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FeedBurner will be Integrated with Google Accounts; White Background to Follow

April 30th, 2008 at 9:09 PM (17 years ago) by Matt Freedman

FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google awhile ago, announced today that they would be beginning the integration of FeedBurner with Google Accounts. They said that in the coming weeks, “selected publishers” will be given the option to merge their FeedBurner account with their Google Account. I’ve yet to be presented with this option. 😛

They also mentioned that FeedBurner will start to be integrated into other Google Services, like AdSense. Also that “FeedBurner will start to look and feel more like a set of Google services”. Which can probably be interpreted as getting the “Google style”, a clean design with a lot of white and blue.

Hopefully, FeedBurner will start to be integrated with Google Analytics soon, as that would be extremely convenient. I wonder when the FeedBurner blog will be converted into a Blogger-hosted blog…

Update [April 30, 2008 at 9:18 PM]: I just went to the “Monetize” tab in my FeedBurner account, and saw that I can now associate my FeedBurner account with my AdSense account. Upon doing so, it now allows me to add AdSense advertisements into my Feed. Interesting.

Update 2 [April 30, 2008 at 10:18 PM]: The AdSense part currently only adds the ads to your actual blog (through the general FeedBurner site stat tracking/FeedFlare code), and not into your actual feed. A little deceiving…

2 Responses to “FeedBurner will be Integrated with Google Accounts; White Background to Follow”

  1. juliemarg
    juliemarg says:

    Do you think people would click on an ad while scanning a feed? It seems contrary if you’re reading feeds to save time

  2. Matt Freedman
    Matt Freedman says:

    Well, since FeedBurner already has an existing ad network, I would imagine some people do click on the ads. Some of the ads might also be based on impressions, so that would work.

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