iZooto – Web Push Notifications vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Over 15,000 news publishers, bloggers, enterprise media companies and content creators across the globe trust iZooto as their audience engagement platform. We enable publisher growth by helping them build, engage, grow and monetize their audience. iZooto helps publishers, news websites and bloggers build, engage, and retain your audience using a wide variety of push notifications such as web push notifications, app push notifications (Android and iOS), Messenger push notifications, News Hub for publishers, and even convert your AMP site visitors into your audience. Web push notifications is a permission-based marketing channel. – Push notifications work across devices and form factors. They are delivered on browsers in real-time, even when your users are not on your site. – Notifications are targeted, and highly visible as they are delivered directly to your audience, with impressive adoption rates by end users (CTRs) that vary from 3% to 25% depending upon the editorial appeal of the notification pushed out. App push notifications on the other hand are bite-sized messages sent to users who have installed an app on their mobile device and granted permission. App push notifications are rapidly evolving into a rich and interactive medium. Messenger push notifications help build and engage your audience on Facebook Messenger. Facebook has more than 1 billion active users, giving you an opportunity to tap into that audience and engage them at your will. News Hub is a personalized notification inbox for your website. It provides you with amazing shelf life, that enables readers to interact with push notifications directly from your website whenever they want to. More the clicks, more the page views and more the revenue. iZooto helps you accomplish 3 key objectives: 1. Build your marketing list: Convert your website and AMP site visitors to your audience. With an opt-in rate of up to 7%, you can build a list 30 times faster than email. 2. Understand your audience: Segment your audience based on their location, on-site behaviour, device, and more and improve customer retention 3. Engage and monetize – Send targeted notifications to your audience and drive engagement. Publishers can grow their traffic and monetize their audience by opting in to send ads via push notifications. SUPPORTED BROWSERS iZooto supports push notifications on all leading browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge. However push notifications on iOS on iPhone, iPad and Internet Explorer are not supported. Powerful Features For Publishers One Click Activation – it takes just one click to integrate iZooto with WordPress. Support for your AMP Site – convert your AMP visitors to your audience and utilize the surge in traffic to your content. Manage Notifications from WordPress – send push notifications that get auto-composed to your entire audience when you update or publish a post from your WordPress account. Automated Push Notification – every time you publish something, a notification will be automatically pushed using iZooto’s Zapier integration. You can also create a series of automated notification drips to engage with your audience and trigger action. Schedule Notifications – time your push notifications to be sent one time or on a recurring basis and put user engagement on autopilot. Advanced Targeting – target users according to their interests, behavior, device and location making it possible to share hyperlocal content. Analysis – analyse your audience growth, campaign performance and understand where your audience comes from and how do they access your website. Build your audience through Facebook Messenger – Reach out to a wider target audience, including users on iOS. Notifications are sent to users who have either started a chat with you on Facebook, commented on your Facebook post or have given permission on your website. Success Stories Over 15,000 publishers use iZooto to push out over 200B notifications every month. Leading brands including the likes of Times, Publisher Desk, Network 18, Summit Media, Khaleej Times, Mubasher, and Sanook use iZooto to engage their audience. Our trusted enterprise grade architecture ensures hassle free delivery of your notifications even when you target millions of users at one go. iZooto now contributes up to 15% of total traffic for leading enterprise publishers across markets. In certain cases of publishers such as Philnews and Pricebaba, iZooto generates up to 15% of total revenue. Compared to general purpose push notification services that only scratch the surface of push notifications, iZooto is created from the ground-up to solve core publisher problems at enterprise scale. Testimonial- Customers On WordPress Love Us Jomar, CEO @ PhilNews says – After using iZooto for several days, it made me think that this could be the replacement for the lost traffic from Facebook. Currently, iZooto increases my traffic by more than 20% every month. Check out the PhilNews case study to know how they increased their website sessions and got better page views. Pricing Plans For Publishers iZooto Pricing plans are designed to match your existing business needs and give you functionalities to help you accelerate growth. 1. Monetization Plan: This plan is free and helps you make money by sending native ads to your subscribers, according to your audience’s interest. We work with leading demand partners across the globe and send up to 2 ads every day to the subscribers. 2. Rise: If you are a blogger and ads are not your thing, this plan is best for you, for efficient targeting and automation. The Rise plan helps you grow your audience and keep them engaged. This plan starts at $85/month. -Other pricing plans of iZooto give you access to some of the best Playbooks such as Recover Abandoned Tab Playbook and recover video watch-time Playbook. To know more and to learn about any of our other pricing plans drop us a mail at [email protected]. Resources iZooto help document will help you get started right away. You can also refer to our YouTube channel and go through the product videos to understand how to use the various features. Coming Soon We will soon be launching AI Recommendations for all soon. – Content Recommendation Playbook is powered by Kepler AI to send the most relevant stories to readers based on the articles they had consumed. – Articles that would interest your readers the most are sent to them automatically at a time they are most likely to interact. Support A dedicated support team that assists you across channels – live chat, email, and on-call support. Head to iZooto to start a conversation with our WordPress specialists.

Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!