Adsense (Feedburner) - Your Missing Out on High Paying Clicks.

[yukon]

I have a few old blogspot blogs that are about 5 years old. This one blogspot I stopped adding content (about 1,000 pages) about 1-1/2 years ago.

I was cleaning up some old folders on my desktop & found a few Halloween related content that I never did post on my old site, I got busy with other projects, etc...

So, last night I posted a single blog post, didn't think much of it at the time, just figured I might as well upload the content.

I just now checked my Adsense account & noticed my earnings had shot up pretty good (actually damn good )!

What I found was Adsense clicks on that specific Feedburner/Adsense feed with very high payouts.

Looks like I need to update the old sites content a bit more.

[Related Forum Thread]

[Muhammad Mustafa]

Old developed sites carry authority on eyes of the big G, so, never stop updating them, they are your Golden Eggs man

[paulgl]

No doubt about the fact that google loves their little
baby blogger. They also like freshness. It's good
that not too many people know this.

Create an authoritative blogspot, and it can rock.

Paul

[yukon]

The thing is, this blogger site has always been very consistent with Adsense earnings over the years.

It's my Feedburner/Adsense Feed that has skyrocketed today.

That blogger site has around 700+ active optins for the Feedburner email.

I can't check my Feedburner stats yet, looks like the update is lagging behind Adsense. Adsense Admin shows I'm up almost 75% above average earnings per day for this one site.

What's crazy is, that site gets consistent new email optins without ever updating the content, at least 50% of the traffic is niche forum traffic.

I guess it paid off having a hobby that I found a way to monetize with Adsense, it doesn't get any closer to auto-pilot after creating so many hand built pages a few years back.

I'm posting more content tonight, see If I can milk the Feed a little more.

[Amy marketing]

Originally Posted by paulgl

No doubt about the fact that google loves their little
baby blogger. They also like freshness. It's good
that not too many people know this.

Create an authoritative blogspot, and it can rock.

Paul

You got it .smart answer.

[yukon]

No joke, this blogspot just now set a new record for most $$ earned on any of my sites (ever) in a single day!

Lol, tomorrow they'll probably screw me on earnings.

[BXPS]

Yup old sites place authority keep them updated

[rinor81]

Way to go Yukon!

Just think of it as wine....gets warmer and better over the years and costs much more...I guess in the online world, old can be good...

Good Luck man...

[yukon]

Thanks guys,

Last night that old sites Feedburner feed set an all time high $$ earnings per day, for a single site that I own.

Today set another new $$ high (higher than last night) already at 12:30PM EST!

It's the exact same thing going on today, my old sites Feedburner/Adsense is killing it BIG time.

I went & checked the Feedburner Feed on Google Reader last night & most of those Ads were from "ITT Tech" (most not all). I'm not sure If I'm seeing the same Ads on Feedburner as everyone else (I doubt I am)? The average $$ per Feedburner/Adsense click is getting me around $7-8 per click.

This has got me freaked out (lol) because I've had this feed setup for a few years & it's never converted like this.

The actual Adsense clicks on the Feed Ads is about normal, no click bombing or anything like that. It's just high paying clicks per Adsense Ads.

I figured since last night set a new record high they would screw me today with some crazy low numbers, but damn it boy that Feedburner is earning it's keep today!

I did end up posting another new blogger blog post late last night, looks like I'll get back to posting a single new blog post on that old blog each day for a while, milk it, milk it, milk it... Lol!

That site also picked up another 11 new Feedburner subscribers since last night. I'm thinking one of the old subscribers must have posted a link someplace on the net, because that's also a high number for about a 12 hour span, I'll have to check for any new backlinks later on.

[yukon]

This is the 3rd day in a row that my old Adsense/Feedburner is setting new record high earnings!

Guys, I'm not kidding you should look into growing an Adsense/Feedburner email list.

I subscribe to my own Adsense/Feedburner list for monitoring.

You want to know what's inside my Adsense emails?

1) My blog page title.

2) Blog page snippet (10 words average), no hyperlinks.

3) A single Adsense Text/Image-Ad that is larger than my text snippet.

[Note]
I have no control over the Adsense Ad inside the email, Feedburner + Adsense control that, still it's working very good.

It's not a regular Adsense Ad so don't go trying to stuff Adsense inside an email, you have to use Feedburner.

[domainarama]

Yukon-

You don't have to post every day. You could if you want to (you could pre-date your posts, upload them into your Blogger blog and let Blogger drip them on the appointed day). But it's not necessary.

I have a few old Blogger blogs. On one of them I post every day. On a few others I post every few days (on one of them I post once a week or less). The responses I get (visits, clicks, etc) are about equal. IOW on my old Blogger blogs posting once a day does not produce better results than random, occasional posts.

