Tuesday, December 10, 2019

How to Monitor Your WordPress Website Server Uptime (Easy Way)

Do you want to monitor server uptime for your WordPress site? Monitoring server uptime allows you to get alert notifications when your website goes down or is inaccessible.

Keeping your website online ensures that your customers never have any issues visiting your website. An unresponsive site is not only bad for user experience, but it is also bad for your SEO rankings.

In this article, we’ll show you how to easily monitor server uptime in WordPress. We’ll share multiple uptime monitoring solutions, and you can choose one that works best for you.

Monitoring your WordPress server uptime

What is Website Server Uptime Monitoring?

Website server uptime monitoring allows you to track outages on your website. The server uptime monitoring tools notify you immediately if something goes wrong with your website, so you can get it fixed immediately.

Many WordPress hosting companies promise 99.9% server uptime. However, sometimes this is not the case.

The biggest sign of poor hosting service is that their servers go down frequently and remain down for several minutes or even hours.

Why You Need to Monitor Server Uptime?

Often users trust their web hosting companies and let their guards down. Sometimes you may not even know if your website experienced downtime specially if it happened in the middle of the night or during holidays.

Website downtime can severely affect your business, website reputation, and user experience.

  1. More Downtime Means Loss in Money: If your website remains inaccessible for a long period of time you will inevitably lose revenue.
  2. User Experience and Brand Reputation: Having your website down is sort of like closing your door in users’ faces even though you’re not doing it intentionally. It creates a bad impression and you may lose potential customers.
  3. Search Engine Influence: If your website is frequently down, then search engines might assume that your website is insignificant or lacks consistency. Often they penalize those websites that fail to maintain 24/7 uptime.

Obviously, you cannot just sit in front of a computer and keep refreshing your website to see if it is up.

There are some really excellent and free tools that you can use to automatically monitor server uptime for your website.

These services will monitor your site uptime and will also promptly alert you via email, or SMS message when your server is down.

Let’s take a look at some of the best tools for monitoring server uptime for your website.

1. Monitor Server Uptime with Uptime Robot

Uptime Robot offers both free and paid plans to monitor your server uptime.

Their free plan checks your website every 5 minutes, and the paid plan every 60 seconds. Paid plan starts for $4.50 per month (billed annually), and it includes SMS, voice call, email, and other alerts.

The first thing you need to do is visit the Uptime Robot website and click on the Signup button.

Sign up Uptime Robot

Next, you need to select a plan for your monitoring service.

Choose monitoring plan

After that, finish the signup process and log in to your Uptime Robot account dashboard. From here, you need to click on the Add New Monitor button.

Add new monitor to Uptime Robot

This will bring up a popup where you need to select a monitoring method (HTTP or HTTPS), and then add your website URL. In that same modal, you can also set alerts to be sent when your website is down.

Add your website

Once you are done, click on the ‘Create Monitor’ button to save your changes.

Uptime Robot will now save your website and start monitoring your server uptime. You’ll see detailed stats on your account dashboard and receive alerts when your website is down.

Uptime Robot dashboard stats

2. Setting up Uptime Monitoring Using Pingdom

Pingdom is a popular performance monitoring tool that allows you to set up server uptime monitoring for your website. Pingdom is a paid service with plans starting from $42 per month. They also have a starter plan that’s $165 / year.

Pingdom is a more robust platform offering real-time uptime monitoring service. They offer detailed stats, logs, monitoring from various geographic locations, and more.

First, you need to visit the Pingdom website and click on the green button to start your free trial.

Pingdom

You’ll be asked to provide your email and password to create an account. After that, you will be asked to provide phone number, email, timezone, and website URL. Make sure to check performance and monitoring options, and then click on the ‘Let’s get started’ button.

Pingdom account setup

Pingdom will automatically setup monitoring and will send you a test alert to your email address. That’s all, you have successfully set up uptime monitoring for your website using Pingdom.

You can set multiple alerts and tracking for various locations. Pingdom documentation and support can help you set that up, but their interface is fairly straight forward.

Pingdom also keeps your uptime history, so you can properly evaluate your web hosting company’s performance over time.

3. Checking Your Website is Up or Down

If you just want to know whether your website is really down, or you are facing internet issues, then you can do that quickly using IsItWP’s uptime checker tool.

Simply go to the IsItWP Uptime Checker tool and enter your website address.

