A typical web feed logo

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. This could be simply by licensing the content so that other people can use it; however, in general, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts). Image File history File links Feed-icon. ... Image File history File links Feed-icon. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... It has been suggested that Licensing (strategic alliance) be merged into this article or section. ... For Atom and RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ... A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as emoticons. ...

Large scale web syndication of content started in 2001 when Miniclip freely syndicated online browser based interactive games to the masses. Today many different types of content is syndicated on the Internet. Millions of online publishers including newspapers, commercial web sites and blogs now publish their latest news headlines, product offers or blog postings in standard format news feed.

Syndication benefits both the websites providing information and the websites displaying it. For the receiving site, content syndication is an effective way of adding greater depth and immediacy of information to its pages, making it more attractive to users. For the transmitting site, syndication drives exposure across numerous online platforms. This generates new traffic for the transmitting site — making syndication a free and easy form of advertisement.

The prevalence of web syndication is also of note to online marketers, since web surfers are becoming increasingly wary of providing personal information for marketing materials (such as signing up for a newsletter) and expect the ability to subscribe to a feed instead. It has been suggested that Internet marketing be merged into this article or section. ... A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. ...

Although the format could be anything transported over HTTP, such as HTML or JavaScript, it is more commonly XML. The two main families of web syndication formats are RSS and Atom. HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporations and now the Mozilla Foundations implementation of the ECMAScript standard, a scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... For RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. ...

See also

• Atom (standard)
• RSS (file format)
• Web feed
• Article marketing

The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. ... For RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... For Atom and RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... How it works In its simplest form article marketing is a form of advertising where a business owner writes short articles related to their field of business and makes them freely available for distribution and publication to their marketplace. ...

Examples

• popurls.com - By Thomas Marban aggregates the most popular websites
• Content Spooling Network - exchanges content articles between websites
• List of nice articles RSS (Syndication).

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References