Of course, it may be possible there are other variables at play. In any case, those antique Blogger blogs can be very nice.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by domainarama

Yukon-

You don't have to post every day. You could if you want to (you could pre-date your posts, upload them into your Blogger blog and let Blogger drip them on the appointed day). But it's not necessary.

I have a few old Blogger blogs. On one of them I post every day. On a few others I post every few days (on one of them I post once a week or less). The responses I get (visits, clicks, etc) are about equal. IOW on my old Blogger blogs posting once a day does not produce better results than random, occasional posts.

Of course, it may be possible there are other variables at play. In any case, those antique Blogger blogs can be very nice.

Lol,

I do use the scheduled post option in blogger, when I'm not trying to milk this feed for more $$, lol.

What I'm doing is trying to keep an eye on my Feedburner email open rate. They have an option to watch the last 2 hours, day, 7-days, etc... (sort of like Adsense does).

I'm checking for when most people open their emails, trying to fine tune the feed/email delivery.

Right now email delivery between 5-7PM EST is kicking some butt!

That 5-7PM delivery has been during the weekdays, I want to know If I should tweak the delivery time on weekends only, then switch back to 5-7PM late Sunday nights to pick up the good email open rate again on the weekdays. I know it sounds anal, If I don't test it I'll never know.

The new Feedburner Admin. is kinda cool, the graph is in real-time, If someone opens an email it shows on the graph instantly, shows the exact date & time down to the min.

[yukon]

Four days later & this old feed is still rockin!

The first Adsense/Feedburner Email Ad click of the day was $7.53, not bad for a hobby niche.

I've been testing this feed for the last four days, weekend was lower earnings than Thurs. Fri. (still awesome earnings), so I'm going to leave my email delivery at the exact same time 7 days a week.

I can't believe I'm the only guy on this forum running Adsense/Feedburner email lists. Everyone else must be running small niche sites?

You snooze, you lose...

[rinor81]

Hey Yukon,

Can you please explain what is this Feeburner/Adsense?

It sounds amazing but I don't know exactly what you're talking about here, is it something I can join too as well and connect my adsense account to like Hubpages?

Thanks man, keep it up man! There is a lot of money online...

[yukon]

Originally Posted by rinor81

Hey Yukon,

Can you please explain what is this Feeburner/Adsense?

It sounds amazing but I don't know exactly what you're talking about here, is it something I can join too as well and connect my adsense account to like Hubpages?

Thanks man, keep it up man! There is a lot of money online...

Sure,

Feedburner (feedburner[dot]com) is owned by Google, it's purpose is to promote your sites feed.

You can create a free account (connects to your Google account), then add your existing websites feed url to Feedburner.

When you submit your feed (1 feed per domain/site) it automatically creates everything for you, you just select the options you want.

One of the options is to use your feed as an email list. This lets you use the html email list code they will generate & place that code/email-form on your website.

Try & encourage your websites traffic to signup for your email via the Feedburner form, the more traffic you get to signup on that Feedburner form the more opportunity you have to earn money with Adsense.

Once you have the emails from the Feedburner optin-form, every single time you create a new blog post on your website, Feedburner will send out an email to all your email list (1 email sent per 24 hours is the max).

This is the good part...

Inside each individual email (from Feedburner) is a single Adsense Ad, that Adsense Ad is yours/mine is directly connected to our Adsense account, you can view the payouts per click in real time.

You can also view the email traffic live (that is freakin cool!). The exact second someone opens one of my Feedburner emails I know about it inside my Feedbirner Admin, If I'm watching the screen, it shows the exact time/date (example 10:51PM 9/25/2011) the email was opened per every single email on your list.

Knowing the exact time that most of the email subscribers open their emails will help you tweak your delivery options inside Feedburner, you control what time of day in a 24 hour period your emails will be delivered.

Once you know the exact time most of your email subscribers are opening their emails, you set your Feedburner delivery time to about 1hour before that known time. This way your Feedburner/Adsense email is at the very top of the email when they first sign into their email account, BAM your right at the top & not buried on page 2 of the emails. Helps get your email in front of the subscribers fast & a better chance of getting an Adsense click inside the email.

I also know If someone opened their email account & my Feedburner email was present but not clicked, which is nice, I can see my email open rate & compare my Adsense Admin to see what percentage of opened emails made me X amount of money per day (I like data ).

So really you have at least 2 options inside Feedburner that have to be activated.

• Use your feed as an email list.
  
• Connect your Adsense to Feedburner.

Feedburner will also let you see all the exact email address that have opted into your Feedburner email list.

You can also download your entire Feedburner email list as a CSV file (Comma-Separated-Value), which is good to keep as a backup on your own PC (off-line).

