One way to increase your AdSense revenue is to put them in your blog feed, so your readers subscribing to the feed will get advertisement banners and text provided by AdSense. It will increase the ads impression and will impact to the increase of your revenue. This article explains how to configure Feedburner feed for your web or blog, setup AdSense for feed, and setup a WordPress plugin to redirect all feed request to your blog to Feedburner feed that’s already setup.

Setup FeedBurner feed

First thing to do is to setup a feed address by FeedBurner. Log into http://feedburner.google.com and use your Google account.  FeedBurner is a feed republishing service which will read feed provided by your web or blog and then publish it to your readers. This way, you can get a statistic of your readers, traffic analysis, and advertisements.

After log into Feedburner account, you will see a page like this.

You need to enter your web or blog feed address on the bottom field and click Next button. If you do not know your feed address, try to look at your web or blog and find a link with a title “Feed” or this icon . If you use WordPress, then the feed address will likely be http://yourblog.com/feed , in this example we are going to use my personal blog’s feed located at http://akhdaniel.wordpress.com/feed.

Click Next button when you are done.

Next, you need to enter the title of your feed and specify the FeedBurner address for your new feed. This new address is the one that your readers will use for subscribing to your feed. But, different from your original WordPress feed it will be tracked for statistics, traffic analysis, and advertisements (if we have done the last step later).

Click on Next button.

Your FeedBurner feed address is now complete. Please note the address provided there, in this example http://feeds.feedburner.com/AkhmadDSembiringWeblog. We will use this address for the next steps and also this URL is the address that you should publish to your reader that are going to subscribe to your feed.

In this step we just click on “Skip directly to feed management” link. Later, we can add additional statistics features to this feed. You will be redirected to this confirmation page:

Click on “My Feed” link, and click the title of your new feed, then a page like this will appear.

You are done! Your FeedBurner is now ready for publishing. If you post a new article on your web or blog, FeedBurner will read it and republish it using the new FeedBurner address above.

Setup Google AdSense

Next thing to do is to setup an Adsense for feed. Log in to your Google AdSense account, and click on AdSense Setup tab then ”Get Ads” link. Click on “AdSense for Feeds” link.

Next, you need to configure a FeedBurner feed to be attached with AdSense for feed.

On the page that appears, specify the ad type, size, frequency, layout and color by selecting on the appropriate fields. You could optionally set the channel for later analytic purpose.

The most important part is to set the feed. Google AdSense automatically detects whether we have already set any FeedBurner feed before or not, and if you did, it will appear in the “Feed” selection like the above example, if it has not have an ad unit attached.

Just click the “Save” button and you are done!

Please wait for about 10 minutes, and then check your Feedburner feed address by entering the feed URL in browser. For example, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AkhmadDSembiringWeblog.

As you can see, now each feed entry will be attached with one AdSense advertisement. If your readers click the ads then you will get your AdSense revenue.

In addition, you are now able to provide your reader many kind on subscription channel like email, XML, My Yahoo, Google, My AOL, newsgator, netvibes, etc.

Setup WordPress Plugin

Last step it to redirect all traffic to your original feed address to your FeedBurner feed address. For example if your original feed address was http://akhdaniel.wordpress.com/feed. Then you need to redirect it to your Feedburner feed address like http://feeds.feedburner.com/AkhmadDSembiringWeblog.

This can be done in several ways: editing .htaccess file, editing some code in WordPress program, and installing a plugin. We will choose the easiest one: using the plugin. Here we use the FD Feedburner plugin by John Watson at http://flagrantdisregard.com/feedburner/.

After installing the plugin at the WordPress Administration page, go to the plugin setting page, which is quite simple.

You just need to enter your FeedBurner feed address and click Save button. That’s it.

Now, all traffics that directed to your original feed address will be redirected by the plugin to your FeedBurner feed address. This including all existing links to the original feed on the theme files, so you don’t need to do anything with the theme files nor the .htaccess file.

The feed content will be the same with the original since FeedBurner checks the original feed regularly, but this time it’s attached with AdSense advertisement and you can track your reader statistics, manage subscriptions, reporting for analytic purpose, and much more.