How does RSS feed work and how would you use it to promote your Hubs?
It is really beyond the scope of this forum to explain how RSS works. But I'll try. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Think of it as a newspaper that you subscribe to and eveytime there is new news, you get that update with a date and time stamp. A RSS feed is that update. There are two modes of operation. One is intenal to hub pages and the other is external.
The internal feed is where you can get a feed from someone elses hub page that will give you a feed their hub page has been updated. The external one will give you a feed when a website that you have subsribed to sends a feed to your hub page. For example, If you subscribe to the FDA RSS feed on nutrition, every time there is an update to that FDA page, you will get an update on your hub page that has that RSS link. Therefore you can keep your hub pages up to date and promote it with a RSS feed. To describe how to implement it requires a fairly lenghty procedure. I have a hub page that tells you how to do it, but I can't give you the link to my hub page. It's against the rules. But you can go to my hub pages and find it. I hope this gives you some insight into RSS.
by Mike Russo 13 years ago
I'm trying to understand RSS feeds. I think the capsule is a reader that aggreates feeds from other websites, but I'm not sure
by laswi 15 years ago
RSS is expanded as Really Simple Syndication and it is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.
by Chad Young 12 years ago
Should you promote your hub outside of hubpages to make income?Is just writing a hub good enough or should you promote it outside of hubpages to make adsense income? What are some of the ways to promote without spending money even if you don't own a blog?
by Jinesh07 13 years ago
HiI have been at HubPages for about a month now and I have written 6 Hubs, but I'm having trouble getting views. Any help or tips on how to get more views would be much appreciated! Here's a link to my profile so if you could read one and give me some feedback that would be really...
by Moe H 12 years ago
I am referring to the 12 character short URL associated with every hub. Have you ever used it? Do you use it often to promote your HubPages articles although it has no SEO value?
by Raymond D Choiniere 13 years ago
Hey Staff,Please get your moderation team on the same page. I am beginning to get PISSED OFF at their incompetence.Last time I checked, RSS Feeds are allowed to be ON hubs and must be relevant to the HUB.I am getting sick and tired of moderators telling me to DELETE specific links inside RSS Feeds,...
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