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Are you looking to grow brand awareness and website traffic, but don’t have the time to create your own online content? You should consider using Paper.li to create an online Daily Newspaper about your website topic. In this article we will review what Paper.li is, how it works, the benefits to using Paper.li, how to get your Paper.li newspaper noticed, crafting the perfect Paper.li newspaper, and a list of the top Paper.li newspapers.
Paper.li is a fairly new automated tool that allows users to create their own online newspaper. It’s a great way to provide relevant online content about the same topic as your website. Paper.li newspapers provide valuable information to your online community about a specific topic. Over time creating a daily newspaper that goes out to your online community will help drive more readers to your website. Website owners can use Paper.li to drive more traffic to their website.
Paper.li allows users to create their own online newspaper through links shared on Facebook and Twitter. Once set up Paper.li automatically collects links from within Facebook or Twitter, organizes them into an easy-to-read newspaper format, complete with imagery, headlines, and article descriptions. Subscribers receive their online newspaper each day filled with top stories around the same content topic as your website. It’s a great way for you to automatically aggregate online content relevant to your website topic and push it out to your online community.
On a daily basis a new paper.li newspaper is created around your topic. If you’re on Twitter, you can configure the system to tweet your Paper.li newspaper automatically. You can also promote your newspaper manually by promoting the URL on your social networks. For full integration we recommend that you embed your online daily newspaper into your website.
Paper.li offers many benefits to website owners interested in finding new Content Marketing ideas to help build brand awareness and increase website traffic. Below are a few of the benefits to using Paper.li:
Paper.li newspapers are easy to create and the benefits are numerous, so we definitely recommend that you consider creating a Paper.li newspaper around the same topic as your website. If you’d like to move forward in creating a Paper.li newspaper for your website follow the steps below to get started.
It’s that easy! You now have an automated content marketing tool to use every day for educating your online community on your website topic and for driving traffic back to your website. Before we let you go, let’s go through each of the different content options that you can use to construct your Paper.li newspaper. We will discuss why you might want to use each different content option.
Getting your Paper.li newspaper noticed by relevant readers is the key to attracting subscribers. It’s important that you use all available marketing channels to help you promote your Paper.li newspaper. Here are a few creative ways to get your newspaper in front of the right people:
Obviously you might not have time to do all of these things every day, but find a combination that works well for you and your audience and stick to it as best as possible. The more you promote your Paper.li newspaper the more subscribers you will attract.
At first glance it might appear that crafting a Paper.li newspaper is a fairly standard process whereby you don’t have to put much thought into it. Unfortunately too many Paper.li editors go this route. The Paper.li editors who are successful are the ones who take some extra time to craft the perfect Paper.li newspaper. Here are a few tips for crafting a top-tier Paper.li newspaper.
Here are a few examples of some of the best Paper.li newspapers. Each of these newspapers have thousands of subscribers. Take a look at each of these to see what they do well. Be sure to incorporate some of the things that these Paper.li editors do with their newspaper into your Paper.li newspaper.
After reviewing this article, Paper.li, and all of the benefits it can provide to website owners, do you think it’s worth the time it takes (which is minimal) to create one for your website? We definitely think those who do move forward with creating a Paper.li newspaper will be happy they did.
Have you already created a Paper.li newspaper to help build brand awareness and increase website traffic? If so, how has it been working? Please share your comments below.
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Ryan Taft is a twenty-something entrepreneur with a passion for helping small businesses use online marketing tools to reach more customers and prospects, build relationships with those folks, and ultimately grow sales.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012 08:57
The author’s links (site & Twitter) aren’t working, can you pls. update them? Happy 2012!
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 08:00
Thanks for the great info. I have been using paper.li for a few months for a niche blog I have and it has earned me many followers and interests. I have created a new paper.li account for a new website that is currently being designed.
Friday, December 30th, 2011 23:28
Hi Ryan,
Thank you for taking the time to write this great overview of the Paper.li service. You provide a lot of great insight and tips on how to get the most out of Paper.li. Indeed, Paper.li is a great way for site owners to attract new readers and visitors, and the Paper.li Nomad makes onsite viewing fantastic.
Here are a few tips that I find keep papers in top form, and readers happy:
1. Continual review of content sources: we notice that over time Twitter users’ focus can shift, thus shifting the content for your paper. We like to encourage publishers to review lists, single users as well as #tags and keywords every couple of weeks to make sure they are still getting the content that they are expecting.
2. Editing: take 5 – 10 minutes a day to review the content of your Paper.li to ensure that it is top for your viewers. Delete content that might not be a fit for the day, or reposition an article that might not have made a headline position.
3. Tweet Manually: I love your Getting Noticed section and I think it is a great idea to put a Paper.li on a business card! I would add to that ” Manual tweet as much as you can” The manual tweet is so powerful and we are hearing back from a lot of publishers who are really going beyond the ” xyz Daily is out”, being a lot more creative and getting great response.
