Getting content for your site |
Ever stared at a blank page without any content? Doesn't it look strange? It does. The reason why surfers come to your site whether personal or corporate, is primarily for the content that is displayed there. |
There are different methods to get content for your
site. You can setup your own team, but it can prove expensive for you. You can also source it from a third party content providers or syndication agencies such as
Reuters, Bridge or Isyndicate. Out of these, Reuters & Bridge are paid services while Isyndicate is a free content
provider. I am giving a list of some of free content providers for you.![]() |
http://www.isyndicate.com It is the most famous service on the web in case of syndication, especially for news content. Its content catagories include news, weather, stock quotes, comics, business & finance, travel & leisure, business & technology etc. ![]() |
http://certificate.net/wwio This is another content powerhouse. The speciality of this service is that this service syndicates features on varied topics such as business, technology, religion, sports & travel among others. The biggest advantage of this service is that you can post content on your own server with author credits & kink back to the web site. ![]() |
http://www.newsindex.com It is one of the most comprehensive news-based search engines on the web. The engine allows you to choose from not only the type of ticker you want to display but also lets you select the parameters under a particular catagory of news. You can also select the companies whose information you want to display. The ticker is in the form of a JAVA applet, so all you have to do is paste the code generated by the site on your page & that's all. ![]() |
http://www.screamingmedia.com The site is a major content supplier supplying content to more than 1,100 subscribers including MSN. The site offers 4 types of syndication services:- a) Custom Edition, which provides real time News & Photos. b) News Stand, which packages news under different catagories & updates automatically. c) Content Tool Kit, Which provides for utility content such as stock quotes & weather. d) Content Direct, that gives direct feeds from a variety of brand names. The site also offers Screaming wireless, which offers wireless content for consumers having mobile phones & PDA's. ![]() |
NEWS HEADLINES:- You have plenty of sources to choose from if you are looking for News. But the biggest advantage with these feeds is that only headlines are displayed on your site & the full information resides on the content provider's servers, which decreases the traffic to your Web-site. ![]() |
http://www.moreover.com It is a great content aggregator,& provides "web feeds" in more than 334 catagories. You have a choice of 12 formats such as HTML frames, XML, Flash, e-mail etc. to integrate your web feeds. ![]() |
http://www.7am.com It is a news breaking service, news being delivered through an easy to install news ticker. It is reputed for breaking news on the Web just like CNN on television. Some of the popular catagories that are syndicated are:- a) Worldnews, consisting of news & current affair stories from whole world except US. b) Worldnetnews, consisting of news & stories about Internet Industry around the world. c) Investornews,which consists of news on economic, legal, managerial & investment information from whole world. ![]() |
http://webreference.com/headlines/nh The service is operated by Internet.com & covers 20 news catagories such as Internet, e-commerce, finance, web-development etc. You can choose from a variety of formats such as Perl & Perl/DHTML. ![]() |
Tips & Cartoon Strips:- http://www.cybertip.net/applet The site features tips in 20 catagories to choose from. Some of the catagories include tips on Health, Beauty & Investment etc. After selecting the catagory, you can include the HTML code in your pages which are updated automatically every day by way of an applet. ![]() |
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/art/truesellsheet.html Arnold Roth cartoons can be added to your Web-site by including 2 lines of HTML code.The cartoonist requests a link back to Arnie's home page & that his cartoons should not be displayed along with cartoons from somebody else's page. ![]() |