Syndicate and Embed Content Across the Web

Sometimes the easiest way to get your content on your website (or just on the web) is to use third party services. You can spend a lot of money (and time) creating websites in order to have cool custom functionality built into your online presence. Whether you need simple or complex online solutions many times there are third party platforms or applications that are a available. Take for instance Scribd, the topic of today’s blog.

Special thanks to my beautiful wife Sheryl for making today’s blog possible. Today is our 14th anniversary and she is letting me write this post.

Scribd is a free online service that allows you to create and embed a wide range of documents on your blog or website. Upload a variety of Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or PDF documents with a few clicks after signing up. The creation Scribd is simple, the embed is flawless. Take for instance the following document brought to you by someone named Matt Bowling. He was writing a computer science paper and created a short tutorial about using Scribd. As he found out, Scribd is simple to use.

How to use Scribd - Upload a Document to Scribd

There are quite a few benefits to using Scribd. First of all the content that you upload can appear in the search engines if your document is set to “public”. This enables your document to rank in the search engines for keywords and phrases surrounding a topic that you are interested in. Your content (and your branding) can be used to help inform people about a process, a skill, a site, and more. They have access to the source code which enables you to syndicate your content if the content is worth syndicating. It can be a way to pass your content around the web.

The content in your document can be parsed by the search engines. When you create a customized embed code under the advanced setting you have the option of also embedding the text of the document. As of right now the search engines don’t parse Flash based portions of a site. Be adding the text to your embed code you enable the search engines to parse the text in the Scribd file.There are tons of options and an unlimited amount of content that you are able to host on their servers. You can create unique url’s to display your documents pages too.

You also have the abilty to create and be a part of the community and many groups that are available. You can create, comment, and receive feedback on information that you are passionate about. There are many options and as a new user you will be kept quite busy exporing all of the ways that Scribd can help you.