RSS Link Exchange
56The Opportunity: RSS Link Exchange
The Product: RSS Link Exchange Market
The RSS Link Exchange would simply work by creating an account at a central site and giving them the RSS feed for your site. The most recent item in the feed would be sucked up and placed in a combined feed from other sites in your category.
Publishers, bloggers, website owners would take a script that puts the RSS feed on their site. I think it should be a server side script, so the links are easily crawled, but it could be javascript as well. Everytime they displayed the feed on their site, they would earn a credit to have their feed displayed on another site.
The Business Model: Pay for Inclusion
People that wanted their feed to be displayed in the network, but didn't want to earn credits could pay a cpm to have their most recent item displayed in the feed. Since RSS feeds can have multiple items. Say 5 items in each impression, there would be plenty of inventory to sell. Even if each advertiser paid a 20 cent cpm. Four of the items could be paid, earning an eCPM of 80 cents.
*This is an area where I'd consider a personal investment.
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That sounds like a job for Deeds.
I wonder if a traffic exchange script would work?
Take a look a this - I have developed a RSS and Blog Exchange for clipping articles from various feeds.
I took a look at your aggregator. It stil needs the exchange piece. But, I think an RSS exchange could be a good lifestyle business for someone that is savvy enough to promote it.
I just launched a site yesterday that I originally intended to have work similar to what you describe. In the end, I decided to have it facilitate making 1-to-1 RSS feed exchanges instead ("you display my feed on your site and I'll display yours on mine"). That makes it easier to control quality, because you get to check the feed before you accept it, so people can't just join, post junk with the right keywords, and have it show up all over the internet. Click my name to see the site.
feedMashr says:
3 years ago
I like the idea of an rss feed exchange.