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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>JG Etc.  - Latest Comments in Content without Brand is Bad for the Bottom Line</title><link>http://jgetc.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 03:39:02 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Content without Brand is Bad for the Bottom Line</title><link>http://www.jamesgross.com/content-without-brand-is-bad-for-the-bottom-line/#comment-7415691</link><description>I use my feed as a loss leader. I balance the convenience to my feed readership against growing my overall traffic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since adding full-fat feeds, I've seen the number of subscriptions increase, and the number of click-thrus climb quite steeply, too.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Additionally, if you're using something like FeedBurner, and you hit the magic number of subscribers (which incidentally, I have no idea what that number is) then you get invited to their FAN (FeedBurner Ad Network,) which is where you begin to monetize your feed readership.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There's also an opportunity for the likes of FeedBurner here, to make the feed experience a richer and more engaging one, while not becoming a full-blow web log.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An experience that stops people clearing your stall out of fresh fruit...</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Wayne Smallman</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 03:39:02 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Content without Brand is Bad for the Bottom Line</title><link>http://www.jamesgross.com/content-without-brand-is-bad-for-the-bottom-line/#comment-7415690</link><description>Websites' content silos will start to fall depending on two factors: (1) quality control over the distribution (so videos/text feeds don't wind up on "inappropriate sites") and (2) monetization of distributed content. Especially (2), which is already starting to happen on the web and cross-platform.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jules</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:05:13 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>