(long time fan)

I think that from a *reader*’s point of view full RSS feeds are understandable. In this day and age, I certainly am more cognizant of how powerful the consumer is — and how the tastes of the internet are an evolution of that.

Sadly, however, something needs to pay the bills; and for many small time bloggers, adsense helps with that. Its funny how there is a distinct distaste amongst the digerati for ads — see “21 Ways to Attract Traffic to Your Blog” … under “Eschew Advertising” — first sentence: “I hate Adsense on Blogs”.
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1347

At any rate, its interesting how you mention RSS advertising; i’ve seen it on some (http://www.crate.com for example) but not a heck of a lot of other sites.

One wonders if there will be a similar ‘distaste’ (backlash?) if RSS advertising ever hits a ‘tipping point’ with a critical number of bloggers and we see it en masse.

First some were griping about full vs. partial feeds — will we ever see a debate about pure (no ads) vs. polluted (ads) feeds?

Time will tell. ;)

Being little is a funny thing, too. Technorati says I’m somewhat big in my niche because a few hundred blogs have linked to mine in the past six months. But my blog only receives a few hundred page views a day. Part of the link popularity is due to my subject – professional blogging – and part of it is due to my being in a network of several dozen blogs that link automatically to mine. In other words, I’m much littler than I might seem at first glance. It just amazes me that a blog can seem much more popular or heavily-trafficked than it really is.

Thanks for stopping by.

While I agree that most people who are using rss feeds are probably savvy enough to not really click on ads, they still serve their purpose.

And that is that not all ad networks are PPC but some are still charging by CPC — impressions still count as dollars, and therefore, they still pay the bills.

As for search engines elminating splogs — well, I hope that’s true. Its certainly in the best interest of Google from many perspectives; it seems like only now that Overture — now Yahoo — is catching up with ClickFraud it perpetrated years ago.

I wonder if the splogging that’s happening now will have ramifications in the future for Google; from the publishers that have spent ad dollars for their ads to pop up on splog networks and to have their ads clicked on disingenuously; or from content produceres, finding that their works are on Splogs which are being used for AdSese schemes.

Thanks for the interesting post.

If you have regular readers, they’re not going to be clicking on every ad they see on your page. They’re there to read.

Do some tests with your referrals, follow the IPs — the people that come in from google will look at one page and disappear after they click an ad, the people who come in through the home page or from another site will look around and read.

Eventually search engines will be eliminating splogs automatically.