IsItWP Uptime Checker tool

Uptime Checker tool will quickly check your website and will show you whether your website is up or down.

Uptime checker tool result

What to Do When Your Website is Down?

If your website down, and you need to figure out what to do next, then here are the step by step instructions you should follow.

Step 1. Verify that it is down for everyone and not just you

You can start by checking your site with IsItWP’s uptime checker tool. If it shows that your website is up, then it is probably just your internet.

First, clear your browser cache and DNS cache. After that reload the website.

If that doesn’t work, then see if you can access your website from a different IP address. You can do so by using a VPN service or even just using your mobile phone internet.

If you can access your website, then this means that either your ISP or your hosting company has accidentally blocked your IP address. You can contact both service providers to resolve the issue.

If you recently changed your domain name‘s DNS settings, then this could also mean that the DNS has not updated in your particular geographic location.

There is not much you can do but wait till DNS is properly updated. This may take a few hours to a day.

Step 2. If Your Website is Down for Everyone

If you have verified that your website is down for everyone, then you need to immediately reach out to your hosting provider. They may be having issues with their server and can provide you more details.

Usually, hosting companies are quick to respond to such issues, and your website will be back soon.

However, if your website is frequently down, or you don’t get a satisfactory answer from them, then proceed to the next step.

Step 3. Move to a Better Hosting Provider

Due to tough competition in the hosting industry, some lesser-known companies cut costs by using outdated technologies, unskilled staff, and inadequate customer service.

However, if your website is frequently down and you cannot do much about it, then you need to move to a better hosting provider.

Here’s our list of reliable WordPress hosting providers:

For more hosting options, see our list of the best WordPress hosting companies to choose from.

Next, you’ll need to transfer your website to a new host. We have a complete step by step tutorial on how to move your website to a new hosting provider (without losing SEO and without any downtime).

Some providers like SiteGround and WP Engine will offer free website migration service. You just need to ask their support.

We hope this article helped you learn how to monitor server uptime in WordPress. You may also want to follow our guide on how to keep your WordPress site secure to avoid any mishaps like data loss or hacking.

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December 10, 2019 at 07:00PM

Monday, December 9, 2019

How to Track Link Clicks and Button Clicks in WordPress (Easy Way)

Do you want to track link clicks and button clicks in WordPress?

Tracking link and button clicks helps you uncover how users interact with your website. You can use the insights to improve your website and plan your strategy accordingly.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to easily track link clicks and button clicks in WordPress.

Easily track link and button clicks in WordPress

Why You Should Track Link and Button Clicks in WordPress?

Links and buttons are two of the most common ways users interact with any website on the internet. These are also the elements that lead website visitors to make purchases, sign up, and convert into a customer.

Tracking how your users interact with different elements on your website helps you learn what’s working on your website. More importantly, it helps you learn what’s not working and needs improvement.

For instance, If users are not clicking on the add to cart button in your online store, then you can investigate what’s stopping them from doing so.

Another great example is your affiliate links. You can track which links your users click more often than others.

These insights can help you make data-driven decisions for the success of your business.

Having said that, let’s take a look at how you can easily track links and button clicks in WordPress.

We have broken down this guide into the following sections, so you can easily follow along.

Tracking Link and Button Clicks in WordPress Using MonsterInsights

The best tool to collect marketing data on your website is Google Analytics. However, despite Google’s best efforts many beginners and even experienced marketers find it a bit intimidating.

This is where MonsterInsights comes in. It is the best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress that allows you to properly setup Google Analytics, and make the most out of it.

MonsterInsights goes beyond just adding a tracking script in the footer. It adds automatically adds proper event tracking to all links, buttons, cart areas, and more. Most importantly, it also shows you human-readable reports right inside your WordPress dashboard.

Note: Our developers built MonsterInsights for WPBeginner content team. We released it as a plugin to help other small business owners. Today, over 2 million websites use the plugin to make data-driven decisions.

MonsterInsights has a free version, but you’ll need at least the PRO plan to take full advantage of all the powerful tracking features it offers.

Setting up MonsterInsights is super easy.

First, you need to install and activate the MonsterInsights plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, go to Insights » Settings page to enter your license key. You can find this information under your account on MonsterInsights website.

MonsterInsights license key

After verifying your license key, you need to scroll down a little on the settings page and then click on the ‘Launch Setup Wizard’ button.

