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Article Syndication - A New Vehicle for King Content
Article Syndication - A New Vehicle
for King Content
By S. Housley
Creating Content
New websites are being launched daily. In order to compete,
webmasters need to find alternative ways of producing
themed websites. Highly focused articles are often sought
by wembasters. Why? Because content on the web is still
king! In order to attract search engines and site visitors,
webmasters rely heavily on providing new, innovative
and fresh content. If the web site content is rich,
visitors will come. If the website content is updated
regularly, visitors will return. When evaluating a website's
traffic it is easy to see that the low cost of syndicated
content can increase a website's value. Sites that contain
multiple pages related to a specific topic increase
the likelihood of being 'found' when a variety of search
phrases are used for that topic.
By creating a niche resource, webmasters
are viewed as industry experts and their websites are
more likely to receive incoming directory links. A number
of publishers provide free content, the only stipulation
being that the webmaster serving the content must include
the author resource box. Webmasters utilizing free content
can easily create portals teeming with themed content.
Unlocking the Key to RSS
Many webmasters are struggling to find fresh, innovative
content while other savvy webmasters have realized the
potential hidden within RSS and are adopting the technology
at a maddening pace. By utilizing RSS, webmasters can
tap numerous free content sources with very little effort.
RSS truly is a webmaster's key to free content.
Webmasters interested in taking advantage of RSS have
a number of resources available to them:
GoArticles is a free content article directory with
more than 20,000 articles available for syndication.
Recently GoArticles added a feature that will allow
webmasters and site owners to add dynamically updated
article headlines to their sites by simply adding a
single line of java script into their webpage. More
than 100 articles are added daily to GoArticles. The
content is refreshed and indexed every 3 hours, so new
articles are updated on the site 8 times a day. Webmasters
looking for content can include theme-based RSS feeds
into their site, using java script supplied by GoArticles.
The java script accesses an RSS feed that contains the
article headlines on the GoArticles site.
GoArticles has 64 article categories, making it easy
for webmasters to find content that suits their interest.
Webmasters can select either the most recent articles
in a specific category or the most popular articles
in a specific category. As new articles are added to
the GoArticles directory, the content on the websites
using the java script will dynamically update.
Additional details at: http://www.goarticles.com
Example of a site using GoArticle's feed - http://www.small-business-software.net/goa-seo-headlines.htm
Another article resource webmasters may
find useful is Article Central's tracker script. Webmasters
can easily insert java script into their website to
list all of Article Central's new articles or site owners
can customize the tracker code to list only those articles
chosen from the article repository's article category
list. Articles relate to web development, design and
technology-related issues and are updated daily.
Additional details at: http://thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/tracker.asp
Example of a site using Article Central's feed - - http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/articledirectory-headlines.htm
Content syndication is a win-win for both the publisher
and the webmaster. As a result of these new distribution
opportunities provided by GoArticles and Article Central,
publishers will receive increasingly more exposure for
their articles and webmasters will have a new source
for fresh content.
Webmasters interested in creating dynamic content from
other free sources can use the free service provided
by Feed2JS. All webmasters need to do in order to display
the RSS feed on a website is enter the URL of the RSS
source. Feed2JS creates java script that can be inserted
into the HTML of the site owner's webpage. Webmasters
are also given control over how their content is served,
meaning they can customize the look and appearance of
the headlines.
Additional details at: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php?s=build
Example of site using Feed2JS - http://www.feedforall.com/rss2java-rssblog.htm
Search engines are increasingly looking for theme-based
portals by having specific targeted content where Webmasters
are likely to be defined as industry experts. RSS is
a free and easy way to promote a site and its content
without the need to advertise. RSS is defined specifically
for syndication; in fact the acronym RSS stands for
Really Simple Syndication. This means that webmasters
serving RSS content do not need to negotiate complicated
content sharing partnerships in order to use content
contained within an RSS feed.
In order to completely understand the power and potential
of RSS, webmasters may want to visit the following resources:
RSS Specifications - everything you need to know about
RSS - http://www.rss-specifications.com
Feedster - locate RSS feeds that are topic specific
http://www.feedster.com
FeedForAll - create RSS feeds from your own content
http://www.feedforall.com
RSS4U - free online RSS reader http://www.rss4u.com
FeedDemon - desktop RSS reader - http://www.feeddemon.com
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for the NotePage http://www.notepage.net
and FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com
product lines. Other sites by Sharon can be found at
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com
, and http://www.small-business-software.net
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