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Let's take a look at the RSS feed on my squidoo.com/flowski web page and see how I use the RSS feed to promote some of my other websites. The Squidoo link will open in a new window, put the windows next to each other so you can read this page and look at my Squidoo website at the same time. Now scroll down the Squidoo page to the module titled "Go With The Flowski Photo MoBlog" my 3 most recently uploaded photos displayed, found it? Ok, this is what my Flickr gallery RSS feed looks like when installed on a webpage. Cool, isn't it? Were not done yet, now go down the page some more to the module titled "Flowski's SmugMug Website RSS Feed". This is what the feed looks like on a web page, remember it's automatically updated everytime I upload photos to the gallery, so the feed (link) is always fresh and changing. Now go down the page some more and look for the module containing my social bookmarking page RSS feed, called Flowski's del.icio.us and click on one of the links, notice that it takes you right to the page that I bookmarked not to my delicious home page. Scroll down some more and check out the RSS feed from Flowski's Flickr Flower Foto Gallery (say that three times fast!). And, a little farther down I have a module with the RSS feed from BoingBoing, a news service with quirky news snippets updated every half-hour.

How do I put a RSS feed on my website? It's really pretty simple. I'm going to walk you thru your first one. For an example were going to add the RSS from my www.flickr.com/photos/flowski Gallery to your MyYahoo Page or G-mail Homepage. You don't have one? Don't freak out! (just kidding) The principle is basically the same with all of the services, just apply the instructions here to your service or better yet sign up now for a free yahoo email account, you'll need one for your free Flickr Photo Gallery anyway. Now, sign in to your email and click on the MyYahoo button so your at your MyYahoo customized page. Open a new tab or window and head over to Flowski's Flickr go all the way past my photos to the bottom of the page. Do you see a little box with a "+ MY Y!" in it? Click on that button, you'll come to a yahoo webpage that shows you a sample of what the RSS feed will look like on your MY Yahoo page. Click on the yellow button in the top right hand corner of the page that reads "+ Add To My Yahoo!" and your done. Now was that so difficult? Go check your page out and see if it's there. Hey, did you happen to see the "Save to del.icio.us" button below the Yahoo button at the bottom of my Flickr gallery? Go check it out, see if you can find it. Click on it and bookmark my gallery at your new social bookmarking page. This is good practice and it'll get you used to bookmarking pages and tagging your posts.

Now that you understand how RSS feeds work, you should add the feed from your blog to your page, add your own flickr gallery feed, add the feed from your SmugMug Or Shutterfly Gallery to your personalized MY Yahoo page.
TIP: Invite your friends, family and website visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed. Think of each of your subscribers as a link to your website, The more links (subscribers) you get, the higher your page rank will be and the better your page rank is the more traffic your website will get!