Launch setup wizard

MonsterInsights will launch the set up wizard which will connect your website to Google Analytics.

If you need detailed instructions, then see our tutorial on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress which will walk you through the entire setup.

MonsterInsights setup wizard automatically sets up all the right settings based on the type of your website. It truly is effortless.

Once you have setup MonsterInsights, you can resume this tutorial.

Now, that everything is up and running let’s start setting up click tracking.

A lot of web publishers use affiliate marketing to make money online.

As an affiliate marketer, you’ll need to learn how your affiliate links are doing. Obviously, you can track your affiliate earnings from third-party resources, but that does not give you an accurate picture of how users interact with your affiliate links.

Most affiliate marketers use a link cloaking plugin like ThirstyAffiliates. This allows you to create shorter affiliate links and manage all your links inside WordPress. For example, https://ift.tt/2s6ANfd.

MonsterInsights makes it easy to set up affiliate link tracking in WordPress.

Simply go to Insights » Settings and switch to the ‘Publisher’ tab. From here, you can add your affiliate link prefix to start tracking.

Tracking affiliate links in WordPress

Don’t forget to click on the Save changes button to store your settings.

Within few hours, you will be able to see your affiliate link performance in your Publisher reports located under Insights » Reports menu in WordPress.

View top affiliate links

Outbound links are the links pointing to external websites. These could also be uncloaked affiliate links, links to your partner websites, or other websites owned by you.

MonsterInsights automatically tracks all clicks on those outgoing links. You can view them by visiting Insights » Reports page under Publishers report.

Outbound links report

Pro tip: If you see that you’re sending a lot of clicks to an external website, then you should contact them to work out a strategic partnership. This can be a sponsorship, cross-promotion, affiliate partnership, etc.

Ecommerce Tracking in WordPress

If you run an eCommerce business using WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads, then MonsterInsights comes with powerful eCommerce tracking features.

Let’s turn on eCommerce tracking on your website.

First, you need to visit your Google Analytics dashboard. From there you need to switch to the Admin view.

Google analytics admin

Next, you need to click on the eCommerce settings option.

eCommerce settings

After that, you will see the options to turn on eCommerce tracking and enhanced eCommerce tracking in Google Analytics.

enable eCommerce in Google Analytics

Now that you have enabled eCommerce in Google Analytics, let’s enable the MonsterInsights eCommerce addon.

First, you need to go to Insights » Addons page. From here you need to install and activate the ‘Ecommerce’ addon.

Ecommerce addon

After that, you need to head over to Insights » Settings page and switch to the eCommerce tab. From here, you can turn on enhanced eCommerce tracking. MonsterInsights will automatically detect your eCommerce software and turn it on for you.

Turning on eCommerce tracking in MonsterInsights

That’s all you have successfully enabled eCommerce tracking on your website.

eCommerce reporting

On top, you’ll see an overview of your eCommerce conversions. Below that, you will find your top referral sources and the exact conversions and revenue for each source.

This information helps you learn which referral sources to maximize, and which one of them are not doing so well.

MonsterInsights also sends a lot of useful data to Google that you can see under Conversions » Ecommerce section.

Ecommerce reports in Google Analytics

Tracking File Downloads in WordPress

If you have a membership site that sells digital downloads or offer downloadable content on your website, then tracking file download buttons will help you find how users interact with those files.

MonsterInsights automatically tracks file downloads for common file types like documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and zip files.

You can also add other file types that you may want to track. Simply go to Insights » Settings page and then switch to the ‘Engagement’ tab. From here, scroll down to the File Downloads to add the file type extension that you want to track.

File downloads to track

You can view your file download stats by visiting Insights » Reports and switching to the ‘Publisher’ tab.

File download clicks

Tracking Form Conversions in WordPress

Forms play an important role in the success of any website. You use forms for email newsletter, shopping cart, purchase and order forms, and all your contact forms.

It is crucial to understand how users interact with your forms, which forms get more conversions and which forms are not getting enough attention.

Let’s start tracking forms in WordPress using MonsterInsights.

First, you need to head over to Settings » Addons page. From here, install and activate the Forms addon.

forms addon

Once enabled, MonsterInsights will automatically detect the forms on your website and start gathering interaction data. It works seamlessly with all popular WordPress form plugins like WPForms, Formidable Forms, Gravity Forms, etc.

