Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. This could be simply by licensing the content so other people can use it, but more commonly these days web syndication refers to making Web feeds available from a site so other people can display an updating list of content from it (for example one's latest forum postings, etc.). This originated with news and blog site but is increasingly used to syndicate any information. For example, Dan Savage's Savage Love advice column is regularly syndicated.

Although the format could be HTML or JavaScript it is more commonly XML but there has been considerable discussion about the right format leading to RSS (for "Really Simple Syndication") having parallel versions and more recent attempts to produce a new Atom web syndication format and protocol.

LiveJournal offers an option to automatically syndicate external websites such as Neil Gaiman's blog.

See also:

• news aggregator
• Atom
• Creative Commons
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.x)
• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.9x/2.x)