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Promote Your Blog While Earning Money with Splush

Posted by on 24th Jul 2009 Promote your blog 8 comments

Promote Your Blog While Earning Money with Splush.Are you looking for a great way to spread your blog content to the masses while also making money on your own blog? Then Splush might be a great tool for you. It’s a dynamic widget that displays any RSS feed(s) of your choice. It’s fully customizable and can also display audio files and videos as well as images.

There are four easy steps for setting up a new widget. First enter the site where the widget will be displayed and then enter a name, description and tags for your widget. You can then choose whether or not you’d like to monetize your widget. You can then choose an ads visibility rate; the default is 50%. Basically, this allows you to choose what percentage of sponsored feeds you’d like to show. Whatever you decide, the left over percentage will be dedicated to your friends’ feeds (which you will need to add).

Monetize your Splush widget.Next you can either add the RSS feeds manually that you’d like to display or, you can upload an OPML file. You can add a maximum of 50 feeds. Next either choose a theme or customize your widget manually (date format, width, colors, etc). That’s it, you’ll get the code to add to your blog. Your widget will look similar to what you see below.

Sample Splush widget preview.If you’re unhappy with your widget or need to change something, you can easily edit the settings. You can even block certain feeds in order to prevent them from ever showing up on your widget.

You can then track your widget in the “Feed Ads” area. You’ll be able to see how many clicks you receive and how much you earn from each click. Then in the “Friends” area you can see who has actually added your feed to their widget. Obviously the more people that add your feed to their widget, the more exposure you’ll get. Unfortunately, I’m not seeing a way for people to actually discover your feed. I’m guessing maybe it’s just by word of mouth for now.

Although I’m really liking the idea behind Splush, it kind of looks like a project that has been halted. I’m not sure how well it works but I do plan on giving it a try. If you have any experience with Splush or do try it out, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

Charnita is a full-time freelance writer and blogger with 3+ years of experience, and also the owner of SocialWebTools.info. She's also an early adopter who loves trying out new social media tools along with Web and iOS (iPad) apps. Feel free to connect with her on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

8 comments - Leave a reply
  • Posted by Bob on 24th Jul 2009

    It would seem to me like using adsense on your feeds would probably bring in more cash than this.

  • Posted by Wallace on 24th Jul 2009

    IMO it works only for the blogs that have a large based rss feed readers.

  • Posted by m4stono on 24th Jul 2009

    it's look like the feedburner animator, what's the different?

  • Posted by Liane | Blogging Tip on 24th Jul 2009

    Still in beta? I'll try to research more on the site, but helpful content. :)

  • Posted by Lee on 25th Jul 2009

    Hi,

    Nice information. You can share your posts at ArticlePinger.com. I am sure a lot of people will find it useful. :)

  • Posted by micheal on 25th Jul 2009

    before was facebook, there goes mybloglog, and then twitter. Now SPLUSH!! Thanks, I'm registering at it

  • Posted by Jugaadu on 26th Jul 2009

    i found this Product i.e. Splush a bit interesting, but I don't have a huge number of subscribers to my RSS subscriber,Will it be fruitful to me?

  • Posted by Microsoft Guy on 31st Jul 2009

    I wonder if Splush will be a big hit soon