Feedburner is the only possible way to get an Adsense Ad inside an email, while following the Adsense TOS.

[Rough Outline]

This is a great thread and I can definitely see the potential with this. Shame I don't run any blogs I can implement this on right now.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Rough Outline

This is a great thread and I can definitely see the potential with this. Shame I don't run any blogs I can implement this on right now.

Thanks,

You know I've had this old blog/feed for a few years & just got burnt out with the content, so I took about a year or so off & let it sit. The site made the same money with Adsense If I created new blog post or not, a few hundred pages & a small email list (Feedburner).

Then last week I found those old Halloween files on my PC & figured what the heck might as well upload the content, & then BAM I was smoking my regular Adsense earnings literally while I was asleep. I woke up the next morning & thought Adsense was messed up, no joke, I've always thought I've done a decent job at earning with Adsense over the last 5+ years & have had plenty of high earning Adsense days, but man this was killing it!

After that Thurs. & high earnings, I thought later that night "I'll upload some more content & see what happens, surely this won't happen twice in two days", not only did it happen again the 2nd day the $$ was about 25% higher than the 1st day when it first jumped.

I haven't missed a day yet (and won't) for uploading new content.

I've never really messed with email marketing before, I always just built sites for Adsense & my own products here & there.

This last week has really changed how I look at emails & email subscribers.

I'm already planning a new product, to sell on my own (without Adsense) for a hobby niche, I'm going to test my product on a small scale. If I get any email buyers no doubt I'll push this to the max.

Lol, they always say the money is in the list, I guess I'm the kind of guy that has to see it to believe it.

[pearsonbrown]

Feedburner is seriously underrated. I reckon that it's free email service is perfectly adequate for many people using broadcasts and not auto responder sequences.

Pearson

[Luke Rafferty]

Hey Yukon - just stumbled across this thread. I was not realy looking for anything but this looks like absolutle dynamite.
I have about 25k email addresses of people subscribed to my site, got these over a period of a year. so you reckon just create an email marketing campaign via feedburner and bobs your uncle???

[yukon]

Originally Posted by pearsonbrown

Feedburner is seriously underrated. I reckon that it's free email service is perfectly adequate for many people using broadcasts and not auto responder sequences.

Pearson

Hey Pearson,

Absolutely!

Feedburner is a perfect match for Adsense.

I think what's helping me with Feedburner + Adsense is, I have my feed setup as a snippet. Each feed/email only shows maybe 10 words (a single sentence).

Then the Adsense Ad is directly below the text snippet with that usual bright blue bold Adsense text/Ad-title. The Adsense Ad is the only thing with any color (blue text), the rest of the page is plain black text with a white background.

The Ads just stand out & draw attention from the email reader.

What I haven't figured out yet is, why these email Adsense Ads are paying out so much higher (per click) than my actual blog?

When I first setup this feed (a few years back) I was the first email to signup, testing to make sure it all worked (optin form, etc..), when I look at the Feedburner/Adsense emails, now all I see are insurance & college related Adsense Ads, maybe everyone else is seeing the same?

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Luke Rafferty

Hey Yukon - just stumbled across this thread. I was not realy looking for anything but this looks like absolutle dynamite.
I have about 25k email addresses of people subscribed to my site, got these over a period of a year. so you reckon just create an email marketing campaign via feedburner and bobs your uncle???

OMG!

25k list?

What kind of traffic did you have when building that list?

I'm not sure how that would work with Feedburner, importing an existing email list, I don't even know If it's possible? I know I can download my existing Feedburner list as a CSV (backup), I'm not sure If they track uploads or what?

If you can convince your list subscribers to optin via a Feedburner optin form, you should be good to go.

It would take some work, but If you give the existing list an offer they can't refuse (something free) in exchange for the Feedburner subscription, it should be worth it IMO.

Damn, I wish I had a 25k list, I'm jealous lol.

My traffic is all hobby related (men & women), my site is a site for downloading content (zip files) for free. That's my hook for traffic, give away free content, aim for Adsense clicks.

I never pushed my traffic to signup for my Feedburner email list, I just slapped a form on my blogs sidebar & forgot about it for the most part. That will soon change, because I'm planning on updating every single file on my site & include an html optin form inside each of the hundreds of zip files. I can't get back the old traffic, but I can sure target all the new traffic as future email subscribers.

It's hard telling how much potential subscribers I've wasted over the last few years. My blog gets an average of 3k page views per day, has always been my most consistent site (traffic & earnings), it just keeps on truckin along.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Luke Rafferty

Hey Yukon - just stumbled across this thread. I was not realy looking for anything but this looks like absolutle dynamite.
I have about 25k email addresses of people subscribed to my site, got these over a period of a year. so you reckon just create an email marketing campaign via feedburner and bobs your uncle???

