Are you looking to add a welcome portal to your WordPress blog?

A " Welcome Gates Or welcome portal, is one of the conversion techniques frequently used on the market.

In this article, we will show you how to create a welcome portal in WordPress without affecting SEO.

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What is a Welcome Portal?

A welcome portal is a call to action displayed in full screen before the content is displayed. Often the administrators of WordPress blog use it to quickly grab the user's attention and display a targeted offer to build their email list.

Traditional welcome portal techniques simply redirected users to a new page. Since the user saw nothing else on the screen except the call to action or an advertisement, which ensures maximum conversion. Sound interesting to you? But here is the problem.

Redirecting users to a page they didn't ask for is bad for the SEO and the user experience of your blog. Google actively penalizes blogs that make such redirects instead of showing the requested content.

However, there are WordPress plugins modern ones that display a welcome portal, which allow you to optimize your conversions without affecting the SEO Of your site.

How to add a welcome portal on WordPress

We will be using OptinMonster to create a welcome portal. It's one of the best solutions out there, and we use it on BlogPasCher.

It allows you to create high conversion forms such as: welcome portals, pop-ups exit-intent "," slide-ins Scrolling pages, floating bars, etc. used closely with A / B testing, page level targeting, and collection of conversion data.

Check out our tutorial on this plugin now.

Once you have installed and verified your license, you must click on the button to create a new " optin "(Create New Optin).

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This will redirect you to the OptinMonster application where you can select and design your welcome portal.

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First you need to provide a title to your optin and select your WordPress blog. If you haven't added your blog yet, then you can click " Add a website "(Add a website).

Select the value « Fullscreen For the option Select your design ". This will show you a theme of a welcome portal.

By clicking on the theme, the personalization interface will be activated.

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In the personalization interface, you will be able to see the live preview of the welcome portal. You can change colors, text, add buttons, and fully customize your welcome portal.

When should I view the Welcome Portal?

Timing is crucial when you want to display a fullscreen or interstitial welcome portal. Unlike other solutions available on the market, OptinMonster gives you a wide range of behavioral controls that help you increase your conversion rate.

Although we use OptinMonster's full screen for our welcome portal, you may decide to turn the portal into an interstitial ad, and even a way out.

All of this can be chosen in the OptinMonster customization interface.

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OptinMonster also comes with referrer detection. This allows you to show or hide the welcome portal for users from a certain domain. You can explicitly show your welcome portal to users who have come through social media or Google searches for example.

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Once you have finished configuring your optin, you can simply click on the "Save and exit the personalization interface" button (Save and exit the customizer).

How to display your welcome portal on WordPress

After designing your welcome portal, there is just one more step in bringing it to life on your WordPress blog. Just click on the OptinMonster icon on your dashboard and then click on the refresh optins button.

You will see the optin you just created added to the list. Click on " Edit Output settings "(Change output settings) Below your optin.

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This will show you the output settings for your welcome portal. Just click on " Enable this optin And choose a display setting (such as posting to whole blog, posting to specific posts, posting to specific categories, etc..).

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Once you are done, click on the button Save settings ».

Your full screen welcome portal is now available on your blog. You can verify this by opening your blog on a new window in private browsing on Google Chrome.

We hope that this tutorial has been of great use to you. Do not hesitate to contact us if you do not understand a point of this tutorial.