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Google Kills AdSense for Feeds
Google, on Friday 28 September 2012, announced they are doing more “spring cleaning” of little used products and services.
Here are the products and services which are closing:
- AdSense for Feeds is retired on October 2, 2012 and by December 3, 2012, it will completely stop working.
- Custom Home page backgrounds are going away next month and on October 16th you won’t be able to upload new images. The service will be turned off in November 2012.
- Google storage in Picasa and Drive will be consolidated over the next few months, so users will have five GB of free storage across both services. If you’re paying for storage, your free storage will now be counted towards your total. So if you buy a 100GB plan, it will give you 100GB of total storage instead of adding to what you already had.
- Google News Badges is going away completely on October 15th.
- Google News “Recommended Sections” is also going away on October 15th.
- +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools is also going away on November 14th.
I’m particularly sorry to see AdSense for Feeds go and considering they wrote on the Official Google Blog, “AdSense for Feeds is designed to help publishers earn revenue from their content by placing ads on their RSS feeds”, I guess they think we’re not earning enough money from RSS?
Here’s the email they sent out…
Hi,
We’re contacting you because you’ve enabled AdSense for feeds in your AdSense account. After carefully evaluating the product, we’ve decided to retire AdSense for feeds.
Starting December 3, 2012, we’ll discontinue serving ads via AdSense for feeds on RSS feeds and you’ll no longer see feed units in your My ads tab. To check if you’re currently generating any revenue from AdSense for feeds, visit your “Products” performance report and look for recent data for “AdSense for feeds”.
Please note that reporting on your feed ad units will remain available following the product retirement. FeedBurner URLs powered by Google will continue to function, but will no longer serve ads. As a result, it won’t be necessary to redirect your subscribers to different URLs or to take any other action in your account. For more details please visit the AdSense Help Center.
Rest assured, this upcoming change won’t affect the availability of other AdSense products that you’re currently using.
We appreciate your understanding and thank you for your patience as we continue to develop new features and offerings within AdSense.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Google Kills AdSense for Feeds Conclusion
Oh well, all good (and Google) things come to an end at sometime or other. Lets just hope better things are on the horizon. See you soon.