I did a search & found this step-by-step for adding existing email list to Feedburner.

I have no idea If it works or not, looks simple, might as well give it a try.

Make sure you have a blog all setup & ready to go with existing content before you try this. I'm sure they will want your blogs feed/URL.

This link/page is dated June 2011, so it should be up to date.

Hope it helps, If it does work please come back & post in this thread that it worked, thanks.

How to Import Clients Into Feedburner | eHow.com

[Luke Rafferty]

Mental I know but it was over a period of a year, just confirmed I can import the email addresses :-) to feedburner. :-)
This is top priority for my guy here to set up.
I will come back to you in 3 days and let you know the results.
Very excited.

[ElegantDesigns]

Hi Yukon, I chanced upon your thread and just subscribed it, thank you for sharing your success as I just learnt something new. Please keep sharing and thank you once again.

[rinor81]

Originally Posted by yukon

Sure,

Feedburner is owned by Google, it's purpose is to promote your sites feed.

You can create a free account (connects to your Google account), then add your existing websites feed url to Feedburner.

When you submit your feed (1 feed per domain/site) it automatically creates everything for you, you just select the options you want.

One of the options is to use your feed as an email list. This lets you use the html email list code they will generate & place that code/email-form on your website.

Try & encourage your websites traffic to signup for your email via the Feedburner form, the more traffic you get to signup on that Feedburner form the more opportunity you have to earn money with Adsense.

Once you have the emails from the Feedburner optin-form, every single time you create a new blog post on your website Feedburner will send out an email to all your email list (1 email sent per 24 hours is the max).

This is the good part...

Inside each individual email (from Feedburner) is a single Adsense Ad, that Adsense Ad is yours/mine is directly connected to our Adsense account, you can view the payouts per click in real time.

You can also view the email traffic live (that is freakin cool!). The exact second someone opens one of my Feedburner emails I know about it inside my Feedbirner Admin, If I'm watching the screen, it shows the exact time/date (example 10:51PM 9/25/2011) the email was opened per every single email on your list.

Knowing the exact time that most of the email subscribers open their emails will help you tweak you delivery options inside Feedburner, you control what time of day in a 24 hour period your emails will be delivered.

Once you know the exact time most of your email subscribers are opening their emails, you set your Feedburner delivery time to about 1hour before that known time. This way your Feedburner/Adsense email is at the very top of the email when they first sign into their email account, BAM your right at the top & not buried on page 2 of the emails. Helps get your email in front of the subscribers fast & a better chance of getting an Adsense click inside the email.

I also know If someone opened their email account & my Feedburner email was present but not clicked, which is nice, I can see my email open rate & compare my Adsense Admin to see what percentage of opened emails made me X amount of money per day (I like data ).

So really you have at least 2 options inside Feedburner that have to be activated.

• Use your feed as an email list.
  
• Connect your Adsense to Feedburner.

Feedburner will also let you see all the exact email address that have opted into your Feedburner email list.

You can also download your entire Feedburner email list as a CSV file (Comma-Separated-Value), which is good to keep as a backup on your own PC (off-line).

Feedburner is the only possible way to get an Adsense Ad inside an email, while following the Adsense TOS.

Thank you very much my dear friend, I'll check it out...

How are the ads determined in the e-mail? Are the ads in the e-mail is according to your site's/blog theme/niche? You said you had clicks which were $7-$8

Thanks man!

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Luke Rafferty

Mental I know but it was over a period of a year, just confirmed I can import the email addresses :-) to feedburner. :-)
This is top priority for my guy here to set up.
I will come back to you in 3 days and let you know the results.
Very excited.

Cool, thanks for the updates.

Keep in mind your only allowed 1 email per 24-hours via Feedburner. It doesn't matter If you create 27 blog post in a single day, feedburner will still only send out a single email, that will contain all 27 blog post into a single feed.

IMO, 1 blog post per 24 hours should be your target, the reason is once you see how dirt simple these emails are (don't forget to subscribe ) you'll see that 1 Adsense Ad & how much it stands out on the email page, it's the only thing that looks like it has a hyperlink inside the email. Even the actual link/Page-title looks like plain text, that's all Feedburner, you have no option to change that default look (I would never change it anyways).

So only shoot for 1 blog post per 24 hours (max). Obviously you should test it yourself to see what works best for you, I'm just giving you a heads up what is working for me.

Make sure to set your blog post as a snippet (that's important), no hyperlinks inside the snippet of text. You want to leave the traffic only 3 options to navigate away from the email page:

• Click Adsense
• Click The blog post title inside the email
• Click away from the email from inside their email Admin.

