Add a Scrolling Announcement Bar to Your Link-in-Bio Page
A promo, a sale deadline, or a shipping update deserves more visibility than one more block in the scroll. Here's how a ticker bar puts it in front of every visitor, automatically.
By Keepp Team
Some information deserves to be seen by literally everyone who lands on your page, not just the people who happen to scroll far enough to reach the block it’s in. A limited-time sale ending tonight, a shipping delay, a “booking for December is now open” notice — these are time-sensitive enough that burying them halfway down a page means most visitors never see them at all.
A ticker bar solves this by putting a message in constant, low-effort motion at the top of your page — visible the instant someone lands, not something they have to scroll to find.
What it actually is
A ticker is a single scrolling line of text, moving continuously across the page — think of it as a stripped-down version of the news ticker at the bottom of a broadcast, sized for a single message rather than a rotating feed. You write one message, and three settings control how it behaves: direction (right-to-left or left-to-right), speed (slow, normal, or fast), and whether it pauses on hover so a visitor who wants to actually read it — rather than catch it in motion — can stop it by holding their cursor or finger over it.
That’s the whole feature. It’s deliberately not a carousel of multiple rotating messages or a dismissible cookie-style banner — one message, always visible, no configuration beyond how it moves.
What actually belongs in one
The ticker earns its place at the top of the page, so it should carry something worth that placement — not filler. A few patterns that work well:
- A deadline. “Black Friday pricing ends Sunday at midnight” creates real urgency in a way that’s easy to miss if it’s just one more line in a product description further down the page.
- A status update. “Currently booking for January — February slots open now” or “Orders placed after the 20th ship after the new year” — information a visitor needs before they commit to anything else on the page.
- A one-line offer. “Free shipping on orders over $50” or “First session free for new clients” — short enough to read mid-scroll, valuable enough to change a visitor’s decision.
What doesn’t belong: anything that needs more than one sentence to make sense, or a message so permanent it stops meaning anything — a ticker that always says the same thing forever starts blending into the background exactly like a static block would.
Setting it up
Add a ticker block from your page editor, write the message, and pick a direction, speed, and hover behavior that fits your page’s overall pace — a slower scroll reads more easily but takes up a visitor’s attention longer; a faster one catches the eye without demanding it. It sits wherever you place it in your block order, though putting it near the top of the page is what gives it the “seen by everyone” advantage that makes it worth using in the first place.
Update it whenever the message changes — a sale ending, a new booking window opening — the same way you’d update any other block. There’s no separate system to manage it in.
Where to start
If there’s one thing on your page right now that every visitor should see regardless of how far they scroll, that’s the message that belongs in a ticker. Style your page to match your brand, then add a ticker with whatever’s most time-sensitive right now.
Add a ticker bar to your page at keepp.link — free to start.