Google is Expiring Adsense for Feeds, so no more earnings from your feeds in Adsense.
Read the Official announcement here.
AdSense for Feeds was designed to help publishers earn revenue from their content by placing ads on their RSS feeds. Starting October 2, we’ll begin to retire this feature—and on December 3 we’ll close it. Publishers can continue to use FeedBurner URLs powered by Google, so they won’t need to redirect subscribers to different URLs.
It is a non-news for me because Adsense for Feeds has been doing horribly bad for me in 2012. I hardly made anything in whole of 2012 in Adsense for feeds.
But what TechCrunch reported is shocking to me.
Google even let its FeedBurner domain name for Japan expire.
Not even spending few bucks on domain renewal.
Adsense for domains and now Adsense for Feedburner, Is this the confirmation of Adsense Dying Natural Death or this is Google’s ways of focusing on performing (Read bringing $$) assets?
What Feedburner Alternatives are you opting to?
But if you are not planning to subscribe through Email. Try subscribing to RSS.
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I think it is better to focus on email list building via aweber or getresponse instead of using feedburner email.
If feedburner dies, For general RSS feeds, wordpress is good enough. Only thing we will miss is the count chicklet.
I am planning to move the Feeds to FeedBlitz as well. Still planning and don’t want to be doing it in a hurry.