To view your form reports, you need to go to Insights » Reports page and switch to the ‘Forms’ tab.

Forms report

So far we have learned how to automatically track links and button clicks across your website. What if you wanted to track a specific link on your WordPress site, and create custom reports for it?

Luckily, MonsterInsights makes this easy as well. Its called custom link attribution feature, and here is how you can add that for any link on your website.

Simply switch to the HTML view in the block editor and add your link in the following format:

<a href="https://www.example.com" data-vars-ga-category="Call to action clicks" data-vars-ga-action="CTA link click" data-vars-ga-label="Homepage CTA clicks">My custom link</a> 

This link contains three new link attributes:

  • data-vars-ga-category : Sets a category for your link
  • data-vars-ga-action : Describes the action this link performs
  • data-vars-ga-label : A label for your link which helps you identify it

You can find your custom link tracking report under your Google Analytics dashboard Behavior » Events section.

We hope this article helped you learn how to track link clicks and button clicks in WordPress. You may also want to see our complete guide on the website marketing data you must track on all your websites, and our comprehensive guide on how to increase your blog traffic.

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December 09, 2019 at 07:12PM

Friday, December 6, 2019

5 Best WordPress Business Directory Plugins

Are you looking for the best WordPress business directory plugins?

A business directory helps users discover service providers in a particular niche or category. At the same time, it helps those businesses find customers and opportunities.

As a website owner, you can even make money online by selling paid listings on your business directory.

In this article, we have hand-picked some of the best WordPress business directory plugins to help you save some time and money.

Best business directory plugins for WordPress

Best WordPress Business Directory Plugins

A good business directory plugin allows you to easily create lists of businesses organized by location, category, and other parameters.

Business directories help users find new vendors while helping businesses connect with customers and other businesses.

Unlike a Google Search, a business directory is made up of curated listings with description, reviews, and photos. This makes them more useful for users looking for specific businesses.

You’ll be looking for a business directory plugin that allows you to do all that. We will also highlight business directory plugins that allow your users to submit listings, integrate paid submissions, and search options.

That being said, let’s take a look at some of the best WordPress business directory plugins that you can use.

1. Formidable Form

Formidable Forms

Formidable Forms is one of the best WordPress form builder plugins on the market. It allows you to create advanced forms and add them to your website.

Using the real estate listings template, you can create a form that users will use to submit their entries into your directory. Then, you can display the business directory listings on a WordPress page.

It comes with many premium add-ons to add more features and functionality to your WordPress business directory. Formidable Forms fully supports MailChimp, PayPal, WPML, and WooCommerce.

For more details, check out our step by step tutorial on how to properly create a web directory in WordPress using Formidable Forms.

2. Business Directory Plugin

Business Directory Plugin

Business Directory Plugin is a free WordPress plugin to create a simple business directory. It comes with basic features required to run a web directory like customizable form fields, accepting payments for listings, etc.

It allows you to sort entries into categories and tags, create featured entries, and customize entry forms.

If you want to access more features and add-ons, then it has a pro version as well. The premium features include multiple modules, Google Maps support, user ratings, zip code search, file upload, and more.

3. Connections Business Directory

Connections

Connections is a powerful business directory plugin for WordPress. It comes with a set of custom fields that can be used to create almost any kind of web directory. In the privacy settings, you or your users can set privacy level for certain custom fields like business phone numbers or internal messages.

Displaying your directory on the front-end is very easy. You need to add a simple shortcode to your directory page. It offers custom shortcodes with extensive options to customize the appearance of your business directory.

Connections plugin also comes with template support so that you can choose a layout for your listings from pre-built directory templates.

4. GeoDirectory

GeoDirectory

As the name suggests, GeoDirectory allows you to create a location-based business directory like Yelp, TripAdvisor, YellowPages, etc. Using a simple interface, your users can submit listings to the directory. These listings or entries are pointed on the map, and your users can search for locations, businesses, neighborhoods, etc.

You can monetize your website by selling the directory listings. GeoDirectory also allows you to display event listings, create multi-location directories, and add payment gateways.

5. Name Directory

Name Directory

Name Directory is another free WordPress directory plugin. It allows you to create a business or personal directory easily. Using the configuration options, you can select a layout and customize plugin functionality.

