Do you have your own blog?
Are you getting regular traffic coming to your site to view your content?
Or maybe you’re creating lots of new content but your audience isn’t engaging with it – even if you’re promoting it to your email list and through your social media channels.
If you find you’re in this situation and you’re not seeing the results you would like, it’s time to look at spreading out your content to other channels to help you do some of the heavy lifting and drive more readers back to your site!
One way to do this is using Apple News Publisher.
If you’re not familiar with Apple News, it’s a news reader similar to Flipboard where you can easily view your favorite news sources, blogs and more from your iOS devices.
With more than 1 billion iOS devices sold, how would you like to bring some of those users over to your site to read your content?
In this article, you’ll learn how to publish to Apple News. This way you can start capitalizing on the large number of iOS users who will be using Apple News to read their favorite content.
Let’s take a look at how to add your blog to Apple News Publisher.
How to Publish to Apple News
To add your blog to Apple News, follow these steps.
1. Visit Apple News Publisher
2. Sign in with your Apple ID you want associated with your publication
3. Agree to Apple’s End User License Agreement for News
4. Fill-in your publication information.
This includes things like the name of your publication, address, phone number and so on.
5. Setup your channel
Here you’ll need to enter your blog name, website address, primary audience, languages, territory and so on.
6. Add your RSS feed
7. Publish your site to Apple News
After you publish to Apple News, Apple will review your application and get back with you.
Once your site has been approved, it should begin showing up in Apple News.
Promoting Your Blog
Once you’ve been approved to publish to Apple News, let your email newsletter subscribers know your blog is available on Apple News.
You may want to include instructions on how they can access it.
Also be sure to share this information on your social media channels too.
Over to You
It takes just a couple of minutes to publish to Apple News.
With over 1 billion iOS devices sold, publishing to Apple News is a no-brainer for bloggers looking to reach more readers.Click To TweetNot only can it lead to increased exposure for your blog, but also more traffic to your website.
With mobile adoption on the rise, you’ll also be setting yourself up to reach more of your target audience on any of the 1 billion iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch).
Question: Besides Apple News, what other places do you promote your new blog content on?