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Tips to Improve The Impact of Your WordPress

Notification Bar Plugin

Notification - An attention grabbing element which is now being used almost

everywhere. You hear, you see, you get notifications from almost every mobile

application, email notifications, etc.. But sending out notification is not

possible for websites.

For them, the way to do it is to have a notification bar on the website. And the

easiest way to have a notification or promotional bar on a WordPress site is to

use a plugin.

Generally, notification bar is used to promote products or offers or any

particular content that the website visitors might be interested in. But having

a notification bar on your site doesn’t necessarily mean that you get the

desired results. There are a certain proven tips and techniques that will help

you improve the impact of your notification bar.

1. Position - You will find notification bars positioned at all sides of the

website, but the most impactful position is at top. Position your

notification bar at top to garner more eyeballs as it the first place where

the users look on your site.

2. Catchy Text - The text on the bar is equally important. Until and unless

you have some catchy text or phrase, you bar is a miss. Normally, words

like offers and new product converts great.

3. CTA Button - Having a CTA on the notification bar allows the user to do

some action which you want. You should also keep in mind to give a

contrasting color to button and highlight it, as it will attract more

people.

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4. Consistency - The color of the bar should be consistent with the color of

the site. This is well help in making the promotional bar blend in with

the site. But should also try to highlight the as it is something you want

your visitors. The consistency of the text on the notification bar should

be added in the flow of the website content. An abruptly added text

could do more bad than good.

5. Auto Scroll Effect - Almost every WordPress Notification Bar Plugin has

this feature. It always the bar to stay at top even if the user scrolls down.

Many a times, this feature is overlooked. You want you bar to stay on

the page even if the user scrolls down. This is a small but important

feature which could prove beneficial.

6. Customization Options - You should choose a plugin that gives you

multiple customization options. Features you should expect from such

kind of plugins could be - collecting email addresses, link to your social

network accounts, tapping into RSS feeds, etc..

7. Responsiveness - Responsiveness is very big factor now-a-days. More

than 50% people use their mobile browsers to open a site and to cater

to those people, you want to have a responsive notification bar. This will

allow the mobile users also you also see what you have in offering.

To conclude we can say that, notification bar has proved its mettle in driving

traffic to a particular offer or product page or any page you wish to.