It supports shortcodes to display directory listings on a WordPress post or page. You can sort the entries to show new listings on top of the page, allowing those entries to gain more exposure.

We hope this article helped you find the best WordPress directory plugins. You may also want to check out our list of the best email marketing services for small business.

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December 06, 2019 at 06:00PM

How to Create a WooCommerce Contest to Boost Loyalty and Engagement

Do you want to create a WooCommerce contest to boost customer engagement and increase sales?

Contests are an easy way to get new visitors to your WooCommerce store, increase brand awareness, and keep customers engaged.

They can also help you boost customer loyalty, improve conversions, and increase sales in the long run.

In this article, we’ll show you how to easily create a WooCommerce contest to boost loyalty and engagement.

Creating a contest in WooCommerce

Why Run a WooCommerce Contest?

As an online store, you need to bring new customers to your website. The challenge is that most of these users leave without making a purchase.

Only 30% of customers who add products to their cart actually finish the checkout. This is why we have a comprehensive guide on how to recover abandoned cart sales in WooCommerce.

Once a user leaves your website, it is hard to bring them back unless you find ways to stay in touch.

Adding contests and giveaways allows you to provide users a fun reason to stay a little longer. They also help you collect email addresses, user responses, and grow your social media following.

All of this ultimately leads to more sales and increased customer loyalty.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily create a WooCommerce contest to grow your business.

Creating a WooCommerce Contest Giveaway

For this tutorial, we’ll be using a plugin called RafflePress. It is the best WooCommerce contest / giveaway plugin that allows you to easily run viral contests and giveaway campaigns on your website.

It comes with social actions that help you amplify your reach and find new customers. It also helps you grow your email list, increase social media followers, and boost customer loyalty.

Note: our team built RafflePress to help us grow our online presence. Based on user request, we released it as a plugin for anyone to use.

First, you need to install and activate the RafflePress plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, the plugin will add a new menu item labeled ‘RafflePress’ in your WordPress admin sidebar. Clicking on it will take you to the plugin’s settings page.

Add your license key

First, you will need to enter your license key. You can find this information under your account on the RafflePress website.

After entering your license key, you are now ready to create your first WooCommerce contest.

Simply visit RafflePress » Add New page to get started.

Add new WooCommerce contest giveaway

This will launch the RafflePress contest builder.

First, you need to provide a name for your new contest campaign. After that, you need to select a template to use as a starting point.

Contest title and template

RafflePress comes with several goal-based contest templates to choose from. These templates are designed to help you get the best results for specific goals like growing your email list or social media following.

You can select one that best suits your goals. If you are unsure, then start with the classic template.

RafflePress will now load the template in the builder.

Add a Prize to Your WooCommerce Contest

Let’s set a prize or incentive for your WooCommerce contest. You need to click on the pencil icon under the Giveaway Prize Details section to enter the prize title and description.

Enter prize title and details

After that, don’t forget to upload prize image which will be prominently displayed with your contest.

Next, you need to choose the start and end date for your contest. We recommend leaving enough time before the start / end date to ensure that you can promote it properly.

Add Actions Users Need to Perform to Join The Contest

Actions are the tasks you want website visitors to perform in order to join the contest. RafflePress comes with a number of actions designed to help you reach your intended goals.

You need to select actions that help you maximize your reach to new audiences as well as existing customers.

For example, if you run a fast fashion eCommerce store, then you would want to increase your Instagram following.

Let’s start adding actions to the contest.

Simply switch to the ‘Actions’ tab from the left menu, and you’ll see a list of actions.

Add actions to your contest

You can click on an action to add it to your contest. It will appear below the prize description section.

You can then click on the individual action to see action settings in the left column.

Action settings

Each action comes with some basic settings. You can set a title, the number of entries users will earn for completing it, allow daily entries, or make an action mandatory.

Apart from these settings, you will also see settings related to specific actions.

For instance, if you want users to visit your Instagram profile, then you will need to enter your Instagram profile URL.

You can add as many actions as you like. Adding more options gives your users more ways to participate, and helps you reach more marketing channels.

RafflePress seamlessly integrates with all the best email marketing services, so you can use it to grow your email list.

Bonus Tip: Prioritize channels based on your campaign goals. For instance, if you wanted to grow your email list, then you need to move it up and make it mandatory.

Prioritize actions by moving them up and down

You can simply drag and drop actions to arrange them in the order you want customers to join in.

