Increase traffic with newsletters
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Build your relationship with your best audiences
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Understand your newsletter traffic with News Consumer Insights
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Newsletter subscribers:
- Are 10X more likely to become subscribers
- Open 22% of newsletters
- Visit twice as many pages as non-subscribers
News Consumer Insights analyzes your Google Analytics data to help you understand how much traffic your newsletters bring in and how to grow newsletter subscribers.
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See how your newsletters are doing in three steps
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STEP 1
In News Consumer Insights, navigate to Reader Engagement and scroll down to Traffic Sources.
STEP 2
Hover over the blue bubble that says Newsletters to see how many readers are coming from your newsletters.
If you don’t have newsletters, or <1% of your traffic comes from newsletters, a blue bubble will not display.
STEP 3
Click View Recommendation to see if you should focus on newsletter traffic.
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Keep newsletter subscribers longer by being transparent
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The Google News Initiative Subscriptions Lab found that newsletter subscribers were 10X more likely to become paid subscribers.
This means you’re more likely to have a longer relationship with a newsletter subscriber than with an average reader.
Start your relationship on the right foot by being transparent about what newsletter subscribers can expect from you.
💡 Best practices
- Communicate the newsletter’s topic and frequency
- Offer subscriber or donor-only newsletters
- Confirm email addresses
- Write personal intros
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Make sign-up easy with buttons
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Buttons let you take actions with a single tap, like helping your reader sign up for a newsletter. Click-through rates for buttons with calls-to-action average 5%, but the highest performing buttons can reach 70%.
Placing sign-up buttons throughout your site increases the chances they’ll sign up, especially when it’s next to your best content.
💡 Best practices
- Enable autofill
- Ask for email address only
- Use a contrasting color for sign-up boxes
- Use three words or fewer, such as “Sign Up”
- Use a warm color in your button, like red, orange, or yellow
- Place buttons halfway through articles
- Place a floating action button
- Place a newsletter sign-up box on your homepage
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Get higher open rates with shorter subject lines, images, and more
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For news publishers, the average newsletter open rate is 22%.
💡 Best practices
- Highlight one story in the subject line
- Show up better on mobile by using subject lines that are 38 characters or fewer
- Add your mission or slogan in the header
- Add an image after the headline
- Use a button to link to articles, other newsletters, or subscriptions at the end of the newsletter
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