Webflow is one of the most popular ways to build a website when you don’t have website building experience. With Webflow, it’s easy for individuals and businesses to make a visually striking website and market with built-in integrations. Older content management systems (CMS) can be in-depth, but they can also be complicated. With platforms like Webflow, having a quality website can be more accessible for everyone. So, if you’re using Webflow, it stands to reason that you’d want to be using a podcast player that works great with Webflow and allows you to customize your podcast player to look great on your website.
To cut to the chase: If you’re using Webflow to build your website, you should be using Backtracks as your podcast player. Why? Because Backtracks is just as easy to use, customizable with no coding experience required and intuitive for your listeners. In this blog, we’ll show you how to easily embed our podcast player in Webflow and why Backtracks is the best podcast player overall.
Embedding Backtracks on Your Webflow Site
If you’re using Webflow, it’s a reasonable assumption that you appreciate clean simplicity. That’s what the Backtracks player provides. When you’re putting our player on your Webflow site, you’ll see how easy it is. If you’re able to copy and paste, then you’ll be able to embed our player in Webflow. We’ve designed our player so that you don’t need to be familiar with coding to use it. Here’s what you need to do if you want to embed our player on your Webflow site:
- Open the optimization dashboard in Backtracks.
- Customize your podcast player to perfectly suit your using our customization tools.
- Toggle your preferences. Change everything from download settings and audio transcriptions to sharing preferences and more.
- Copy the embed link from the dashboard.
- Paste the embed link on your Webflow site, wherever it fits best.
- Using just a few lines of code, your new customized, branded podcast player is now on your website. It will work on any page, any device and any platform.
And that’s all the steps that are necessary. We’ve made it extremely easy to embed the Backtracks player, and you can hide your player when you choose or edit it at any time.
Why Choose Backtracks?
Now you know how easy it is to embed the Backtracks player on your Webflow site, but what other reasons are there to choose Backtracks? When you use the Backtracks platform, there are plenty of features that will make your podcast experience better. Here are some of the benefits you can expect.
Tons of Customization Options
First, if you appreciate customization options, Backtracks has them in spades. We provide you with a white-label podcast player. This means our name won’t be anywhere on your player; it will be fully your brand and your style. You can customize the aesthetics any way you see fit to better fit your branding. In addition to aesthetic customizations, you can also customize how your users can interact with our podcast player. You can enable downloads, transcripts, Apple AirPlay, subscribe buttons, sharing buttons and much more. If you want to customize how your audio is presented, you can do that as well. Enable options like increased speed, cut out snippets and more.
Flexible to Fit Your Podcast Needs
Our player was built to work where and how you need it to work. Our player works across all channels. No matter what device, browser, app or hosting provider, you can rest assured that our player will work properly and show up with your correct branding and customizations. If you want to put our player behind a password-protected layer, you can do that as well. Embedding the player works the same either way.
Your users will also be able to share your podcast across all social channels without you having to worry about the branding being affected. Shares of your podcast will always link back to your site, increasing your visits. Your users even have the customization options to share snippets of your audio, making it more relevant to their followers.
Master Your Podcast SEO
The Backtracks audio transcript feature also helps to improve your podcast SEO capabilities. With the transcript being crawlable, Google will be able to read it and rank it accordingly. Your relevant podcast streams will be boosted in Google’s rankings thanks to this unique feature.
Get Access to the Best Podcast Analytics Available
The Backtracks podcast player is at its maximum potential when you combine it with our analytics platform. These two tools are able to seamlessly communicate with each other and give you in-depth podcast analytics that you can’t get anywhere else. You’ll be able to see the number of downloads, how many downloaded episodes are listened to, how long users listen, which episodes are shared and more. Our in-depth analytics will give you unique and actionable insights into your audience, allowing you to mold your message to meet their interests. With this kind of data, your podcast marketing efforts will be launched to an entirely new level. Backtracks analytics are the most advanced podcast analytics on the market, so if you’re looking to enhance your podcast, this is the way to do it.
Installation With No Coding Experience
Of course, the ease of installation is definitely one of the most attractive benefits we have to offer. Installing our player on Webflow, or any other CMS, is a breeze. You don’t need to have any knowledge of coding. You can quickly implement our player with no hassle. On top of this, it doesn’t look half-baked. It’s fully branded and looks like a natural part of your Webflow site.
Backtracks is the best solution for your Webflow site — so why not give it a try?
Ready to Get Started With Backtracks?
If you’re interested in the benefits Backtracks can offer and are ready to give it a try yourself, we’re here to help. If you want to see the benefits for yourself, you can even try our embeddable podcast player for free before making a decision. If you’re interested in taking your podcast to the next level, be sure to inquire about our analytics platform as well.
After you see how engaged your users are with your player and see how easy it is to use, we’re sure that you’ll want to keep using the Backtracks player. Contact us to learn more.
