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April 7th, 2005

How “Good” Are RSS Ads?

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By “good” I mean would I actually click on one, and is the click-on result relevant to the content.

In my “post”:http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/04/06/19.35.57/ on why RSS ads are important, I wrote about how this “article”:http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3439321 discussing “MobileTracker.net’s”:http://www.MobileTracker.net use of Feedburner’s feed-serving technology. This allows Feedburner to serve ads within MobileTracker’s RSS feed.

To try some RSS ads out, I used “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com to set up a RSS feed from Mobile.net. The first ad within the feed was attached to a post entitled “_Virgin Mobile launches K10 Royale_”:http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2005/04/06/kyocera-k10-royale . The ad was for _Ring Tones and Wallpapers from Jamster_ which points to “here”:http://jamster.com/generated/jiw/html/affiliate/index_static_en_US.html?zanpid=1776277C224235522S262522. Here’s a screenshot this post and ad.

!http://www.zoinger.com/img/feedburner_ad1.png!

Ok, I might not be their target, but I could see people clicking on that.

The second ad was for _Liquid Lense - $13.95_ which points “here”:http://www.tvproducts2000.net/examples/item144.html. It’s a little off topic from the post’s content, but you can see the “match.” Heck, they might even sell some of the stuff. Liquid Lense, that is. Liquid Lense “_Repairs Scratched & Cloudy Glasses_”… oh, and for the quality seal of approval… “_As Seen on TV_”.

!http://www.zoinger.com/img/feedburner_ad2.png!

And finally, this one.

!http://www.zoinger.com/img/feedburner_ad3.png!

Which leads to YourMobileDesk.com’s “page”:http://www.yourmobiledesk.com/products/subcategory.cfm?catID=108&mfrID=189&shmsg=1&list=all&subcatID=278&mfrall=1&OVRAW=zip%20linq&OVKEY=zip%20linq&OVMTC=content offering all times of retractable-cable products (like a mini travel mouse). Pretty good.

Man, these are all better than the old days on the GlobalHyperMegaNet with endless ads for “ImGonnaFailRealSoon.bomb”:http://www.fuckedcompany.com.


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