Feedvertising From TLA
Posted on September 29, 2006 by Tom Simpson
Last week, Text Link Ads announced that they would be offering Feedvertising, which has been in a limited beta for a while. Anybody that is using WordPress 2.0 can download a plugin from the TLA site, add a bit of code to their pages, and deliver ads, at the end of each post in their RSS feed.
Feedvertising gives you the ability to sell ad space, define your own message, or both. Quite a few high profile blogs, such as TechCrunch and ProBlogger have been using the service during the beta period, with pretty good results.
With Text Link Ads, advertisers pay a flat amount per month, so there is no cost-per-click or variable CMP rates. You’ll know exactly how much money you’ll be making and how much potential there is.
If you’d like a closer look at how to add this to your blog, take a look at the Flash video tutorial.
If you’re not signed up at Text Link Ads, there is an approval proccess to go through. All you have to do is create a publisher account to start the approval proccess.
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Shanti Braford
- 1st Oct, 06 06:10pm
Hey Tom – great post!
Have you tried out Feedvertising yet?
We’re going to experiment with it on a few of the Niner Niner blogs.
Tom Simpson (author comment)
- 1st Oct, 06 07:10pm
I signed up, but haven’t tried it, myself. Mainly because I’m using the PHP code for TLA in my template, and haven’t had time to switch over to the plugin (or decided if I want to).
I used to use Feedster in my RSS feed, but they required that you use “their” special feed to do that. They also injected images, rather than text only.
Feedvertising doesn’t make you change your feed location, and because the ads are “text only”, they’re a lot less obtrusive.