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In the fast-changing world of digital news publishing, staying ahead is important.
At Newsifier, we are focused on improving our platform to meet the needs of today’s publishers. Over the last year, we have listened to your feedback and worked hard to develop new features that make your work easier and help your business grow.
We are excited to preview the new features we have created to help you improve your publishing process.
Our latest features offer control, flexibility, and insight into your content strategy. Whether you want to:
These updates are designed to solve challenges that news publishers face daily.
Let’s dive into why we built each of our latest features– and how you can use them to grow your news publishing business!
After listening to your feedback and investing two years in development, we're excited to introduce one of the most anticipated features— our all-new newsletter solution!
Designed with publishers in mind, this feature will make setting up and growing your newsletter easier and more effective.
Here are a few things to know about growing your reach in the news publishing industry:
In today’s news landscape, building your own user base is crucial to maintaining control and not becoming too dependent on platforms like Facebook and Google.
By sending out daily newsletters, you can directly engage with your audience and grow a loyal community of readers, driving consistent traffic to your site.
Publishers who regularly send newsletters often see significant increases in repeat visits and deeper user engagement. Recurring daily traffic from newsletters serves as a positive signal to Google, which can lead to increased traffic from Google Discover and other search platforms.
As former publishers, we understand the frustration of managing daily newsletters. The constant exporting and importing of email lists, the time-consuming template creation, and the daily struggle to include relevant content can be a major hassle.
With our newsletter solution, we have got you covered!
By enabling seamless integration with the CMS, automatically syncing your subscriber base, and pulling in the latest articles and images— our Newsletter feature saves you valuable time and energy.
You can set up a newsletter in minutes, and it’s even possible to start several newsletters on different topics at once and have them sent on autopilot every day.
One of the biggest challenges with newsletters is growing a subscriber base. Traditional methods, such as generic sign-up forms in the footer or homepage pop-ups, often result in low conversion rates and few sign-ups.
Research indicates that embedding sign-up forms directly within relevant articles is far more effective.
Our feature allows you to strategically place subscriber forms where they matter most, increasing sign-ups and ensuring your newsletters reach the right audience.
In a newsroom, speed is everything. Editors need real-time insights into content performance to quickly respond to trending topics and breaking news. However, since the launch of Google Analytics 4, the real-time analytics feature has fallen short of expectations, causing frustration among publishers.
Moreover, Google Analytics wasn’t specifically designed with news publishers in mind, leaving out key features that are incredibly valuable to this industry. For instance, it’s not easy to accurately track traffic coming from Google Discover.
That's why we've developed our own real-time analytics, fully integrated with the Newsifier CMS. This allows you to view real-time article performance directly on the article page or the article overview page.
One of the standout features of our real-time analytics is its ability to precisely identify traffic coming from Google Discover, eliminating any guesswork. Additionally, it highlights trending topics and showcases which authors are currently receiving the most real-time views, adding a fun element of gamification and fostering healthy competition among editors.
A well-organized tag structure is essential for SEO and attracting Google traffic. Publishers often manage hundreds or thousands of tag pages, which can easily be neglected without proper optimization.
Unoptimized meta titles and descriptions lead to poor visibility and low click-through rates, pushing these pages further down in search results. This makes the task of optimizing numerous tag pages daunting.
Our new Tag Manager simplifies this process. It uses AI to identify high-value tags and prioritize which tag pages to optimize.
With this tool, you can now generate optimized meta titles and descriptions for hundreds of tags simultaneously, boosting your traffic and enhancing your Google rankings.
Editing an article can be frustrating when you discover that a colleague was making changes simultaneously, resulting in your edits being overwritten.
Our new feature addresses this by displaying the current editor in the article overview and restricting access to one person at a time. This prevents accidental overwrites and ensures that your edits remain intact.
By default, your article's headline serves as its meta title, determining how it appears in Google search results. With our custom meta title feature, you can now specify a different title for search engines while keeping the original headline on your website.
This flexibility is especially valuable for publishers who want to optimize their search engine visibility with targeted keywords, while maintaining a more engaging and compelling headline for readers on your site. This ensures your articles attract the right audience through search engines while still captivating visitors once they land on your page.
The meta description, along with the meta title, defines how your article appears on Google. An optimized meta description can increase the number of clicks on your article when it appears in the search results. Our AI feature can generate an optimized Meta Description for your article, saving editors time to come up with one themselves.
Currently, when sharing an article on social media platforms like Facebook, X, and Instagram through the CMS, the headline from your website is automatically used as the social media post's headline.
With our new feature, you can select a different headline (the OG:title) for social media posts, allowing you to create a more engaging and attention-grabbing title while maintaining the original headline on your website.
Research indicates that Google Discover increasingly utilizes the OG:title when displaying articles, so leveraging this option can enhance your article's visibility and drive more traffic from Google Discover.
High-performing editors are crucial to the success of online news publishers, but managing them and providing consistent feedback can be challenging.
Successful publishers excel by implementing effective feedback systems and managing their editors well. Our new feature allows you to send daily, weekly, or monthly email reports to your editors, offering improvement tips and highlighting their best-performing articles. Setting this up is quick and easy.
Adding related articles within your content offers several benefits.
Firstly, it encourages visitors to stay on your website longer, by reading more articles, which can lead to increased revenue.
