You want to know how to get traffic to your sites? Well if you haven't signed up for Hubpages yet, I recommend you start here then get back to me. To find this page easily, go over to the right of the page in the grayish colored side bar and look for something that says, "bookmark this hub". Then you can come back to this after you have written a couple hubs and linked them together. (See Hubpages Backlinking for Dummies) . Then we can proceed on getting you some more traffic.

-Page update "RSS Feeds and Hubpages RSS Widget"-

Use as many networking sites as you can. It is so much easier then it looks... do you need all the details? If you do you came to the wrong place but if you just want to get it done and get on with increasing traffic and money, you found the right Hubpages Dummy!

Let's get started.

1. Open up a new browser if your operating system allows it. For PC people using Internet Explorer I suggest upgrading to Mozilla Firefox, if you haven't already, this will make back linking and networking so much easier.

2. Go to your account and open up one of your hubs.

3. Scroll down to the green "Share It" and click that. Then you will have a box that looks like this show up.

To be honest, I don't know what all the hype is about Twitter. I use it because it is easy to get my hubs and other sites published through one link.

So, click on the Twitter button. Sign up then scroll all the way down to the bottom of your home page. At the bottom you will see something that says "Goodies". Click that, then click on the first. Then it will bring you to a page that says, "widgets" or "Applications", pick "Applications", Twitter Widget you want to use looks like this and click on it.

Don't worry about Facebook or Blogger yet and I will tell you why in a minute. So after you have chosen the myspace application, pick the size and texture you want for you site, copy the HTML code and paste it into your MySpace account under:

1. edit profile
2. interest
3. general or which ever heading you want to put it under.
4. save.
   

Viola! Now you have networked Hubpages through Twitter onto MySpace in one step.

Now you can click the green "Share it" button, click Twitter, the URL for you hub will automatically be posted into to your Twitter feed, hit "update" and you done.

Facebook is the easiest to publish to. Just sign up. Now every time you click the share it to Facebook button, it will automatically publish to facebook and all you have to do it is pick a thumbnail icon, and click share and your are done!

Woo hoo! Now you have just published to 3 Networking sites. See, I told ya, easy. These ones look nice too. Plus you will find a lot of hubbers on facebook. So when you get there look for some friends and look for Sandra Rinck and add to friends. From there, there a whole bunch of Hubbers will show up in the same network that you can add to your profile. This is good for you because one of the things that makes HubPages so awesome is the people in the community.

They will probably be the first to read your work, and the more people that click on your hubs to read, the better off you will be in the long run getting a good place in a Google search.

Okay now do Blogger. Blogger is oober easy to do too! When you sign up for your Google Affiliate account, sign into your account located on the top right corner of the Google Homepage (if you have Google set as your home page that is).

And set up a Blogger account. Don't worry this is free too! After you have picked a template and a name for your blog spot, go back to the HTML code you got off of Twitter and follow these steps to first get your twitter feed into the widget section. Twitter has a separate app. for Blogger but I don't like it. It doesn't look very pretty.

1. go to layout
2. go to HTML/Java Script
3. paste Twitter/Myspace HTML code in the box and save it.
   

When you go back to look at the page, you will probably notice that the widget is too big for the side bar. That is okay.

Open up the same box you just pasted the HTML code in and look for something in the code that looks like width="300" and height="350" and change the size of the widget. On mine I only changed the width to "250", and at the bottom of the code you may need to change the width to 250 also.

Anyways, if you mess up just cut out the whole code and do it again. But you shouldn't have a problem with it. If you are wondering why I chose to use the twitter/myspace app. on Blogger instead of the Blogger one, it is because the Blogger one looks like a regular RSS Feed, not very eye catching.

Now, two things will happen. When you share it through twitter it will end up on your blog spot in the widget. But what I like about doing it this way is that if I have something random I want to share, I can copy the link through twitter and it will be there but if I have a something that I only want to show on Blogger, then I have the option of just using the share it to Blogger button and it shows up automatically on your site.

Plus, I discovered that when you do it this way and are using adsense on your blogger account, you get better ads!

Do the same for them too. On these two site you have to do a little bit more. After you share it, they will ask for a category but it's pretty easy to figure out so you shouldn't have a problem.

Now, if you have your own websites you want to promote as well, you can set up an RSS feed into your websites and share this as well through Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Blogger, Myspace and Digg. However I recommend using the Twitter app. on your external sites because it is a quick feed and works great, it stands out.

Hope this was easy to understand and helpful. Good luck! Well, you don't need luck if you just do it the Sandy way. :D

An RSS feed stands for "really simple syndication". It's a way to update my hubs with out having to come back and update a link capsule. You can use an RSS feed for a few different reasons.

• I subscribe to hubbers RSS feeds so that I can keep updated on the hubbers new pages that I am interested in. For example. I was reading a series that Anjalichugh was writing on Astral Projections. It was a series that I really enjoyed reading and wanted to keep updated. After a while of being on hubpages, most hubbers turn off their email notifications because they tend to overflow your email account so I was missing the new hubs from the authors I was really interested in at the time. So to counter this problem I started subscribing to their feeds.
• If you are using igoogle, it should ask you if you want to add it to your homepage. Then you can have updates like you would for a news feed like CNN.
  
• I use the feeds on external web addresses so I don't have to go back to every website and add the new hub every time I write one.
  

Using and RSS feed is really, really simple. To add your RSS feed to your own hub like this one; all you have to do is right click on Subscribe to RSS feed, click "copy link location" and paste it into the RSS capsule where it asks for the URL.

Now every time you publish a new hub, all the hubs you are using a feed on are updated.

On your profile, it will say "subscribe to... widget" after you click on that you get this page. All you have to do here is select the url tracker you want to use, adjust the width and height to fit the external page you are using it on. Highlight the HTML code and paste it into where ever you want to use it on.

This widget cannot be used on hubpages but you can use it in blogger, your own websites, myspace etc... On hubpages you can only use the default feed.