If you have an active blog or website with RSS feeds enabled, Feedburner can be a very useful tool to see how many are subscribing to your feed and what’s being looked at and downloaded. I recently upgraded my Feedburner account to the *new* Google version last month because I wanted to check out the new Adsense integration features. This would allow me to put Google Adsense ads into my feeds.
After the migration was all said and done, I lost almost two years of feed stats on my podcast. Major bummer. So even though you can maybe, I highly stress maybe here, make a few bucks off of some ads, make sure you’re willing to lose all history of your statistics.
Doesn’t look like it’ll be optional anyway. The Feedburner blog says that everyone will have to migrate to the new service or redirect their feed handling back to the original host.
I bet they’ll eventually import the blogger data into Google analytics, but hey, why export a database repeatedly when you can move all the users off it, export the data, then import it to the new service only once.
I was bummed to learn that Google only pays out on Adsense when you hit $100 in revenue…so it takes quite a while on a smaller blog.
Yeah, the payout used to be $20, but after Google took over it got upped to $100. I’ve been using Adsense for 1 year now and have made $20. So maybe I’ll get a check in 2012?
I’ve had it on since…maybe March, and I’m up to $15.
I’m finding the embedded google search bar and the context ads under every third post pays out faster than an ad in the sidebar did.
I’m trying on some video ads on the movie blog