You'll need to set the exact time frame you want the emails delivered via Feedburner, each time setting has a 2-hour window they will deliver (example 3-5 PM).

BTW, you do already have an existing Adsense account , right?

[larrydcook]

Good insight on this thread learned alot just want to say thanks to all who are posting here!!

[yukon]

Originally Posted by rinor81

Thank you very much my dear friend, I'll check it out...

How are the ads determined in the e-mail? Are the ads in the e-mail is according to your site's/blog theme/niche? You said you had clicks which were $7-$8

Thanks man!

Feedburner controls everything about the Adsense Ads inside the emails, all you do is connect your existing Adsense account inside the Feedburner Admin (very easy).

This weekend Sat. Sun. dipped a little on $$ per clicks (I watched my accounts like a hawk both days), since last Thurs. until today I've seen clicks that are between around $3.50 - $8.00 (per click).

I'll be honest, I have no idea why Feedburner is paying out more per click than my actual website, If I knew I would tweak my site to match the per click payout. Still I have no idea why it's so much higher, my site that this feed is connected to get's an average $1.50 per click, it's a hobby site, so it's not targeting anything like insurance or health related keywords.

My earnings are also up on the actual blog, but that's just because the traffic is up since I've been posting new content, which is understandable.

[Domsa]

Do you use wp-feedburner for this? I'm a bit lost I'm afraid. I understand how you do it, I just don't get how you set it up. I'm probably missing the obvious since I haven't slept properly in 48 hours :S

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Domsa

Do you use wp-feedburner for this? I'm a bit lost I'm afraid. I understand how you do it, I just don't get how you set it up. I'm probably missing the obvious since I haven't slept properly in 48 hours :S

No, I don't use any plugins for anything related to Feedburner. Looks like all that wp-feedburner plugin does is add the Feedburner email optin count to your WP Admin, that's not needed IMO, the new Feedburner Admin. is where all the real data is.

[source]

Wp-Feedburner is a plugin which deals with everything Feedburner but for now, it will simply add your feedburner subscriber count to your Dashboard.

[Domsa]

Is there any chance you can PM me what to do after I have setup a feed for my website & put my AdSense ad on it? I would be very thankful

I guess the sleep deprivation is getting the best of me :/

[rinor81]

Yukon,

Can I PM you my man?

I don't do blogs yet, just sites...is it possible to succeed with a site? If I have a new page say on the site then the Feedburner will mention that?

Also, my plan with Adsense is to create plenty of sites because I don't see myself getting a site with 3,000 visitors a day so way to go man!!!

I plan to create sites for keywords of 2,000+ exact search results per month, may I ask what is your search results per month man? 3,000 a day is amazing!!!

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Domsa

Is there any chance you can PM me what to do after I have setup a feed for my website & put my AdSense ad on it? I would be very thankful

I guess the sleep deprivation is getting the best of me :/

Sure, getting ready to PM you.

You might want to get some sleep soon, lol.

[edit]
Actually instead of the PM, I'll post that info here, because it is confusing when setting up your first email list on Feedburner. Some of the options are kinda hidden IMO.

Give me a min. I'll post again with a step-by-step...

[yukon]

This is how to setup your first email list on Feedburner, some things are kinda hidden, I'll try to explain the best I can.

The instructions below are based on the old Feedburner Admin, which has a blue colored background on the pages. The new Beta Feedburner pages are all white backgrounds.


1) Login to Feedburner & select your sites feed

2) Click the Publicize at the top/middle of the page (see screenshot below).

3) Click Email Subscriptions in the left sidebar.

4) Click the Activate button at the bottom/center of the page.

5) Scroll down the Email page, Copy & Paste the Feedburner email code into your sites html source code. I put mine in the sidebar on my blog.

On blogger I just use a text-gadget in the template designer, paste the Feedburner code into that. On Wordpress I just paste the Feedburner code directly into the themes source code (example: sidebar.php).

Copy and paste the following code into any web page. Your subscription form will be automatically inserted each time the page is loaded. From there, readers can subscribe to receive daily email with your newest content.

6) Now we need to set the time frame that we want to have our Feedburner emails delivered. Click the Delivery Options link in the left sidebar on the Feedburner email Admin. page.

Select the timezone & the time frame you want the emails delivered.

• Select Timezone:
• Schedule Email Delivery:

I pick my own timezone EST & 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, works good so far.

7) Go to your webpage that you pasted the Feedburner code into & subscribe to your own Feedburner feed. You might want to adjust the Feedburner email delivery time before you subscribe, set it to the next available delivery time frame, so you don't have to wait 24 hours to recieve your test email. This way it will take 2 hours max. to recieve the test email.

