
< Back to Publisher Home Welcome to the ZapTXT Publisher Program Sounds like a plan! How do I get started? Select a treatment that works for you for each monitoring option, add the code to your site and you're good to go. To enable notifications via IM, Skype, Email or Mobile Device when you post new articles use one of these: Option 1 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." border="0" src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z-get-notified.gif" /></a> Option 2 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/zaptxtpublic/images/zt-145x28.gif" /></a> Option 3 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." border="0" src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/btn_zaptxt_2.png" /></a> To enable notifications via IM, Skype, Email or Mobile Device when new comments appear for each article or blog post, use one of these: Option 1 Monitor comments with ZapTXT <div style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"><a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('http://yourfeedhere.com/feed/'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z.gif" border="0" alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." class="imgbtn" /></div><div style="float:left;">Monitor comments with ZapTXT</div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div> Option 2 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('http://yourfeedhere.com/feed/'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z.gif" border="0" alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." /></a> Option 3 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('http://yourfeedhere.com/feed/'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z-monitor-comments.gif" border="0" alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." /></a> For Wordpress Blog: <?php echo "<a onclick=\"window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('".get_permalink()."'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;\" title=\"Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear.\" accesskey=\"Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear.\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z-monitor-comments.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear.\" /></a>"; ?> If you would like to participate in our beta program that provides you with usage statistics on your content, please drop us a line at using your email address listed listed on your blog. Have Questions? Need Help? We have answers. Drop us a line at Increase your readership and engage with your audience Increase your readership. By using the ZapTXT notification platform via the ZapTXT buttons (see right panel) on your website your readers can be notified whenever you update your site or topics of interest show up or when new comments are added. Better still, they don't need an RSS reader to view it: a ZapTXT alert can be sent via email, Instant Messenger, Skype or SMS text. Engage your readers. By providing your readers with a better way to know what you're publishing, you can develop a closer relationship with them. ZapTXT can monitor any RSS-enabled feed, including comments, so you can ensure your readers are engaged on the topics that interest them for as long as the conversation on that topic continues. Measure usage. ZapTXT exposes its usage for a given site to Feedburner so you can always see how many users are monitoring your site via our service. Understand your readers. Contact us ( ) and we'll gladly send you monthly statistics. ZapTXT can tell you: What searches were done on your content, in aggregate. How many times user-defined searches matched your editorial content. What types of content are so important to some readers that they've elected to receive a TXT message alert whenever it is mentioned on your site - in your posts and even in comments made by other readers. We plan to have an automated system for this very soon. How it works If you publish a blog or an RSS-enabled website, just add the ZapTXT buttons to your site. Your readers use one of our opt-in notification mechanisms to stay abreast of site updates. We send them an alert when we find a match. They receive a Headline and a Link back to your site to consume the article or blog post. Sounds great! Any gotchas? If you use Word Press, Typepad or Blogger as your blog software, no restrictions. Add the code and you're good to go. If you have a custom built blog, you may need to check a few things: Make sure you have a valid feed by visiting feedvalidator.org. Your feed needs to have a date and time element so we know if a post you wrote is new, to trigger an alert. You need to have RSS auto discovery enabled.

Welcome to the ZapTXT Publisher Program

Sounds like a plan! How do I get started?

Select a treatment that works for you for each monitoring option, add the code to your site and you're good to go.

To enable notifications via IM, Skype, Email or Mobile Device when you post new articles use one of these:

Option 1 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." border="0" src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z-get-notified.gif" /></a>
Option 2 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/zaptxtpublic/images/zt-145x28.gif" /></a>
Option 3 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new content is published on this site." border="0" src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/btn_zaptxt_2.png" /></a>

To enable notifications via IM, Skype, Email or Mobile Device when new comments appear for each article or blog post, use one of these:

Option 1
Monitor comments with ZapTXT
<div style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"><a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('http://yourfeedhere.com/feed/'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z.gif" border="0" alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." class="imgbtn" /></div><div style="float:left;">Monitor comments with ZapTXT</div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div>
Option 2 <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('http://yourfeedhere.com/feed/'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z.gif" border="0" alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." /></a>
Option 3
<a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('http://yourfeedhere.com/feed/'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;"><img src="http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z-monitor-comments.gif" border="0" alt="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." title="Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear." /></a> For Wordpress Blog: <?php echo "<a onclick=\"window.open('http://www.zaptxt.com/mytasks/discover_feed?feed='+encodeURIComponent('".get_permalink()."'),'ZapTXT','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes, resizable=yes');return false;\" title=\"Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear.\" accesskey=\"Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear.\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://www.zaptxt.com/themes/zaptxt/images/z-monitor-comments.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Receive IM, Email or Mobile alerts when new comments for this post appear.\" /></a>"; ?>

If you would like to participate in our beta program that provides you with usage statistics on your content, please drop us a line at using your email address listed listed on your blog.

Have Questions? Need Help?

We have answers.
Drop us a line at

Increase your readership and engage with your audience

Increase your readership. By using the ZapTXT notification platform via the ZapTXT buttons (see right panel) on your website your readers can be notified whenever you update your site or topics of interest show up or when new comments are added. Better still, they don't need an RSS reader to view it: a ZapTXT alert can be sent via email, Instant Messenger, Skype or SMS text.

Engage your readers. By providing your readers with a better way to know what you're publishing, you can develop a closer relationship with them. ZapTXT can monitor any RSS-enabled feed, including comments, so you can ensure your readers are engaged on the topics that interest them for as long as the conversation on that topic continues.

Measure usage. ZapTXT exposes its usage for a given site to Feedburner so you can always see how many users are monitoring your site via our service.

Understand your readers. Contact us ( ) and we'll gladly send you monthly statistics. ZapTXT can tell you:

What searches were done on your content, in aggregate.
How many times user-defined searches matched your editorial content.
What types of content are so important to some readers that they've elected to receive a TXT message alert whenever it is mentioned on your site - in your posts and even in comments made by other readers.

We plan to have an automated system for this very soon.

How it works

If you publish a blog or an RSS-enabled website, just add the ZapTXT buttons to your site.
Your readers use one of our opt-in notification mechanisms to stay abreast of site updates.
We send them an alert when we find a match. They receive a Headline and a Link back to your site to consume the article or blog post.

Sounds great! Any gotchas?

If you use Word Press, Typepad or Blogger as your blog software, no restrictions. Add the code and you're good to go.
If you have a custom built blog, you may need to check a few things:

Make sure you have a valid feed by visiting feedvalidator.org.
Your feed needs to have a date and time element so we know if a post you wrote is new, to trigger an alert.
You need to have RSS auto discovery enabled.