I just received an email from BidVertiser a couple of days ago about their new service (still in BETA) which allows bloggers and website owners to make some money through their RSS and/or Atom Feeds. They call the program BidVertiser Ads for Feeds and it seems to me that they have built this new feature to compete directly with feedburner which has a very similar service.

Another thing that you need to keep in mind is that switching to this particular feed service seems to switch your feed link on your blog to a BidVertiser feed URL and I am simply not sure what would happen to your feedburner stats when you do that (would you lose your subscribers or would they all be migrated over automatically?). As a result, it looks like you would be better served picking only one of the service providers as opposed to using both.

If you are interested in testing this out you will need to open a publisher account with BidVertiser. For those of you using Wordpress you can find instructions on how to implement the new service on the BidVertiser website. They also have similar links for blogger and typepad.

Bidvertiser.com is an advertising broker that sells advertising space via auction. However, they also have a referral program that pays you for sending them new customers. Once you sign up as a publisher, they give you access to banners and text linked up to your referral code for tracking.

What I found interesting about Bidvertiser is the fact that they include two referral tracks: One for referring an advertiser and the other for referring a publisher. The publisher referral seems more lucrative, at least in the beginning, because they pay you $10 after that publisher makes their first $10 through Bidvertiser. However, does anyone know how long it’ll take for you to get those first $10 worth of clicks? If it is a new blog, it could take quite some time.

This is one reason I think their advertiser referral program is more attractive. The advertiser referral compensation structure credits your account only $5 but those $5 come after the first $10 of advertising is purchased. The logic here is that if you refer an advertiser, you know they are at least exploring the idea of buying advertising. If they sign up and like what they see, chances are they will spend at least $10 to try the service out to see if it delivers any results. Once that happens, you’ve made your $5.

If you decide to give it a try (from the advertiser OR publisher viewpoint), please tell me how it works out for you in the comments section.