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Hello,
Welcome to this week's edition of Etips.
As you probably know, Web-Source.net provides a syndication service that
enables webmasters to display content on their web site that is automatically
updated each week. This service not only provides webmasters with fresh content
for their site, but it also provides Web-Source.net with a steady stream
of traffic, as at the bottom of the content is a link to the site.
In this week's edition of Etips, I will be featuring an informative article
entitled, How to Syndicate Your Content, written by Rick Rouse. This
article provides you with an excellent way you can easily begin syndicating
your own content.
I hope you will enjoy the publication.
To your success!
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 How To Syndicate Your
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By
Rick Rouse Copyright
© 2004
Do you have regularly updating content
that you would like to make available to other websites? Perhaps a computer
tip of the day, a daily recipe, or even a daily cartoon?
Do you want to give your website more exposure, boost sales, enhance your
search engine rankings, or grow your newsletter subscriber list?
A fast and easy way to accomplish all of these goals is by using content
syndication. Content syndication is the simple process of making a block
of content (which usually changes on a regular basis) available for other
webmasters to use on their websites.
Sound complicated? Well, it isn't!
There are several ways to syndicate your content, but the easiest way by
far is to use a simple IFRAME (Inline Frame). Here is the HTML code for creating
your own content syndication IFRAME:
<iframe src="http://www.yoursite.com/content.html" width="150" height="300"
frameborder="1" scrolling="no">
</iframe>
<br>
Content courtesy of http://www.yoursite.com
To display your content on his/her web page, all the other webmaster has
to do is copy and paste this code into his/her web page in the place where
he/she wants your content to be displayed.
Instructions:
1 - Replace http://www.yoursite.com/content.html with the URL of the page
on your website that you wish to syndicate. Make sure this page contains
only the content itself along with any related HTML code such as bolding,
colors, etc. Do not include headers, footers, navigation, etc.
2 - The width and height attributes set the size of the IFRAME in pixels.
In the example above, the content would fit in the left-hand navigation column
of most websites.
You can change these attributes to any size you wish, but keep in mind that
the IFRAME must be large enough to accommodate your content. Also keep in
mind that the smaller your syndicated content, the easier it will be to find
webmasters who are willing to use it.
3 - The frameborder setting determines whether your content will be displayed
inside a box. The default setting is yes (1). If you change this setting
to 0, there will be no border, hence no box.
4 - Setting the scrolling attribute to "yes" will add scrollbars to the IFRAME.
This is useful if you wish to syndicate a long article while keeping the
IFRAME small.
5 - Change the URL in "Content courtesy of http://www.yoursite.com." to your
website's URL. This way visitors can click to visit your website if they
found your content useful.
I recommend making this line mandatory as a condition for using your content.
It will generate targeted traffic to your website and provide a valuable
backlink for search engine ranking purposes.
6 - Important: Copy and paste the code above into NotePad, then into your
HTML editor. This helps ensure proper formatting in your web page.
7 - Let other webmasters know you have content available for them to place
on their websites. You can place a link on your site that says: "Syndicate
our content!" or "Like this content? Place it on your website!"
You can also submit your content to the many "free content" websites that
are found on the web. Just do a Google search for "free content."
That's all there is to syndicating your content on other websites! Have
fun!
About the Author:
| Rick Rouse
is the author of the popular Webmaster SEO Toolkit, a free step-by step guide
to getting a top-10 ranking in Google, available at
http://www.rlrouse.com/SEO.html |
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When designing your web site,
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logo, images, navigational links and content area. Each time you need to
create a new page, open your template, add your content, and save it with
a different page name.
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