As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for trusting Pagecloud to be a part of your journey. Whether you’ve built your very first website with us, have been managing your website for several years, or used our tools to connect with your audience, you’ve made this year unforgettable!

We’re proud to be a small Canadian company with a big vision: to make the world of website building more accessible, flexible, and empowering. Every feature we launch and every improvement we make is driven by our mission to give you the freedom to express your brand identity and grow your business online.

This year, we’ve introduced some incredible new features and resources to help you do just that. From major product launches to helpful guides, we’ve worked hard to support your success, and we couldn’t have done it without your trust and feedback.

Here’s a look back at the milestones we’ve achieved together in 2024, and a sneak peek at what’s to come in 2025.

More Clicks and Conversions with Pagecloud Popups!

In spring 2024, we introduced one of our most exciting features to date: Pagecloud Popups and Banners.

In addition to being a highly requested feature for Pagecloud users, this feature marked the first time we launched a tool that could be used on websites not hosted on Pagecloud. Now, whether your website is built on Pagecloud, Squarespace, Wix, Framer, or another platform, you can take advantage of our easy-to-use, highly customizable popup builder to get more customers. 

Pagecloud Popups include a wide range of templates including our Popup Design Kits. We made the design kits to help you view the full range of popup and banner capabilities. Check out our favourite a couple of our favourite design kits!

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Since the launch, approximately 500 of our users have taken advantage of Pagecloud Popups! We absolutely love seeing your designs and clever use of the tool. 

Popups and banners were created to help you increase conversions on your website, lower bounce rates, and deliver more value to your customers. Check out our guide on designing effective popups, or watch our video on creating your first popup! 

More Design Control with Layouts

Layouts are the future of website building in Pagecloud! Responsive, easy to manage, and totally flexible, layouts allow you to create more complex designs that look great on all screen sizes.

The world of website building is constantly evolving, and today, a responsive website is a desired choice for many business owners, designers, and agencies. Formerly known as Auto Groups, we relaunched Layouts to be more flexible, easier to use, and much more powerful. 

Check out our tutorial video on how to create your first layout! 

Dive Deeper with Advanced Analytics and Custom Events

Popups can increase conversions, Layouts help with your design, and Analytics help you track everything so you know what works. If you haven't checked out Pagecloud Analytics, we'd recommend taking a look at how simple and effective our built-in, privacy first analytics are. 

This year, we expanded the analytics dashboard to bring you a closer look at your performance. You can now see your analytics break down per page. This includes top page referrals, events, and demographics of your users. 

You can also set custom date ranges in order to compare your site's performance over important periods or campaigns. 

We also recently introduced Custom Events! Your analytics include our default events (button clicks, page scrolls, etc.), but now you can create custom events so you can track specific actions. Custom events can help you track your website goals and calculate conversion rate of specific pages.

More Enhancements and Features

Among our biggest releases, we also worked on small improvements in the editor and dashboard to bring your better usability and flexibility. There is a lengthy list of enhancements that we won't include here, so check out past product updates for more comprehensive lists. Here a few highlights:

Updated templates 

We've refreshed our templates for a more modern feel. We've also updated each template to use the latest Pagecloud features such as project colours and FAQ components. 

Our templates are now using mostly Auto Columns and Layouts, which means they look great on all screens, they are easier to manage in mobile, and they are fasted to expand and edit.

New this week! Hide pages from search engines

A highly requested feature, we've added the ability to block specific pages to be indexed by search engines. This allows you to create landing pages for direct linking that will not be picked up by Google. Please note that unfortunately not all browsers respect no-index tags.

Add alt text to blog images 

Now you can add alt text to blog images! A great way to boost your SEO and make your blog more accessible. Simply click on your blog image to add descriptive text. 

Improved control strips and breadcrumbs

Control strips are an important part of your editor experience. When you click on Sections, Columns, or other objects in your editor, a strip of buttons appears that allows you to take specific actions such as duplicate, delete, edit, etc. 

We improved control strips to include more commonly used actions, creating a more intuitive editor and faster workflow. Breadcrumbs allow you to better understand which layer you are currently ending. Objects can live inside Layouts, which live inside Columns, which live inside Sections. Breadcrumbs help you know exactly what you're editing. 

In the above image you can see you've selected an Auto Column inside a Section. Breadcrumbs live at the top of your editing menu.

Resources and Guides

While our primary focus is ensuring you can design and launch a custom website without code, we are also committed to providing you with resources to help you create an effective website, and grow your business online after launch. Here are some of our favourite new resources!

Website prep guide

We created the ultimate website copy prep guide to help you write more impactful content on your website. This guide includes a UVP statement builder, an audience persona template, and guide to structuring your homepage to maximize conversions and build audience trust.

Webinars and workshops

This year we started hosting live webinars and workshops to help you get the most out of your Pagecloud editor. We covered the basics like Section and Column building, and dove into more advanced building with Layouts. 

Stay tuned for our next webinar in the new year! 

Launch guide

We recently created the ultimate website launch guide. This guide has everything you need to ensure a successful launch of your website including SEO details, custom domain connection, and content review.

New help centre!

Now you can get access to all our tutorials and important help articles from inside your dashboard in our help centre. Watch webinars, tutorial videos, get access to our launch guide, custom domain guide, and other popular articles.

Partnerships

Pagecloud is proud to partner with educational institutions and accelerator networks to empower the future generation of entrepreneurs and business owners. Interested in partnering with Pagecloud? Send a message to partners@pagecloud.com and we'll get back to you!

Education

This year marked 13 semesters working with the Telfer School of Management's digital marketing class! We're always so happy to support their personal branding project, and love seeing what each student can create from Pagecloud. 

We also partnered with Ashbury College! Students at Ashbury learned how to launch their online portfolio on our platform. 

Accelerator programs

Pagecloud is offered as a perk for several accelerator and incubator programs including Invest Ottawa, L-Spark, YSpace, and Inovia. This year we hosted workshops to help support the use of the platform and see new business owners succeed online. 

Affiliates

Did you know we have an affiliate program? This year our affiliate program continued to grow! Our affiliates are dedicated to showcasing the power of Pagecloud and bringing new customers to the platform. 

You can sign up for our affiliate program and earn 20% recurring revenue for every new sign up.

Coming in 2025...

2025 is going to be a good one! Here's a sneak peak at a couple things we have cooking at Pagecloud HQ.

Responsive editor

We're transitioning our editor to be fully responsive, so you can see exactly what your website will look like on all browsers. The responsive editor eliminates the need for a mobile editor as it will ensure your content resizes and reflows on all screen sizes. 

Project fonts

A highly requested feature... Project fonts are in the works! Similar to project colors, project fonts will allow you to set and update fonts across your entire website, eliminating the need to individually change your font style for each text box. 

Crafted by Pagecloud

We're extending our services to include design, site migration, and site management including SEO, content, and more. With Crafted by Pagecloud, you can launch the website of your dreams and get help growing your online presence. Get dedicated service hours from our knowledgable and friendly team. 

Fill out our survey to receive a 20% discount on our services when we launch. 

Thank you!

Once again, the whole team at Pagecloud would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who has supported the Pagecloud platform this year. We hope you have a great holiday season! See you next year.