Developing syndicated content

Need to find good, non-RSS method for publishing it

[MatthewHSE]

I'm working on trying to develop some good syndicated content from my site. That is, I develop the content, and other sites will display it. I have a few goals in mind:

- Make our information available to more people,
- Attract more people to our site,
- Provide useful content to other webmasters,
- Acquire useful backlinks from the sites displaying our content.

Basically, I need a good way of allowing other webmasters to place a bit of code on their pages, which displays a few article headlines and a short description. I would update this periodically by editing a file on our server.

RSS and SSI are not options in this particular case. I could do it with a JavaScript using document.write, but I'm not sure if the SE's would follow JS links to our site (besides that it wouldn't work for non-JS browsers). I thought of using iframes, but that's subject to approximately the same objections as using JavaScript. So having eliminated all the obvious answers, are there any other methods of doing this?

Thanks,

Matthew

[drbrain]

What's wrong with RSS?

There are *many* free toolkits for nearly every language that can read an RSS feed and generate blurblets from it.