Secondly, it enhances the SEO performance of your articles. When visitors land on your site from Google and leave after reading just one article, this is considered a "bounce." A high bounce rate can negatively impact your Google ranking. By adding related articles, you can reduce the bounce rate, thereby improving your article’s SEO.
With our new AI-powered articles feature, you have a smarter way to insert related content into your articles. This feature automatically analyzes your content and generates a natural sentence that links to a related article.
Unlike the current method that inserts related articles as separate blocks, this AI-generated sentence seamlessly integrates into your content, encouraging further reading.
Broken or outdated URLs can disrupt the user experience and negatively impact your website’s SEO. We've developed the Redirect Manager feature within our CMS to give you full control over how these situations are handled. This tool allows you to easily manage and set up custom redirects for any broken or outdated URLs on your site.
With the Redirect Manager, you can specify a URL that you want to redirect and then choose the target URL where you want visitors to be directed instead. This feature is particularly useful when updating tags, categories, or any other content that may change over time, ensuring that users are always taken to the correct and relevant page.
The Redirect Manager empowers you to maintain a seamless user experience by keeping all your links working correctly. This feature gives you 100% control over your site’s redirects, allowing you to handle any specific cases where custom redirects are needed.
Our clients expressed the need for greater visibility into the changes made to their articles. As articles are edited, updated, and improved by different team members over time, it can be challenging to track what changes were made, why they were made, and who made them.
Without a clear record, it’s difficult to manage the content effectively.
To address this, we developed the Article Edit History feature. This feature provides a simple and easy-to-understand log of all changes made to an article. Editors can quickly see who made edits, what specific changes were made, and when these changes occurred. This transparency helps teams collaborate more effectively, ensures accountability for all edits, and helps maintain high content quality.
Another key benefit of this feature is the ability to revert to an earlier version of an article. If you need to restore previous content or undo recent changes, the Article Edit History feature makes it easy. This is particularly useful when errors occur or when you find that an earlier version was better.
In addition, currently, to activate the auto-save feature editors must first fill in a headline. This requirement can sometimes lead to issues if the headline is not ready or if it is forgotten. As a result, content might be lost if it isn’t saved properly.
With our improved auto-save feature, this is no longer necessary. Articles will now be saved automatically, even if a headline hasn’t been filled in yet. This improvement is designed to prevent the accidental loss of content and ensure that your work is always saved, even in the early stages of writing.
All our clients generate revenue through advertising, but 95% of editors are unaware that there are ways to optimize their articles to increase advertising revenue per article. This feature analyzes how well an article is currently optimized for revenue within the editor and guides writers on how to improve it further.
For example, the tool may suggest breaking the article into shorter paragraphs or adding more content to enhance its optimization.
For many news publishers, traffic from social media platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram is crucial.
But how can you increase traffic from these sources?
Our new Social Media Analytics feature provides advanced insights into which posts generate the most traffic, likes, and comments. Additionally, the tool can analyze all your social media data and give you AI-powered tips on how to increase your social media traffic.
The tool also monitors engagement on your social media pages and tracks the growth or decline in the number of followers. This allows you to refine your social media strategy and further increase traffic from these platforms.
Traffic from Google, and especially Google Discover, is becoming increasingly important for news publishers.
This new feature allows publishers to connect their Search Console directly to Newsifier. They can then see in the CMS which articles receive the most traffic from Google Search, Google Discover, and Google News, and which keywords drive the most traffic to the website.
The best part is that this feature, with the help of AI, will show you what content to create to attract more traffic from Google Discover, Google Search, and Google News. It will even suggest specific article ideas that will help you to get more Google Discover traffic.
We have noticed that many of our clients are increasingly getting their news from podcasts, TV shows, and YouTube videos. The traditional method of listening to these and manually transcribing them into text, and then creating articles can be cumbersome, and even transcription tools often fall short in quality, particularly for Dutch.
To address this, we’ve developed a Chrome plugin that automatically converts audio from podcasts, videos, or live TV into text, ready for article writing. It’s optimized for high-quality transcriptions in English, Dutch, and several other languages.
Another challenge our clients face is the need to listen to large amounts of audio to find relevant content for their news websites.
For example, if you run a niche website focused on Feyenoord and listen to a general podcast about Dutch football, Feyenoord might only be discussed for 5 minutes in a 60-minute podcast.
Instead of spending the entire hour listening for just 5 minutes of relevant content, our tool saves you time and effort by automatically generating a summary and dividing the recording into chapters, allowing you to quickly grasp the key points.
It also features a search function to locate specific keywords, like 'Real Madrid' or 'Mbappé', within the recording. It can translate recordings into your preferred language, making global content accessible for your articles.
But that’s not all. With our AI integration, you can automatically receive article suggestions based on the recordings. The AI can even write a complete article for you, including an optimized headline.
Newsifier is dedicated to supporting your success in the evolving landscape of digital news publishing. Our latest features are crafted to streamline your workflow, enhance your content strategy, and drive your business growth.
From the powerful new newsletter solution to the innovative tools for SEO, social media, and content management, each addition is designed with your needs in mind. By integrating these features into your daily operations, you can expect improved efficiency, increased engagement, and a stronger connection with your audience.
