Using Feeds to Boost Blog Traffic
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Melody Rhodes
aka Athlyn Green is interested in alternative health, the paranormal, and avian behaviorism.
She's working on 7 books and has completed 2 children's stories. She freelances articles and writes web content.
By Melody Rhodes
Published on 02/27/2008
You can include a Feed in your Hubpages and point readers to your blog.
Are you using Feeds to full advantage? If not, you may be letting revenue slip under the table.
Are you using your Feeds to full advantage? Many people know what Feeds are but the thought of actually using or working with Feeds somehow slips through the cracks. How the heck do you get those nifty line-ups of your articles neatly embedded into your pages?
It's really not that difficult and well worth the effort.
For the sake of this discussion, we will examine how you can do this at your HubPages; however, you can use this information to include Feeds in other places.
You may have created a Group at HubPages because you have a number of articles discussing a particular subject. If so, great! You can now include a Feed that points to your blog (which discusses similar subject matter), thus giving readers additional articles/posts to read through AND sending traffic to your blog. Neat, eh?
Okay, let's visit my Hub, The Spirits of Roselane. Now, if you scroll down, you'll notice a grey box over on the right underneath the Amazon capsule for The Sixth Sense. You will see the name of my blog, Intuition and Psychic Ability and underneath, the titles of 8 articles from that blog. Clicking on any of the article links takes readers to that particular blog.
How to Add a Feed
So, how did I add that Feed? It's simple.
Now, your readers can easily locate additional information on a subject that interests them and you net the rewards of increased readership, subscribers, and income from any monetization you've incorporated into your blog.
We have the modern-day convenience of Feeds. It only make sense to make the most of them.
It's really not that difficult and well worth the effort.
For the sake of this discussion, we will examine how you can do this at your HubPages; however, you can use this information to include Feeds in other places.
You may have created a Group at HubPages because you have a number of articles discussing a particular subject. If so, great! You can now include a Feed that points to your blog (which discusses similar subject matter), thus giving readers additional articles/posts to read through AND sending traffic to your blog. Neat, eh?
Okay, let's visit my Hub, The Spirits of Roselane. Now, if you scroll down, you'll notice a grey box over on the right underneath the Amazon capsule for The Sixth Sense. You will see the name of my blog, Intuition and Psychic Ability and underneath, the titles of 8 articles from that blog. Clicking on any of the article links takes readers to that particular blog.
How to Add a Feed
So, how did I add that Feed? It's simple.
- You visit your blog, right-click on the orange Feed button, hit Properties, highlight the Feed URL and press Copy.
- At your Hub you click Edit, swing over to the right where it says: Add More Stuff, and click on the RSS Feed button.
- You then scroll to the bottom of your Hub and paste the Feed URL into the box, on the line that says: Feed URL.
- You go below that and select the number of article titles you want to show, where it says: Maximum number of items to display.
- You then add a Capsule Subtitle (the name of your blog) and you are done. You press save and publish your Hub.
Now, your readers can easily locate additional information on a subject that interests them and you net the rewards of increased readership, subscribers, and income from any monetization you've incorporated into your blog.
We have the modern-day convenience of Feeds. It only make sense to make the most of them.