Once you are done, don’t forget to click on the ‘Save’ button to store your settings.

Customize WooCommerce Contest Design

Next, you would want to change the appearance of your contest widget so that it stands out.

Simply, click on the ‘Design’ section from the left column and then select a layout, font, and button color for your contest widget.

Design contest

You can also set a background color or image if you want to create landing page for your contest (more on this later in this article).

Once you are satisfied with the design click on the ‘Save’ button to save your progress.

Configure Contest Settings

RafflePress comes with a number of options that give you full control of your contest campaign.

Switch to the ‘Settings’ tab from the left menu and click on the ‘General’ tab. From here you can set basic options for your giveaway including the option to show winners, number of entries, limit signups per IP, and more.

Change giveaway settings

After that, switch to the ‘Giveaway rules’ tab. RafflePress includes a Rules Generator which allows you to easily generate contest rules for your campaign.

Generate contest rules

After that, switch to the ‘Email Verification’ settings. From here you can turn on email verification, which will only accept entries from users who verify their email address.

Turn on email verification

Next, click on the ‘Success tracking’ option. If you want to add Google Analytics or other tracking code like Facebook pixel, then this option allows you to add those scripts.

Success tracking

Next, click on the ‘Success Redirect’ tab. From here you can redirect users to any page after they successfully complete all actions. This could be a WooCommerce product page, a landing page, or simply a thank you page.

Setup redirect

Finally, you’ll reach the social logins section. From here you can turn on social logins and allow users to join the contest by signing in with their Facebook account.

Social logins

Once you are done reviewing settings, don’t forget to click on the Save button to store your changes.

Publish and Add Contest to Your WooCommerce Store

Now that your contest is ready, it is time to add it to your WooCommerce store.

RafflePress makes it super easy to add your giveaway anywhere. There are three ways you can do so.

  • You use the RafflePress block to add giveaway in a blog post or a page
  • You can use shortcode to add it anywhere posts, pages, product pages, sidebar widgets
  • You can also create Giveaway landing page

Let’s check out each of these items.

1. Adding Contest Block to Blog Posts / Pages

Simply create a new post or page in WordPress or edit an existing one. On the edit screen, click on the add new block button and then select RafflePress.

Adding RafflePress contest block

You’ll see RafflePress block appear in the editor. From here, you need to click on the drop down menu in the block settings and select the contest giveaway you created earlier.

Select contest campaign

2. Add Contest Using Shortcode

Shortcodes come in handy when you want to add the contest to a product page, sidebar widget, or with a page builder plugin.

First, you need to edit the contest giveaway and then switch to the ‘Publish’ tab. From here, click on the shortcode option and copy the shortcode you see on the screen.

Copy the shortcode

3. Create a Contest Page in WooCommerce

RafflePress also allows you to give your contest widget its own landing page. You can find the option under the Publish tab while editing your Contest giveaway.

Create landing page

You can launch the landing page settings by clicking on the link. From there you need to create a URL for your landing page. Once done, you can click on the view button to see your landing page in action.

Copy your contest landing page URL

RafflePress will take you to your contest landing page. You can now copy the URL and start promoting it across your marketing channels.

Contest landing page

Promoting Your WooCommerce Contest

Now that you have created and added your WooCommerce contest, it is time to start promoting it.

We recommend adding your contest before it begins and give yourself plenty of time to build anticipation and excitement for the contest.

You can give a shout out to your email newsletter subscribers and spread the word around on your social media profiles. Reach out to influencers in your industry, friends, and family members to help you get the ball rolling.

You can also promote it on relevant online communities and forums. And don’t forget to promote it across your website using a platform like OptinMonster, so that your visitors are aware of it.

Choosing Contest Winners

RafflePress will automatically start your contest on the time you selected in settings and will end it on your selected time as well.

Once the contest has ended, RafflePress can also help you pick a random winner.

Go to RafflePress » Giveaways page and click on the ‘Need Winners’ link next to your contest.

Select winners

The plugin will now ask you how many winners you want to choose. After that, it will randomly pick the winners.

You can then email those users to let them know and provide the necessary information to get their prize.

We hope this article helped you learn how to easily create a WooCommerce contest and build customer loyalty. You may also want to see our expert pick of the best WooCommerce plugins for your online store.

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December 05, 2019 at 07:02PM