Monetizing Your Blogger Feeds With Pheedo

Pheedo is a feed advertising platform that gives you a way to monetize your site feeds through advertising. Pheedo is a great option for blogs like mine that do not have the large number of feed subscribers that are required to participate in other projects such as Adsense for feeds, Feedburner, or if you are using Blogger, which not all feed advertising platforms are compatible with (ex Feedvertising through Text-Link-Ads requires Wordpress.) There isn't much information on adding Pheedo to Blogger, but it is a very simple process I will share with you.

To get started you will need to setup an account with Pheedo, which I found to be as painless as possible, since they did not require much information.

You will need to choose a configuration for your feed, and if you are using blogger the easy choice will be the Green zone, which allows you to place the code feed item footer the Blogger settings.

Once you have entered all of your information, such as what type of advertising you would like to display, you will be able to copy your Pheedo code from Feed & Zones settings section. Just place this code in the settings -> feed items -> feed item footer section.


Be sure if you did not provide your address in the initial setup to go back and enter the address you would like your check to be sent to in your account details. You are now ready to start monetizing your site feeds through Blogger.

5 Things Blogger Need (Or Needs to Improve On)

This is list contains 5 items I feel would make Blogger a better experience for all of its users.

1. Bloggers comment system needs some serious work. One thing that frustrates me the most is that when you leave a comment you are required to do so from your Blogger profile or anonymously.

2. The ability to upload a robots.txt file, or have some type of site mapping system would be great. Google should really want to add this as it would help people take Blogger more seriously by giving Blogger users the ability to optimize for search engines.
   

3. More default templates would attract new users, and at least add some 3 columns default templates. Blogger could also encourage more users to create free templates with some form of notoriety
   

4. Live stats that allow you to view where visitors are coming from, and allow you to view page views, new visitors, and length of visit.
   

5. More options that allow you to remove the dashbar, or an easier way to change the favicon. Personally I do not mind putting up some link that says powered by blogger, but the dashbar is just annoying as is the favicon. Giving your users the ability to personalize their pages more encourages participation.
   

In all the free version of Blogger is not all that bad, but these are 5 things that could help improve the user experience on the free blogging platform. Blogger’s free version is much better to me than Wordpress free blog system, due to the fact you are able to add more scripts plus put ads up. If the free version of Wordpress allowed more scripts, and ads it would be a much better free blogging system.

Blogger Issues

Seems as though Blogger has been having some issues today with stability. Techspews was up and down for a number of hours. The only problem with using a free blogging and hosting service is when you are down no one really cares and you can't gripe at anyone.

The really upsetting part is I just posted a blog about an hour before the problems started happening endorsing blogger as a great service. Hopefully they have resolved all of the issues for now. The worst part about it is whenever blogger is down Google Apps for your domain is down as well so you can't get to email for your domain or anything.

I guess you get what you pay for and when you don't pay anything you can't expect much.