8) Create a new blog post for testing the email, & wait for the email in your inbox.


[note]
When your finished & recieve the test email make sure to reset the correct Feedburner email delivery time frame.

[JoshuaG]

Well, you've opened my eyes...

I've never bothered with RSS on my sites because I figured the average user wouldn't be tech savvy/interested enough to use RSS. Is your site in a tech sort of niche?

Regardless, I guess its amazing what people will do simply because they can.

Thanks!

[yukon]

Originally Posted by rinor81

Yukon,

Can I PM you my man?

I don't do blogs yet, just sites...is it possible to succeed with a site? If I have a new page say on the site then the Feedburner will mention that?

Also, my plan with Adsense is to create plenty of sites because I don't see myself getting a site with 3,000 visitors a day so way to go man!!!

I plan to create sites for keywords of 2,000+ exact search results per month, may I ask what is your search results per month man? 3,000 a day is amazing!!!

I'm not sure what your options are for plain html sites. I know sites exist that will convert any site into an rss feed, but I'm not sure they update automatically?

As far as I know Feedburner requires a feed url, in order to work automatically each time you create a new blog post.

My traffic is really around 1-2k uniques per day, that 3,000 is page views for the whole site per day. So on a slow month I'll get around 30k uniques for that blog.

I get a 50/50 mixture of hobby forum traffic & Google SERP traffic (I don't own the hobby forums, but I'm a Mod. on one of them).

I plan on doing at least double that traffic, since I'm semi interested in the old blog again (money will give you motivation, lol ).

It sucks & I could kick myself for not pushing my Feedburner optin list a long time ago, but you can't change the past, just move forward & learn as you go. It would have been nice to know that Feedburner could produce great Adsense earnings about 5 years ago.

[Luke Rafferty]

yep have a adsense account - this sounds like it is going to rock! :-)
also thanks for all the details/info on set up etc
will be back to post the results, fingers crossed :-)

[yukon]

Originally Posted by JoshuaG

Well, you've opened my eyes...

I've never bothered with RSS on my sites because I figured the average user wouldn't be tech savvy/interested enough to use RSS. Is your site in a tech sort of niche?

Regardless, I guess its amazing what people will do simply because they can.

Thanks!

Hey man,

That's the real kicker with Feedburner/Adsense, my site is a hobby site for both men & women. I've never surveyed the traffic (I should) but I'm pretty sure a very high percentage aren't tech savy.

The one thing my traffic has, & they know how to use is their personal email accounts.

Anyone with a site for needlepoint could make this work, that's not my niche, lol, I'm just trying to say the niche isn't important. What's important is you have traffic that knows how to open an email.

If you can get them to open that email (without telling them to) you have a 50/50 shot at getting an Adsense click. I'm telling you, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, ha, ha.

Thing is you have to still follow the Adsense TOS, don't tell them to open an email & click anything.

Give them a reason to want to open the email, which is great content. In fact it really doesn't even need to be great content, give them something free (not inside the email) & they'll open the email, BAM Adsense Ad!

Keep the snippet of text at a sentence or two, with no hyperlinks, you don't want them to click through to your site, the goal is the Adsense click. They still have the option to click through to your site from the blog post title inside the email. That blog post title is a hyperlink, but it doesn't look like a hyperlink, it looks like a plain black bold text in an <h2> tag.

When I look at my emails, the only thing that looks like it has a hyperlink is the Adsense Ad. Which is totally legit, because Feedburner has 100% control over what the entire page looks like.

Don't anyone get me wrong, you still want the blog page to have real content, but hey were all in it for the money, I know I am. I just kinda got lucky with this one site, because I was creating the content & giving it away for free long before I ever new what IM was.

This Feedburner gig is a good deal once you have a site with traffic, heck 1 blog post a day that can be scheduled in advance is nothing. It takes me less than 1/2 hour to create content, that's If I take my time & go slow.

If the Feedburner $$ doesn't dry up between now & the first of the year (2012), all of 2012 will be about growing this email list, other new list.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Luke Rafferty

yep have a adsense account - this sounds like it is going to rock! :-)
also thanks for all the details/info on set up etc
will be back to post the results, fingers crossed :-)

Anytime!

Now you have the BIG email list already, so we want to hear about the BIG $$!

Man, If you can get even a small 1% CTR at a low $0.50 x 25K traffic on the Feedburner/Adsense Ads, that's still $125.00 (per day) on auto-pilot.

You still have to create content, but heck with the money coming in from that list you can easily out-source 100% of the content, & just focus on building your list, or new list & repeat.

I can't say what kind of money you'll get per Ad click (Feedburner/Adsense), but I know what I'm getting with a very small email list (per click).

