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For Clickbank Marketing Experts

by Davidoff
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Expert advice appreciated: Your priorities re/ SALES PAGE either on:

a) main domain (eg affluability.com)
b) sub domain (eg pension.affluability.com)
c) directory of domain (eg affluability.com/salespage)

I assume a, b, c, no?

And, if you know, what are the Pros & Cons in terms of Attracting affiliates, SEO, whatever is key?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Douglas
    Not sure what you're asking. What do you mean by "your priority".

    Also, if you're going to have that signature line, you probably shouldn't call yourself a Newbie in your forum title. Just saying.
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  • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
    Don't know what one has to do with the other, but what I meant is
    What's Experts' priorities, preferences, precedence in terms of a, b, c?
    Plus Pros & Cons?

    Better?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    It depends on how many products you are selling under one domain and what kind of information you intend on having on that domain. By that I mean do you intend on providing MORE than just a sales page (which I would recommend).

    If you are selling different types of widgets you might have your main domain called widgets.com. Here you will have all your information about all the widgets you sell. For each product you can have widgets.com/product1 and widgets.com/product2 for each of your product sales pages.

    If you have a blog as well, you can treat your main domain as your 'blog' and still have a sales page as a page off of your main domain, or you can have your main domain and then /blog for your blog and then /product as the sales page for your product.

    So given your choices I would go with C

    As far as affiliates and SEO, I'm not really sure what you are asking? Affiliates won't care as long as your structure, layout, product, and sales page are all in order and quality. SEO won't really matter either.
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    • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
      Thanks Meghan

      And Thanks Bill, excellent!
      Originally Posted by Bill_Z View Post

      So given your choices I would go with C
      As far as affiliates and SEO, I'm not really sure what you are asking? Affiliates won't care as long as your structure, layout, product, and sales page are all in order and quality. SEO won't really matter either.

      Do I understand you right      ? Affiliates (incl. Power/Super/Mega) don't care if a customer lands on a) or b) or c) as per above?
      Although(!) ...
      c) means that a customer is likely to "sneak around" what else is on that domain (by deleting the /blabla at the end in the browser line)
      b) means that a customer might start to edit the browser line, deleting the sub domain part - more unlikely I guess)
      and a) means that the customer can't "sneak around" at all!

      Now "sneak around" can of course be seen as negative: Buying becomes more unlikely if he reads other pages for a while.

      I am asking 'cause I am starting out with Clickbank soon, I have many domains but not one for each product (have many products), and I want to put my sales page there where Super Affiliates will like to see it too.

      On Clickbank it seems all sales pages are on their own (main) domain - which would contradict your preference for c) no?
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      • Profile picture of the author thebrewer
        Originally Posted by Davidoff View Post

        Now "sneak around" can of course be seen as negative
        Taking that one part of one sentence completely out of all context in your post... in my opinion "yes", sneaking is a big fat negative. You have a product. You want people to buy it. Assuming they will fiddle with your URL is probably the least of the things you want to worry about.

        Use a unique URL for your product - and then a blog/whatever to back it up should someone come across your site by chance.

        You want to funnel buyers into your product, not give them then opportunity to look elsewhere. For $10 a pop, a new domain name won't break the bank. Just try not to give the buyer more than one option to click, or URL-manipulate (I just invented that hyphened phrase, so hands off...) his/her way to.
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        • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
          THANK you for your kind responses:
          Originally Posted by thebrewer View Post

          Assuming they will fiddle with your URL is probably the least of the things you want to worry about.
          Ahh good, that does take my worry away, thanks!

          Originally Posted by thebrewer View Post

          Use a unique URL for your product - and then a blog/whatever to back it up should someone come across your site by chance.
          Oh!! I did the opposite: My websites and blogs start on the main domain(s), and NOW (10ys later) I wonder where to put a sales page! No wonder that I don't sell yet!

