News-Antique.com launched last week and is the first news service online specifically designed to serve the antiques and collectibles trade and related organizations and services. The site will allow businesses, show promoters, auctioneers, appraisers, publishers, clubs, trade groups, authors and others to publish news stories related to antiques and collectibles.

There is no charge, and premium features include RSS (Really Simple Syndication), feeds to other Web sites, search engine optimization for each story submitted and a weekly synopsis of featured stories emailed directly to journalists and other subscribers once a week. The site also includes a tracking system that allows authors to see how may times each story they publish is viewed.

The new site will help businesses and other organization involved with antiques and collectibles get their message out to online readers and the media.

Journalists covering the trade can sign up for weekly email summaries of submitted stories. As new Featured stories are published, they appear "live" on the home page for quick review without having to navigate into the site.

"Our hope is that the new site can help businesses and organizations in the trade, get the word out to the media and the public about what they are doing," said Phillip Davies the editor of the new site. "Up until now, it was quite difficult in this business to get information out to the public efficiently. This new site is designed to change that."

http://www.news-antique.com