If the $$ per click is similar for you, dude, you'll be set (no joke).

The reason I'm saying this is, all my Feedburner/Adsense clicks are above $3 with an average maybe around $6 since the weekend sucked compared to Thurs. & Fri.,

Today has started out really good (like Thurs.) & my daily blog post hasn't even went live yet. So far, each time my email goes out from Feedburner, I get a large spike in traffic for the email & the actual website that also has Adsense on it (2 for1 ).

I really do hope you get high $$ Ad clicks so I know it's not just a freak occurrence going on with just this one feed. This is the only email list I have to work with right now.

Good luck,

[Luke Rafferty]

hey yukon - all well?
it seems I am not able to import the email list :-(
i have emailed them as per your 'ehow' link that you posted above but have not heard anything back from them.
any ideas?

[domainarama]

Yukon -

Probably by the time you read this post I will have answered my question by doing things, but it would be nice for everyone to see the answer.

The question: does this method work ONLY for written content in the form of words? I have a lot of videos and youtube content on some of my Blogger blogs and I have Blogger blogs which are essentially galleries for photos I've taken. Will this method work for videos or photos or other non-word content?

Now it's off to dinner, then I will play around tonight and test what other kinds of content work.

BTW THANX A LOT for opening my eyes to this technique. Somehow or other I will make it work for my needs. Thank you for a great share!

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Luke Rafferty

hey yukon - all well?
it seems I am not able to import the email list :-(
i have emailed them as per your 'ehow' link that you posted above but have not heard anything back from them.
any ideas?

That's to bad you haven't had a reply from Feedburner.

Plan-B is like I said before, create a single awesome bit of content, something folks might be willing to pay for, then give the content away for free in exchange for them signing up for your Feedburner list.

You can make your email list go viral with the right niche + free give-away.

I know one of my competition has a monthly Free drwaing & the winner gets something most times valued at around $300 on Amazon.

My competition has a Google Friend Connect subscribers list of over 25,000 in the hobby niche.

They are wasting money IMO, because I know for a fact I could convert that 25k subscribers into some awesome Adsense earnings via Feedburner/Adsense email.

This is how I plan on growing my own Feedburner email list. I might have to make it look like it's not a contest I'm not sure yet about all the related TOS when creating a list on Feedburner/Adsense.

Getting the list to opt-in on the new Feedburner list is the only way I know will work.

I'll keep looking for a contact on Feedburner...

[yukon]

Originally Posted by domainarama

Yukon -

Probably by the time you read this post I will have answered my question by doing things, but it would be nice for everyone to see the answer.

The question: does this method work ONLY for written content in the form of words? I have a lot of videos and youtube content on some of my Blogger blogs and I have Blogger blogs which are essentially galleries for photos I've taken. Will this method work for videos or photos or other non-word content?

Now it's off to dinner, then I will play around tonight and test what other kinds of content work.

BTW THANX A LOT for opening my eyes to this technique. Somehow or other I will make it work for my needs. Thank you for a great share!

Your in luck!

My entire blog has zero articles.

You will still need to setup your blog so that you have at least a single line of text (one sentence). Then make sure your blog is setup to only show a snippet of text.

I would not allow any videos inside an email (nothing)! All you want is the:

• Page title
• Snippet of text
• Adsense

Inside the email, keep it very simple, don't give the subscribers to many exit points (links). The only exits you want them to click on is the Page Title or Adsense, inside the email.

[4morereferrals]

Originally Posted by yukon

Your in luck!

My entire blog has zero articles.

You will still need to setup your blog so that you have at least a single line of text (one sentence). Then make sure your blog is setup to only show a snippet of text.

I would not allow any videos inside an email (nothing)! All you want is the:

• Page title
• Snippet of text
• Adsense

Inside the email, keep it very simple, don't give the subscribers to many exit points (links). The only exits you want them to click on is the Page Title or Adsense, inside the email.

Hrmmm ...

So the ads arent in the blog's post - just the rss feeds?

Slow Drip Auto Blogs? 1 post per day - schedule the cron to fire the post at x minute of x hour ... hrmmm ....

I gots a LOT of blogger blogs sitting around doing indexing duty - surely I could scale the posts per day counts back on a few [hundred] of them and and find some very interesting and eclectic feeds to post from. [ you say tomahhhto - I say quality content ] meh ...

The laughable part is the partial content [ snippets ] typically meet TOS of the feed producers with a attribution link back to them

[yukon]

Originally Posted by 4morereferrals

Hrmmm ...

So the ads arent in the blog's post - just the rss feeds?

Slow Drip Auto Blogs? 1 post per day - schedule the cron to fire the post at x minute of x hour ... hrmmm ....

