The Complete Guide to Embeds: Part Three

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14 March 2019
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For many businesses, showcasing digital publications on their own website is a great business solution. Clients can enjoy the convenient presentation and interactive features of catalogs, magazines and more all while browsing the brand’s site.

To help you take advantage of this powerful tool, we’ve created a complete guide to embedding your publications!

In part three of this series, we will explain how to track the statistics of your embedded publications and tips for mobile responsiveness.

Measuring Performance

Once your publications are available on your site, looking exactly as intended, they’re ready for visitors to read, click and explore. It’s also time to start measuring the performance of your embedded publications.

Understanding the sources of your audience is easy with Calaméo’s advanced statistics. All users have access to Source data in the Statistics tab of their accounts, which shows the percentage of your publications’ views that take place on Calaméo, in embeds and from a Library Widget.

Our PREMIUM and PLATINUM plans allow you to break down Source data across a range of other stats. For example, you may wish to see what percentage of readers are clicking links in your embedded publications or whether embedded publications are read for longer.

Mobile Responsiveness

Your Calaméo account statistics will also help you to understand how readers prefer to view your embedded publications: on their desktops, smartphones or tablets. If you notice a high percentage of viewers using mobile devices, you should consider ensuring that your embed is fully responsive.

While our viewer is always responsive on mobile, it’s important that your site is set up for a responsive embed using the Calaméo embed code. Each website is different and has its own specific needs, but here are the basics:

  • Define the width attribute in the iFrame tag of your publication’s embed code as 100%
  • Check that the container for your Calaméo embed code is correctly configured for responsive display

It may also be a good idea to test the display of your publication’s links, videos and other interactive elements on mobile so that they are comfortably sized for readers to enjoy on smaller screens.

That brings us to the end of our Complete Guide to Embeds series! You should now have all the information you need to make the most out of your embedded publications.

Missed the previous entries? No problem: catch up with parts One and Two to learn embed basics and how to customize your embeds. Or download our Complete Guide to Embeds for the fully illustrated tutorial.

Have you embedded a Calaméo publication on your blog or website? We’d love to see your best work! Tag us @calameo on Facebook and Twitter or on Instagram @calameo_publishing.

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Browse our new Complete Guide to Embeds Tutorial!

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16 April 2020

A great way to show off your digital publications is by making them a part of your website. Whether your online home is a small blog or a sprawling site, it’s easy to include documents published with Calaméo. Thanks to our advanced conversion technology and sophisticated HTML5 viewer, embedding publications can be as simple as hitting copy then paste.

However, you can always go beyond the basics with Calaméo. To help you make the most out of embedding your publications, we’ve collected all of our best tips into one handy Embeds Tutorial!

In this tutorial, you’ll find detailed information about four important aspects of successfully embedding your Calaméo publications:

  • What an embed is and when to use them
  • How to customize the look
  • Where to find viewership statistics
  • Best practices for embeds on mobile

Plus, plenty of examples and illustrations show you exactly how to get the results you want for your own publications.

The full Embeds Tutorial is available for you to browse, print or download below. We hope it helps inspire you to try incorporating your publications onto your website! And stay tuned for more great tutorials coming to Calaméo this year.

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How to add links to your publications on Calaméo: the video tutorial

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24 October 2024

Do you want to make your digital publications more interactive and dynamic? Adding links to your publications on Calaméo is a simple and effective solution for enhancing your readers’ experience. With links, you can guide your audience to external pages, or additional resources, all at the click of a button. In this article, we present our video tutorial “How to add links to your Calaméo publications”, a step-by-step guide to easily integrate external links into your online documents and maximize their interactive potential.

Why add external links to your digital publications on Calaméo?

Adding external links to your digital publications is an effective way of making your documents interactive and captivating for your readers. This feature enhances the user experience by offering the possibility of accessing additional resources without leaving the publication. Whether you’re publishing a catalog, corporate brochure or magazine, external links can direct your audience to a website, purchase pages, detailed articles or explanatory videos, enhancing the reach and usefulness of your content.

The benefits of adding external links to your Calaméo publications

Integrating external links into your Calaméo publications offers a number of key advantages, all of which enhance the quality and performance of your digital documents:

  • Enhanced browsing: By inserting external links, you give your readers easy access to complementary external content that can enrich their understanding of the subject. They can consult additional resources, read more detailed articles or explore partner offers directly from your publication.

  • Increased engagement and interactivity: External links are a great way to encourage your readers to explore further. By directing your audience to relevant sites or additional resources, you stimulate their interest and prompt action.

  • Track performance with Calaméo statistics: Calaméo not only lets you add external links easily, but also track their performance with its integrated statistics functions. You can measure the number of clicks generated by your external links directly from your dashboard. This data is invaluable for analyzing the effectiveness of your content and adjusting your strategy according to the results.

READ MORE : Analytics made easy: Track your publications on Calaméo

These advantages make adding external links a key feature for enhancing your digital publications. You can transform your documents into truly interactive tools, while offering your readers a more fluid and enriching reading experience.

A video tutorial to guide you: How to add external links to Calaméo

The good news? Thanks to Calaméo’s intuitive interface, adding external links to your publications is simple. To help you get the most out of this feature, we’ve put together a detailed video tutorial that guides you step-by-step through how to insert external links into your Calaméo publications with ease.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this tutorial:

  • Where to find our “EDITOR” tool.
  • How to select clickable areas on your pages.
  • How to add external links to websites or complementary resources.

Calaméo’s intuitive interface lets you add these links quickly and easily, without the need for advanced technical skills.

Don’t hesitate to activate the subtitles (5 languages are available).

Read our Help Center article: How can I add links to my publications using the Calaméo Editor?

Conclusion

Adding external links to your Calaméo publications is a simple and effective way of making your documents more interactive and dynamic. Whether you want to redirect your readers to online resources or provide them with additional information, this feature is an invaluable asset.

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