How to Republish, Repurpose and Reinvent Your Content Using LinkedIn Publisher

By Nathan Ellering
Published June 15, 2015

Want to give existing content new life and greater visibility?

Looking for a way to publish more often without much extra work?

Use LinkedIn Publisher to consistently provide useful content for your audience, gain visibility and build your professional identity without writing anything new!

In this article you'll discover three ways to give existing content new life using LinkedIn Publisher.

Discover how to republish, repurpose and reinvent content with LinkedIn Publisher.

One of the fastest ways to get started on LinkedIn is to copy and paste your complete content posts from other blogs. If you decide to go this route, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.

It's important to understand how Google views duplicate content.

You should wait at least two weeks after the post publishes before you republish it to LinkedIn. That gives the bots from search engines enough time to index and understand which post is the original, and rank it higher than republished content.

Barry Feldman posted an article on LinkedIn a month after it originally appeared on his blog.

Copying and pasting entire blog posts onto LinkedIn is common practice among top social media and marketing professionals.

To let readers know where to find the original post, include a sentence at the beginning or end that directs readers to the original version. This is especially important when you republish your guest post from another company's blog and it's a nice rule of thumb to adopt when you republish your own content.

Readers will know where they can find more of your articles. Plus, they'll see you're honest about republishing your post.

Take the time to craft a headline that's a little different and specific to the LinkedIn platform.

For example, when Guillaume Decugis republishes content on LinkedIn, Medium and other syndication sites, he changes the title of each post to distinguish and optimize it. Then readers who search for the keyword will see multiple versions of the headline on the first page of search engine results.

When Scoop.it republishes content, they use different headlines optimized for the various platforms to distinguish the posts.

Remember, treat LinkedIn Publisher as a distribution channel, where the goal is to increase visibility and grow your audience. Send people back to your blog, so they can get to know more about you and your business.

Do you have robust ebooks, case studies and speeches that are too long for LinkedIn? No worries. It's easy to optimize your existing long-form blog content for LinkedIn Publisher.

Take your long-form blog posts or ebooks and break them down into multiple individual posts. Include additional images and subheads too. You can even take old speeches and write them as LinkedIn posts.

Ann Handley used a 2013 speech to publish this 2015 article on LinkedIn.

For example, Ann Handley (who does an excellent job of mixing new content and repurposed content into her LinkedIn Publisher posts) recently reimagined a speech published on her blog in 2013 for a LinkedIn Publisher post in 2015.

If you don't want to republish the same content (or even parts of it) from your blog, there are a few other options to avoid starting completely from scratch.

Take a look at the analytics from your published content to see which articles performed best. Look at traffic, social media shares and any other metrics you monitor for performance.

Then try to figure out what made that content so successful. One way to do this is to ask yourself questions about each post. Once you determine the source of that success, write a new article for LinkedIn that's similar.

You can also go through your blog and find articles with similar themes. Then pick the big ideas from each post and turn it into a list post on LinkedIn.

Neal Schaffer linked to past articles and podcasts in this list post.

Include a summary paragraph or two from each post, as well as a link back to the original.

Tips for LinkedIn Publisher Engagement and Visibility

Whether you republish existing content verbatim or revise it, there are a few things to do to optimize it for LinkedIn.

OkDork analyzed 3,000 of the most successful LinkedIn Publishing posts to come up with these helpful takeaways:

Write headlines between 40-49 characters long.Use "how," "how to" and list headlines for good performance.Break up posts into scannable sections using LinkedIn's inline headings.Include many images in your posts. In this study, posts with eight visuals got nearly double the amount of page views as those with any other number of images.Write long-form content (between 1,900 and 2,000 words), as those posts perform best.Use media formats such as videos and presentations sparingly, since they don't perform as well.

Next, when you publish on LinkedIn, use a distribution plan similar to the one you use to share content posted to other platforms.

Create a sharing schedule for your posts on different social networks. Image: Placeit.

Create a social media sharing schedule to share your LinkedIn posts more than once on various social media platforms. This will increase awareness and bring traffic to your posts. Then use that same social media sharing schedule a month or two after you publish your post to give it an extra boost.

Another source of visibility is keywords. If you don't already know the specific keywords for your niche, spend half an hour using Google's Keyword Planner tool to discover actual words your audience is using to find content in your niche. Then, use popular keywords in the text of your LinkedIn posts so they catch the eyes of readers looking for that content as they scroll through their Pulse news feed.

Use Google's Keyword Planner to find the words people use to find content in your niche.

Additionally, come up with a list of keyword tags and choose a few that work well with your niche. When you republish your posts, tag them with keywords for maximum exposure.

Finally, chances are you've been building your email list ever since you started to create content. Just as you'd share a blog post from your website, share your LinkedIn posts in your email newsletters. Simply add a section to your newsletter to highlight your curated LinkedIn content and include links.

Over to You

LinkedIn Publisher is an excellent resource for increasing your visibility and thought leadership. Republish, repurpose and use ideas from existing content, and you'll never be at a loss for ideas.

Be sure to share often and in various places, so your audience finds your content and can benefit from your knowledge.

What do you think? What types of content do you publish on LinkedIn? What strategies drive more visibility? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

Tips for republishing, repurposing and reinventing content with LinkedIn Publisher.

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