I would suggest that you keep your advertising to less than 20% of your feed. That would mean that in an RSS feed with 10 items in it, you have no more than 2 items that are advertising. I can see this number though getting dictated by likes of Google and other advertising agencies.

The advertising must add value to your visitor

The advertising will need to look like a news story in order to be successful. If it is simply tagged as advertising, click through rate will most likely be horrible. At same time though, link will need to be truly useful for someone looking for information on that particular topic. If you have a feed on maintaining a vibrant garden and advertisers' link is about being computer parts, this would very much turn off visitors and webmasters alike. Companies like Google though have become pretty good at targeting their advertisers to context of page or content so I don't see this as a big problem when using these services.

Should you add advertising to your RSS feeds? Yes, but be cautious about it. RSS feeds are truly useful to your overall marketing goals even if you abstain from putting any advertising in them.

Some of these marketers actually tell you these are GOOD and EFFECTIVE marketing tips. Yes, these subject lines may get reader to open it because they believe it is from a program they might have just signed up for or they think it is indeed a commission notification. But when they find out what email is really about, 9 times out of 10 they will delete it. Now, is that a good marketing tip?? Do you really think that a reader will actually go to your site and sign up under you when you tricked them into opening up email in first place?

You do not need to use these types of tactics to get traffic to your site, there are other HONEST ways to achieve that. If you are going to promote your opportunity, do it with taste.

I try to provide our own members with a Safe, Honest and Responsive way for anyone to promote their ads. This is our "Mission". Many other safelist owners are now demonstrating this same "Mission". We do this, because we CARE about all of our members and want to make sure their stay with us is an enjoyable one !

Always remember these words, they work in marketing arena as well as everyday life..... HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. If you adhere to honest marketing ethics, then you will gain respect, admiration and SIGNUPS!!

They will KNOW they can depend on YOU!

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