Part 3 of the mini-series of posts dedicated to RSS technology and its benefits will build upon information shared in 2 previous posts:

• What is RSS and How You “Feed” It
• What Is RSS And How You “Eat” It

… and in it I will not beat around the bush and want to concentrate directly on what is “near and dear” to every blogger – monetizing the RSS feed without loosing integrity of the blog and annoying our most precious readers – our loyal subscribers!

There have been a lot of talk lately about Google AdSense stopped been the true contender for income and while in many ways it’s true (I don’t use simply because affiliate links pay me more) it is still a valuable source of income for great many people. People who have no clue about other form of Internet Marketing or income and quite frankly – probably not even interested to get into all the complexity associated with it.

And just yesterday I read a story featured on USA Today “Gray Googlers strike gold” that I think is a great inspiration for people who are looking to not get rich but perhaps simply supplement their existing income in exchange for couple, three hours of daily work. But it goes beyond that …

One of the most common reasons we fail to succeed is the lack of appropriate prerequisites: lack of knowledge, lack of experience, lack of full information, lack of time, etc. In affiliate marketing it is most apparent when you attempt to sell a product you have never had a chance to see.

Not only do you risk to not make any sales but what is even worse – you risk to damage your reputation by recommending a product you have never seen and only base you recommendation on information provided in affiliates section or hype (an absolute no-no). But for every problem there is a solution … even though it is not perfect, it is very well implemented …

In this [tag]Video Tutorial[/tag] I will share a very effective technique I have been personally using on my blog since its inception. A marketing technique that has proven to be extremely effective and to date responcible for over $2500 of income generated by this blog.

While the number is not overly impressive – it is a hands off blog income. Set and forget type of strategy that each and everyone is striving for in their blog monetization model. What stopped me from sharing this before is that the script required some knowledge to install and properly configure that might have put it beyond many users. Well, now it’s as simple as copy and paste and will not cost you a dime!

So, start peeling the profits with this great Free Service! (click to singup) see the full post for Video Tutorial!

Stephen from php.aspcode.net just released his [tag-tec]wpAdMentor[/tag-tec] plugin. While I’m only getting ready to implement this plugin on my blog it shows some great promise. Stephen managed to combine all the options I was looking for in non-commercial plugin with ease of usage that accompanies all great [tag-tec]WordPress plugins[/tag-tec].

Some of the features I was looking for and provided by this plugin:

Youtube is popular and fun and if you vlog – can be a great source of traffic assuming you are creating your own videos. But using it exclusively you are actually doing yourself a great disservice!

Ditch that dump and use something better on your vlog! And no, I don’t mean not to use it at all but simply using it in combination with a more superior service, which creates a lot higher quality videos and Pays You!