Publisher Network: Technical Requirements

There are four technical requirements your site must satisfy to qualify for inclusion on NewsNow.

1. Employ distinct and unique URLs for every article

Make sure each article you publish has a distinct, or unique, URL. We recommend you insert the date or a unique number into the URL. Ideally, create a folder for each day and number the article pages within this folder sequentially. e.g. http://www.whoyouare.com/news/20061225/a-christmas-story1.html

2. Employ distinct and unique headlines for every article

Make sure each article you publish has a unique headline.

3. List your articles in an RSS feed, Atom feed, or dedicated headlines webpage

To reduce the load on your server and ensure we are continuously informed of the articles you publish in a timely manner, we require that you provide us with the address of a dedicated headline page for us to scan. This can be an RSS feed, an Atom feed, or a simple HTML page containing just headlines linking to articles.

If you don't already have an RSS or Atom feed, please use the following steps to set up a dedicated headline page for us to scan:

1. Create a dedicated headline web page for our spider to visit, e.g. http://www.whoyouare.com/NewsNow/
   For an example visit: http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/newsnow/newsnowdist.asp
2. Place on this page the headline-hyperlinks for all articles published, but ensure that the page references at least every article published within the last 24 hours but does not reference any article that is more than sixty days old.
3. Make sure the hyperlink text is exactly the headline text. This is the text we will display on NewsNow.co.uk.
4. Make sure the hyperlink URL links to precisely the web page containing the article in question.
5. Don't place any other links on this page as we instruct our software to harvest everything and this would cause erroneous headlines to appear on our website
6. As this page will only be scanned by our spider and not viewed by the public, please remember not to include any graphics or other design elements. This would only increase the load on your servers and ours.

As an example, your dedicated headline page should look something like this:

<a href="/news/20061225/shoppers1.html">Shoppers go mad for presents at Christmas shock</a>
<a href="/news/20061225/eatfood2.html">People eat food at Christmas shock</a>
<a href="/news/20061226/rubbish1.html">Rubbish disposal problem on Boxing Day shock</a>

4. Maximise your articles' exposure

To maximise the exposure your articles receive on NewsNow, our systems need to be able to read the text of each article you publish. To ensure they can properly identify where on the webpage the article begins and ends, please edit your website templates as follows:

1. <!-- Article Start -->

   should follow the headline but immediately precede the first paragraph of the article

2. <!-- Article End -->

   should immediately follow the last paragraph of the article.
3. If your articles contain a byline or specify an author:

   <!-- Author Start -->

   should immediately precede the author's name;
   

   <!-- Author End -->

   should immediately follow it.
   

If you don't or can't do this, don't worry, our systems will still read your headlines. But as headlines don't tell the whole story, please be aware the number of feeds into which we'll be able to file your articles will be reduced.

By clicking the following button, you confirm you have read and understood our Technical Requirements, and are satisfied that your publication adheres to them.