- “xyz article” by @xyz via @xyz (the link to your Paper.li)
- highlighting a featured article: ” Is this the end of social media?” Today’s headline story on YXZ Paper.li via @xyz ( the link to your Paper.li)
4. Editor’s note: yes, it is a must! It is a great way to add context around your Paper, your business or organization and as well, it is indexed on our newsstand in searches, and it is a great place to point readers back to your site, or blog.
5. Content streams: If you are using 10 content streams, you have a good chance of not getting all of the content you are expecting, especially if those streams are bringing in a lot of content.
Currently for each Paper.li we fetch approximately that last 1000 tweets per edition, averaging about 400 pieces of content per paper. We break down those 1000 tweets per content stream, so depending on how many content streams you are using the number of shared articles fetched is reduced.
Content streams are listed in order of priority, meaning those are the streams that will populate headline positions. So place your most valued streams at the top!
Lastly, use the filters on content streams to help filter in the content you would like, keeping the noise out.
I’ll be sure to point community members to your post. It is chuck full of great information!
Kelly, C.M at Paper.li
Friday, December 30th, 2011 15:40
Thank you so much for this information, I was looking for such a powerful tool for many days.
The newspaper concept is very good. And your tips about how to use it are very useful.
Thanks again for the share.
Friday, December 30th, 2011 07:37
Its really cool and really easy to published. Thanks for sharing this very good now thank you
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 14:28
I have seen some of these daily newspapers on Twitter, but I never thought about the opportunities. Until I read this article. It seems to be easy and powerful at the same time. Is there a way to have an impact on the language of the selected articles? Most people don’t speak more than two languages.
Thanks.
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Armand
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 14:28
I have seen some of these daily newspapers on Twitter, but I never thought about the opportunities. Until I read this article. It seems to be easy and powerful at the same time. Is there a way to have an impact on the language of the selected articles? Most people don’t speak more than two languages.
Thanks.
Taylor
Friday, December 30th, 2011 07:37
Its really cool and really easy to published. Thanks for sharing this very good now thank you
Ritu
Friday, December 30th, 2011 15:40
Thank you so much for this information, I was looking for such a powerful tool for many days.
The newspaper concept is very good. And your tips about how to use it are very useful.
Thanks again for the share.
Kelly Hungerford
Friday, December 30th, 2011 23:28
Hi Ryan,
Thank you for taking the time to write this great overview of the Paper.li service. You provide a lot of great insight and tips on how to get the most out of Paper.li. Indeed, Paper.li is a great way for site owners to attract new readers and visitors, and the Paper.li Nomad makes onsite viewing fantastic.
Here are a few tips that I find keep papers in top form, and readers happy:
1. Continual review of content sources: we notice that over time Twitter users’ focus can shift, thus shifting the content for your paper. We like to encourage publishers to review lists, single users as well as #tags and keywords every couple of weeks to make sure they are still getting the content that they are expecting.
2. Editing: take 5 – 10 minutes a day to review the content of your Paper.li to ensure that it is top for your viewers. Delete content that might not be a fit for the day, or reposition an article that might not have made a headline position.
3. Tweet Manually: I love your Getting Noticed section and I think it is a great idea to put a Paper.li on a business card! I would add to that ” Manual tweet as much as you can” The manual tweet is so powerful and we are hearing back from a lot of publishers who are really going beyond the ” xyz Daily is out”, being a lot more creative and getting great response.
- “xyz article” by @xyz via @xyz (the link to your Paper.li)
- highlighting a featured article: ” Is this the end of social media?” Today’s headline story on YXZ Paper.li via @xyz ( the link to your Paper.li)
4. Editor’s note: yes, it is a must! It is a great way to add context around your Paper, your business or organization and as well, it is indexed on our newsstand in searches, and it is a great place to point readers back to your site, or blog.
5. Content streams: If you are using 10 content streams, you have a good chance of not getting all of the content you are expecting, especially if those streams are bringing in a lot of content.
Currently for each Paper.li we fetch approximately that last 1000 tweets per edition, averaging about 400 pieces of content per paper. We break down those 1000 tweets per content stream, so depending on how many content streams you are using the number of shared articles fetched is reduced.
Content streams are listed in order of priority, meaning those are the streams that will populate headline positions. So place your most valued streams at the top!
Lastly, use the filters on content streams to help filter in the content you would like, keeping the noise out.
I’ll be sure to point community members to your post. It is chuck full of great information!
Kelly, C.M at Paper.li
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012 08:57
The author’s links (site & Twitter) aren’t working, can you pls. update them? Happy 2012!
Brian
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 08:00
Thanks for the great info. I have been using paper.li for a few months for a niche blog I have and it has earned me many followers and interests. I have created a new paper.li account for a new website that is currently being designed.