Making extra money by adding a footer to your RSS Feed
Most blogger don’t take advantage of this extra real estate that you already own, including myself. If your goal is to monetize your blog, this is one practice that you SHOULD use on all your blogs.
Why is this important? Like most bloggers I read through 10–20 blogs on a daily basis, but I don’t visit every site to read them, a quick scan through all the RSS pulled in on my iGoogle (about 5 via email) allows me to decide which new post deserves my attention first!
By reading just the RSS feed, I just avoid all the advertisements on these blogs. Out of the 20 or so RSS feeds that I subscribe to, I’ve only seen 1 feed that actually monetize the real estate space on their RSS footer, and that’s John Chow.
What can you do with your RSS footer?
- Copyright information
- Sponsor ads
- FeedBurner users (now that they’ve been acquired by Google, you can add your AdSense ad in the footer area)
- Showcase other blogs that you have
- Contest information
- Pre-sale of anything that you might be working on
How do you add a footer to your RSS feed? After a few searches I’ve found 3 WordPress Plugins through (Daily Blog Tip) I was only able to RSS Signature to work properly, but the other 2 plugins seems to offer a little bit more functionality, so I would give them all a try and use the one that suites your needs.
Let me know how these plugins work out for you!
