Promote hubs in Feed
- Website Examinerposted 14 years ago
0 Anybody have any comments on Google Feedburner? Like what the heck is it for and is it any good as relates to HP?
This is such a cognitive disturbance for me
You see, long before RSS feeds started being used for spammy SEO, people like me used them for following bloggers and websites that we were interested in. We argued about the best RSS feed readers to use and spend countless hours trying to explain to other people that these were like "live bookmarks". I think Mozilla Firebird (that's what it was called then) was the first to offer RSS feed reading directly in the browser.
Feedburner was a company that offered add-on RSS feed services. Early on, most of us created our own RSS feeds, but Feedburner offered so much more flexibility that by 2006, many of us switched our feed management to them.
Sometime later, Google bought them. There were plenty of hiccups during that takeover.
Now, to answer your direct question: if you are only Hubbing, you don't need or care about Feedburner. If all you use is a CMS like Wordpress, you may not care much either as plugins will handle all that for you.
However, if you maintain your own website(s), submitting your feeds to Feedburner makes a lot of sense. It gives you centralized management, automatic format conversions, the ability to add advertising, and much, much more.
The FEED feature that gives you all the activity on HubPages is something I don't use. I don't pay attention to "all" the activity going on on HubPages.
I receive emails newletter of those who I follow who publish new hubs every morning. I use the "forum" frontpage thread to see what forums are active, because the "FEED" doesn't cover all of the forum threads.
But, now I understand what you are talking about.
Ok
I just didn't think it was good practice to share in this way it seems like self promotion with links to an already published hub . Lol Cagsil don't read my twitter I use Twaitter for all my hubs :p
I think most followers don't want to read - they want you to follow them in return. Like you I find it amusing that every time my hubber score gets to 99 or that magical dollar, especially if I make a few forum posts, I will get a few new followers. Checking their recent activity I find that they have just followed 10 or 20 others as well, all high hubber scores.
I realize that most of my output is not interesting to fellow hubbers (who wants to read sales hubs or how to hubs on how to do something they are not going to do?) and don't expect much in the way of followers. Nevertheless I seem to attract at least a few, as noted. There are, of course a few that actually seem to read my stuff - fellow DIY enthusiasts or someone that has found one of the few hubs more interesting to most hubbers, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
- Website Examinerposted 14 years ago0
- Website Examinerposted 14 years ago0
I occasionally post a link to one of my hubs in the feed, no one has complained yet. I suspect not many read the feed religiously
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