Syndicating Articles with DynAds

Are you writing articles for publishing on other websites? Do you have content that you want to share with your partners? Do you want to keep view statistics of your articles?

Being an efficient content delivery script, and having so many different content display modes, DynAds can help you to implement a syndication strategy that suits your needs. You can serve the contents from your server and display them on partner sites as if the content was belong to your partners in the look and feel of their sites. In this article, you will find many different methods for displaying your one page or multi-page articles on partner sites.

Syndication of Single Page Articles

Preparing the article: Write your article in your favorite text or html editor. DynAds can deliver any content to the requesting browser. So you can format your article with html and css tags.

If you want to give the the control of the appearance of your article to your partners, then write your article in generic html without formatting the document. Then, your partner can define the necessary CSS for the html tags to format and change the appearance of the article to match it to the page it is on.

Then, create a category in DynAds admin panel for your article(s) and create an ad under that category to define your article. Copy and paste your article source code to the "Header HTML" field of the ad. Do not include any <HTML>, <HEAD> or <BODY> tags in your article. Set other parameters as you like. Then, create an ad group for the delivery of the article and put the article ad into the ad group. If you like to rotate articles instead of displaying a single one, you can put more than one articles into the same ad group just like you would do for rotating ads.

Now, your article is ready for distribution.

Syndicating the article: Obtain the html code snippet from DynAds admin panel to distribute to your partners. If you like, you can assign a different display position name for each of your partners to distinguish the impressions and clicks from different sites. Ask your partner to place the code to their page(s) to display the article. Then, whenever someone visits that page of your partner's site, your article will be displayed on that page as if it was the content of your partner.

DynAds allows you and your partners to choose different display methods. If your partner is using PHP or Perl to generate the pages, then you can distribute a PHP or Perl code to access your article at the server side (SSI can not be used for remote sites). If your partner is using static html pages, then you can distribute java script paste code to access your article. If your partner prefers to display your articles in a frame or inline frame, you can supply them the corresponding code snippets. If you are talented to write your own article display code in java script or dhtml, then you can distribute your own code with the DynAds java script pre-loading code. In short, with DynAds you can implement almost any article display strategy.

If you want to change the article on the partner websites from time to time without changing the codes distributed to your partners, then simply change the ad reference in the ad group to another ad containing a new article. This will, automatically, display your new article on the partner websites.

Syndication of Multi-Page Articles

Now assume that your articles have more than one pages. A problem arise when you want to put next page and previous page links in your articles. This is because you do not know the the address of the page that will display the next or previous page.

DynAds provides several alternative methods to handle this difficulty.

Preparing the article pages: Prepare each page of your article as a separate single article and put each of them in separate ads. Create an ad group for the article, and put the ads containing the article pages into the ad group in the page order. This will place the first page to index 0 (zero), and the second page to index 1 (one) etc...

Syndicating the article pages:

True multi-page article displaying:
In this method, you distribute a java script code to display your article pages. Your partner puts the java script code on a single page on his/her website. In addition, you put a simple url template into your article pages to display links to the article pages. No other action is necessary for both parties. The script automatically displays, the correct article page on the same page.
This is the java script code to distribute to your partners:
<SCRIPT language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">  </script> <SCRIPT language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">  </script>
Here is the format of the url link template to place into your article page to link to the other article pages:
```
<A HREF="ArticlePageLinkxx">page-xx</a>
```
xx is the index of the article page to be linked to, in the ad group (0, zero, for the first page). For example to link to the 3th page of your article from any article page, embed this code to your article
```
<A HREF="ArticlePageLink2">page-3</a>
```
Pre-load the article pages to the browser:
You can distribute a javascript code to your partners, which loads all of the pages of your article into the browser and then displays individual pages as requested. With this method, each page of your article is displayed instantly without refreshing the page its is displayed. In addition, you do not have to put any page links into your article pages. You can find a small scale implementation of this concept in this demo page.
Displaying the pages as separate articles:
Do not put any page links in your articles. Instead inform your partners about the number of pages in the article and supply the necessary access codes for each of the pages. Then your partner will prepare a separate page for each of your article pages, and he/she will put the necessary page links on every the website page that displays the article pages.
Then you do not have to deal with the page management, but your partners need to manage it. In addition, your partners can use server side or browser side access codes to display the pages as in the single page articles. However, when you want to change the number of pages of the article, you have to inform your partners to change the pages.
Frame and inline frame displaying:
Ask your partners to display you article in a frame or inline frame. Then, supply them with the html code to display the first page of the article in the frame. Put the page links in your article pages to point your site like,
Url of the first page:
http://YourDomain/DynAdsPath/ad.pl?pos=PartnerSite&agn=ArticleAdGroup&dsp=frm&sel=seq&ano=0
Url of the second page:
http://YourDomain/DynAdsPath/ad.pl?pos=PartnerSite&agn=ArticleAdGroup&dsp=frm&sel=seq&ano=1 and so on. Then, your pages will be displayed in the frames.
The down side of this method is the fact that your partner can not customize the look of your article.