of extra revenue it might generate isn&#8217;t at all offset by the annoyance it could cause my readers (and since the ads annoy me, I&#8217;ll work on the assumption that they probably annoy others, too).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Lords of the Rhymes (Kool-Aid Brothers)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Lords of the Rhymes (Kool-Aid Brothers)' on the iTMS\">Lords of the Rhymes (Kool-Aid Brothers)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLords of the Rhymes%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Lords of the Rhymes on the iTMS\">Lords of the Rhymes<\/a> (2003, 5:03).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the inevitable intrusion of advertising into RSS feeds just gained a major player, as Google&#8217;s Adsense for Feeds program has just been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[39,599],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-links","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}