Read Content Earning Rule
The Read Content earning rule is an advanced earning rule (previously known as a campaign) that aims to improve your site’s SEO by increasing traffic and click-through rates. It encourages customers to read through your content (such as blogs, infographics, feature stories, etc.) and answer related questions that will earn them rewards. This earning rule is also a great way for you to inform your customers and keep them up to date on your latest products and services.
Creating a Read Content earning rule
Shopify and Shopify Plus
- From your main menu, go toManage Program > Rewards Program.
- Click on Create earning rule.
- Under Advanced select Read content, then click Next.
All other eCommerce platforms
- From your main menu, go toManage Program > Earning Rules.
- Click on Create earning rule.
- Click Select on Read content.
Setting up your Read Content earning rule
Set up your earning rule to associate specific content articles on your site with loyalty points or coupons, and formulate Q&As in the read content earning rule setup page.
Below are the descriptions of each setting found in your earning rule for your reference
Basic settings
- What kind of Reward - Choose the kind of reward that you wish to give to your customers. Reward either a discount coupon or loyalty points, for completing the earning rule. Some fields on the setup change depending on the type of reward that you choose. If you select:
Points
The field "How many points?" will appear when you choose to reward your customers with points. This is where you can enter the number of points to be given to shoppers after completing the earning rule.
Coupon
The field "Which coupon should the customer get?" will appear. You may then select from the dropdown which coupon to apply for the specific earning rule
Initially, the coupon selection is at $ 0.00 as no coupon still exists. You may refer to Creating a Coupon article to learn how to create coupons
- Page URL - This field is where you can add the URL or link to the specific article on your site that you want to associate a reward with.
- Question - This is where you can formulate questions that will be asked to the reader after reading the content article. This will help gauge your customer's understanding and knowledge about the subject of your content.
- Answer - This field will let you enter possible correct answers to your question. The acceptable answers will be limited according to what you put in the answer field on your read content setup.
- Campaign Name - This is the name of the earning rule as it appears on the rewards pop-up or rewards page. By default, the name is set to "Read Content", you may change it according to your preference
- Reward Text - The text that usually appears under the title and shows the customer what they will receive if they participate in the earning rule. The Rewards Text will also be reflected in the Rewards History
- Description Text - The text that appears on the pop-up window after a customer clicks on the earning rule. It gives a brief idea of how a Read Content reward can be earned
- Icon -The default icon for the read content earning rule is a book. However, you can replace it with any other Font Awesome icon
- Call to Action - This appears when your customers click on the read content earning rule option on their Rewards Popup or Rewards Page. The call to action is a message that prompts them to complete the action to receive the reward.
- Already Completed Message - This message will appear once your customers click on an earning rule that they have already completed.
Advanced settings
- Maximum Times Completed Total - The maximum number of participants that can complete the earning rule (E.g. if you set it to 50 only the first 50 customers to finish the earning rule will get the reward)
- Minimum Actions Required - The minimum number of times a user may perform this action.
- Maximum Times Complete Per User - The maximum number of times a single user can participate in this earning rule
- Restrict to VIP tiers - This field will allow you to create an earning rule with specific rewards per VIP Tier
- Display On-Site? - By default, this is toggled to "Yes", meaning that if you save this earning rule after creating/editing, it will be visible on your Rewards Page. Select "No" if you'd like to set up an earning rule that doesn't appear on your Rewards Page
- Schedule Campaign - This will allow you to run a special promotion for a limited period of time or a promotion that recurs daily, weekly, or monthly.