Blogs Vs Landing Pages?

Use SqueezeTheme, its one of the best, and its worked well for me. As the person above said, you can have a landing page and a blog, which is just fantastic.

Landing pages and blogs both can make a lot of money, but I prefer landing pages because you don't have to regularly add posts to it like a blog.
 
As was mentioned....just because you have 2000 posts doesn't mean you'll get traffic and/or sell things.

I think you need to backup a little and determine what the purpose of your blog or website is going to be. Ask yourself, "Why does your blog/website exist"

I hope you didn't get your 2000 pages in a short period of time....if so, your blog simply won't do well for anything....sorry :) but I'd start over.

You see, anyone can use some autoposting plugins and build a 2000 post blog in no time and Google knows it....so most autoblogs not done carefully are trash.

Learn the mechanics of building a blog, learn the differences between pages and posts.

You can easily use your blog and create a landing page with your blog, make it your index page (the first page that shows up when you type and you could create some categories and SLOWLY post some relevant content to the blog over time.

Lets say you build a blog about Worms....fishing worms :) Your goal is to sell an ebook on how to raise worms.

You can set up categories in your wp blog like this:


  • night crawlers
  • red worms
  • fishing worms
  • big worms
  • small worms
  • raising worms

Set your autoposter to post to these categores....maybe 2 times a week to each category.....and let it post for a month.

By that time, you should get indexed. Do all the traffic tricks...GET LINKs to your site.

Now use the "Page" feature of your wordpress blog and create a salespage for your ebook. Inside wordpress you can make any Page appear as the index page....so you can make your new salespage appear as the index page. People interested in raising worms should start landing on your sales page.

OR

Do the same thing with the Page function but create a landing page that offers a free short report on raising worms. Your landing page would tell of the advantages of raising worms and all the money you can make raising worms. Your landing page would have an optin form so you can collect email and name, the autoresonder sends out the download link for the free worm report...... Now you have their name and email...they are on your list and you can create an email sequence telling them why they need to buy your best selling Worm Book!!! :)

Whether you do the salespage or landing page, all this time your autoblogging plugin, wprobot is adding content to your blog in a random manner....SLOWLY over time. Hopefully your content is relevant. Also, more importantly you are doing articles, or whatever your method of choice is for getting backlinks to your salespage, landing page and some deep linking.

There's many other methods and models of trying to monetize a blog like yours. If your doing adsense or CPA ....you need traffic and have to use the tricks to make people click on your ads.....pretty tough gig these days. But....there's plenty of BHW members making a go of this....keep reading and studying and trying.

Above all, don't worry if you spend a little time and money but your blog turns out to be a dud....it happens to everyone. Just move and start again. You'll succeed if you DON'T QUIT!!!!


Good luck to ya!



This is really good info!

I was curious about setting up a blog and later doing the LP/squeeze page like you mentioned here... but a lot of the squeeze pages I have seen are very simple, they have some text and an email capture, and typically no header or any links of any kind to distract.

If you were to create one of those pages as the home page of the blog, how then would you "link in" to the blog? Or don't you do that? I am a bit confused - can someone maybe post an example of something like this?
 
I have a bunch of blogs without landing pages that look professional, but for my bigger sites, I use HTML landing pages because in that case, the effort it takes to make them look really good is worth it. Anyways, it doesn't matter if your blog is on your home page or on deep url's you'll get just as many spider visits and frequent indexing.
 
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