I gots a LOT of blogger blogs sitting around doing indexing duty - surely I could scale the posts per day counts back on a few [hundred] of them and and find some very interesting and eclectic feeds to post from. [ you say tomahhhto - I say quality content ] meh ...

The laughable part is the partial content [ snippets ] typically meet TOS of the feed producers with a attribution link back to them

I guess I should point out that I have hundreds of pages of content that my subscribers actually enjoy.

Content does not mean only articles, I have zero articles & hundreds of .zip files of offline material that my subscribers download from my site/blog.

My subscribers only opt-in to my Feedburner email list because they know they'll get the download files link (blog page url) sent to them in an email.

So the ads arent in the blog's post - just the rss feeds?

That's exactly correct. The Adsense Ads inside the email/feed have nothing to do with a regular Adsense account, other than you get paid for the Adsense clicks.

You have no control over any Adsense formatting inside the email/feed, that's all handled by Feedburner.

That might sound limiting, but I could care less what they do as long as my per click Adsense earnings is cranking out awesome numbers.

As far as posting new blog post every single day, I've stopped that now & will only post twice a week. The reason is, I've had 1 email response from a Feedburner/email subscriber that was pissed off because I kept sending out new post every single day, I'll take that as a warning from everyone on my list.

I plan on keeping my Feedburner email list happy with fresh content, I'm just going to scale back a little, maybe 2 new blog post max per week.

I think this is a better long term aproach than just keep hammering out emails every single day & running everyone away from my list.

A happy list, is a money list, lol.

BTW, I haven't posted any new emails in 2 days, yesterday dipped a little in earnings, today bounced right back. I think I'm on the right track (2 post max. per week).

[Fraggler]

If someone knows how to add a subscriber to Feedburner as well as a managed mailing list provider (aweber ideally) on submit then I'd love to know. I just like to have more control over broadcasts outside of the scheduled RSS updates.

Is Feedburner single or confirmed opt-in?
Can you send out a thank you email on subscription - so I can offer a freebie for subscribing.

Thanks for sharing this, yukon.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by 2423898

I haven't made much with that program yet. I hope to when i get more subscribers.

No doubt, it's all in the numbers, the more traffic (email subscribers) the more opportunity to earn a nice profit from Adsense inside the emails.

All I can suggest is keep at it, & set some goals for your site/blog/subscribers.

One thing I learned a few years back, people will take anything If it's free.

Find a niche & something you can create (content), build the Feedburner list, then monetize the email list with Adsense.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Fraggler

If someone knows how to add a subscriber to Feedburner as well as a managed mailing list provider (aweber ideally) on submit then I'd love to know. I just like to have more control over broadcasts outside of the scheduled RSS updates.

Is Feedburner single or confirmed opt-in?
Can you send out a thank you email on subscription - so I can offer a freebie for subscribing.

Thanks for sharing this, yukon.

Hey Fraggler,

Yes, Feedburner is a double opt-in, once they fill out the Feedburner email form on your site & click the subscribe button, they will then need to go to their email & finish the verification via Fedburner.

I get about 5% that never finish the opt-in, so they never get emails.

I also keep my email list cleaned up, anyone that fills out the email form on my site & doesn't verify with Feedburner gets deleted from my email list (by me), If no verification in 30 days, they are history.

You get full control over all the email address inside Feedburner, you can also download the entire list as a CSV file to your PC.

What's kinda cool about this (Feedburner + Adsense + email) is If you build an email list & right now monetize with Adsense inside the email, later on (year or two from now) you can take your email list straight over to Aweber (or whatever) & use the list in other IM ways, as long as it's all related to the original site-opt-in.

You can customize the verification email to include a custom message, I'm not sure If HTML is allowed, I'll have to test that later, on my test blog.

[achong]

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[4morereferrals]

Originally Posted by Fraggler

If someone knows how to add a subscriber to Feedburner as well as a managed mailing list provider (aweber ideally) on submit then I'd love to know. I just like to have more control over broadcasts outside of the scheduled RSS updates.

Is Feedburner single or confirmed opt-in?
Can you send out a thank you email on subscription - so I can offer a freebie for subscribing.

Thanks for sharing this, yukon.

Fraggler,

You're already using this feature - and dont like the scheduling?

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Ive not yet used this Yukon/Fraggler - but the thought was ... for those of us already with lists [ not just IM lists but offliner stuff too ] this might be interesting to make my scheduled autoresponder series - into scheduled blog posts - that go out to the aweber lists via this blog post rss feed -->> email broadcast - but alas ... now that i think it through - no go... new subs would not have a way to start at the front of the series if they got the series via blog posts.

All this just to weave adsense into feedburner into inboxes ... would love to make this work without trying to become a novelist - guess I could hire it.