Top Ways To Use Your RSS Feed To Promote Your Hubs

You may have noticed that on your profile page there is a link that says 'subscribe to (your) RSS feed'. This is a way that people who are interested in the hubs that you are making can get updates each time you create a new hub using a feed reader on their computer desktop. But it is also a valuable tool that you can use yourself to promote your hubs, get more traffic to them, and make more money for yourself.

With a few simple steps you rss feed can generate both direct traffic and valuable backlinks. All you have to do is to go to your profile page, click on the link yourself, and the url (internet address) that it takes you to will be what you submit to the sites listed below.

widgetbox.com is probably the most effective way that you can use to promote your rss feed. If you sign up for a free account then all you need to do is to click on 'make a widget' and then 'rss feed' and then submit the url for your hubpages feed to them and they will use it to create a widget - basically like a hubpages module that anyone can put on their website or blog to display for latest hubpages. You can then customize the colour, size and logo very easily.

If you have a website or blog yourself then you can add the widget they make for to your site to promote your new hubs to your visitors. Also widgetbox will promote your new widget to people who are looking for free content to add to their own websites, and you can even make your widget into an app for social networking sites like bebo. Using this free service is a great way to get free traffic and a free boost to the position of your hubs in search engine rankings, but if you want to go further you can also go 'pro' for a few dollars per month and add videos and other cool features to your widget to make it more appealing for people to add to their sites or social networkinng profile pages.

Feedburner.com is another free service, and although they don't do much to promote your feed themselves (other than send 'pings' to various places), they do provide some great tools for you to use. One useful feature of feedburner is that once you have given them your feed to 'burn' you can get then offer people the chance to get updates of your new hubs by email. If you have a website then you can just copy and paste a small piece of code into your site that feedburner will give you, and it will display a sign up box for people to opt in to get updates on what you are creating. You can also add google adsense to your feeds using this service to help you make money from it.

There are various websites out their that collect feeds from anyone who submits one to them, and displays all of the latest entries on a given topic on various category or tag pages. The list below are all places where you can add your feed for free. Don't expect a huge amount of traffic from them, but you should get some at least and you also get valuable backlinks for improving your position in search results.

http://www.daytimenews.com

http://www.feedagg.com

http://www.feedbomb.com

http://www.feedboy.com

http://www.feedest.com

http://www.jordomedia.com

http://www.jumptags.com

http://www.rss-feeds-submission.com

http://www.rssmad.com

http://www.rss-spider.com

http://www.syndic8.com

http://technorati.com

http://www.zimbio.com

Some of these sites also include social networking features such as these:

http://www.blogcatalog.com

http://www.mybloglog.com

http://www.fuelmyblog.com