          Originally Posted by thebrewer View Post

          Just try not to give the buyer more than one option to click
          Yes, that's clear to me: The sales page must be a dead-end! (Although maaany sales pages on Clickbank aren't - those guys can still learn... ;-)

          Originally Posted by ACReno View Post

          Yes, one domain per product. That way is will be easy for you to rank.
          Hmm, I was thinking/contemplating: If yuu put one product per subdomain of a mega domain, would that dramatically increase the visibility of your mega domain ... while customers would still land on the desired landing page?? Just thinking.
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      • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
        Originally Posted by Davidoff View Post

        Thanks Meghan

        And Thanks Bill, excellent!


        Do I understand you right        ? Affiliates (incl. Power/Super/Mega) don't care if a customer lands on a) or b) or c) as per above?
        Although(!) ...
        c) means that a customer is likely to "sneak around" what else is on that domain (by deleting the /blabla at the end in the browser line)
        b) means that a customer might start to edit the browser line, deleting the sub domain part - more unlikely I guess)
        and a) means that the customer can't "sneak around" at all!

        Now "sneak around" can of course be seen as negative: Buying becomes more unlikely if he reads other pages for a while.

        I am asking 'cause I am starting out with Clickbank soon, I have many domains but not one for each product (have many products), and I want to put my sales page there where Super Affiliates will like to see it too.

        On Clickbank it seems all sales pages are on their own (main) domain - which would contradict your preference for c) no?
        OK I see what you are saying. Yes if that is a concern, you can definitely have a separate domain for just the sales page. You can always link to you sales page from your main domain, I don't that's an issue.
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    • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
      Thanks Meghan, right now I have only two points for "confusion"
      What price I set
      And ...see above... where I put the sales page, best
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    • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
      Now, THANKS so much for your kind responses:

      Originally Posted by GoshM View Post

      I suggest that you should use either one domain per product, or build a review site that has pages for each of the products that you are promoting. Also use an autoresponder and capture your visitors email address in return for a free gift or ebook. Make sure to give them value in exchange for their email. You can build an entire business like that if you do it right.
      Yes, I do all of that already. Great tips anyway, everyone should read this. Autoresponders for half a year, each with TRUE VALUE, who has that!? The only one I get like that is (maybe) from Steve Harrison. So it seems, we all can still learn from your advice. (I've only done 10 VALUE autoresponders yet...)
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  • Profile picture of the author ACReno
    Yes, one domain per product. That way is will be easy for you to rank. 3 weeks of SEO work should land you on the first page if the competition is not that high.
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      • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
        Hey, THANKS so much for your kind responses.

        To get it out of the way... Gina, it's the opposite of what you and Ron think. "newbie" is not custom, it's what I chose myself because I am truly(!) a newbie to WF (a war room member too ) AND also a newbie to "real" internet marketing. So I'll leave "newbie" until I feel more comfortable to brag.

        Also, my signature link is to an educational(!) site, not a sales page. For >10ys I've been educating small numbers on the financial Truth, while all of you were much smarter and created tons of sales pages to sell to LARGE numbers.

        - You see again, I AM a newbie to Marketing, honestly. :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
      Thanks Bill! Cyprus, nice, do you know Daniel Wagner? ;-)
      Originally Posted by matty-81 View Post

      I always set my sales pages up on the main domain and then I set up my squeeze page up on "squeeze.html" and my affiliate tools on "affiliates.html" etc. The main domain always houses the sales page.
      Wow, interesting, another one who says that the sales page must be on the main domain (front page), thanks Matty!

      Who has done some systematic testing ("split testing"), where the sales page is best to be put??
      In other words, who has the largest income with his/her method?

      (depends on the products etc too, I know...)
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  • Profile picture of the author Davidoff
    So, does anyone know how this can be done, considering your feedback so far:

    Sales page on XYZ.com
    Affiliate pages, blog, whatever on www.xyz.com/blog (or whatever)
    BUT: all in wp please (cause I need certain plugins and am not a techie)

    I just can't figure out how I tell wp to put my sales page from www.xyz.com/blog/salespage to www.xyz.com!!!???

    In other words, if (as you said) the blog is in a subdirectory, but my salespage must please be within wp (so in the subdirectory too), how do I get this salespage on my main domain XYZ.com

    (re-directing a single page doesn't seem to work/make sense)
    (xyz.com is NOT my domain)

    Any ideas?
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