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Find Missing Children From Your Website

Help Out the Amber Alert System

From , former About.com Guide

The Amber Alert system was created several years ago to help find children in cases where the child has been kidnapped by a stranger or when the child has been abducted, and it's felt that the child is in danger. Whenever a child is abducted the Amber Alert system is put into effect. All over the area where the child was abducted, there are signs and banners flashing with the Amber Alert message on them.

How You Can Help CodeAmber.org

Now you can help find missing children using your website. CodeAmber.org has an Amber Alert ticker that you add to your web pages. Then when there's an Amber Alert issued, your readers will see the CodeAmber.org alert and be notified so they can help find the missing child too. The more people notified with CodeAmber.org, the better chance there is of finding an abducted child.

Add the CodeAmber.org Ticker Code

  1. Go to the CodeAmber.org ticker sign up page.

  2. Scroll down to the "website" sign up section of the CodeAmber.org page.

  3. Choose your CodeAmber.org ticker type. You can choose a long ticker or a short ticker for your web page. Choose a U.S. CodeAmber.org ticker or a Canadian CodeAmber.org ticker.

  4. Enter your name and email address in the boxes and click "Get The Ticker Code Now!"

  5. Go to your email. There should be a message from CodeAmber.org. Open the email and copy the code CodeAmber.org sent you.

  6. Go to your webpage and enter the CodeAmber.org code into the HTML wherever you want the CodeAmber.org ticket to show on your page.

  7. That's it! Now you can help find missing children with CodeAmber.org.

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