Get More Traffic With Browser Push Notifications [LNIM179]

Looking for more traffic for your site?  Who isn’t?  In this episode, I talk about the power of browser push notifications — those little browser alerts that entice you to click – and how to use them.  All this and more on the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast.

Show Notes

 

Setting up web notifications means you have to set up prompts asking your visitors to accept notifications from your website. I never really thought about using web push notifications for the latenightim.com  because personally, I don’t like interruptions so I usually say no. But I decided to try it out and turn this on and I’m happy to see that a lot of people are opting in to be notified.

What does that mean? I basically use a tool where I can send a message to those users who opted in and that will pop up in their browser. I intend to use this for an intelligent purpose such as notifying people of a new podcast episode. If they click that notification, it will take them right to the blog post where they can play the episode. Pretty cool. This is also helpful because there are people who listen to the podcast regularly but aren’t subscribed to a podcasting tool.

These push notifications are easy to install.  There is a plugin in WordPress that you can use and there are services out there that you can employ to get this going.

Some things you should consider if you decide to try this out:

• Don’t fall into the trap of assuming that you know what people are going to do though so you must test things.
• Pay attention to is the copy that you write in these push notifications – keep it short and to the point. Your purpose is to get your subscribers to click on the notification and that means you’ve got to be clear and communicate value.  Scarcity and urgency are great here as well.
• Be mindful of time zones. Schedule these notifications accordingly so your users do not get annoyed.
• Adjust the frequency of your push notifications as too much may cause your users to opt-out.
• Segmentation is something you should consider so only send notifications that matter to a certain group.

  

 

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