Need help to make my homepage a squeeze page

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Hi folks

How do I make my homepage a landing page? Like the one in Official Double Your Dating | David DeAngelo's Double Your Dating
I need my homepage to be a landing page with navigation bars on top or at the side.

Does optimize press or profits theme allow you to do that?
#homepage #make #page #squeeze
  • Profile picture of the author Mosa
    I believe that by definition, if you have a nav bar its no longer considered a squeeze page .
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  • Profile picture of the author Xavier Tan
    yes it is. if you wanna run google PPC, you need it
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    Are you a newbie who wants to kickstart your sales ASAP?
    Do you have a killer product but lack the cash to hire a top-notch copywriter to help you rake in the profits you deserve?

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  • Profile picture of the author TheInternet
    Smashing Mag has a long list of good themes, some of which are landing page themes: Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition - Smashing WordPress

    SM actually has a lot of lists of themes. I use Holding Pattern for the project in my signature. Surprisingly good for a free theme. You can probably add bars and stuff into it, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of a landing page?
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  • Profile picture of the author PAFoster
    Originally Posted by Xavier Tan View Post

    How do I make my homepage a landing page?
    Xavier, login to your wp-admin.
    On the side bar, open up 'Settings' Click the 'Reading' option.
    At the top will then be the setting for your homepage.

    By default the homepage is just your recent posts, but you will see now that you can select to have a 'page' as the homepage. Just select the page that you want and that is what wil be displayed to your vistors as the landing page.

    If you want to use this a squeeze page like the one you gave as an example then thats fine, but I would strongly suggest you used video as well in order to get the attention of the vistor.

    Just text and a graphic of the free ebook you may b giving away in return for a sign up, won't be enough in this case, since there will be navigation which will distract and you'll have vistors clicking links.

    You have a few of options:

    1) use a video.
    2) find a plugin that will allow you to create a stand alone blank page with no navigation
    3) find a theme that does the same thing as @TheInternet has suggested (though you will then be tied to the theme which may not be able to do the other things you want or not be the right colour etc.)
    4) find a plugin that will allow you to create squeeze/sales/OTO pages as part of your blog.
    - there may well be some free ones with limited features, but others like WP Sales Engine ® - WordPress Sales Letters, CPA-, Squeeze-, OTO-, Landing Pages... are fully featured and don't interfer with your theme. they are completely customisable to look like real sales pages etc, as well as providing such things as terms/disclaimers/ pages etc. which again you would want with navigation. basically such a plugin, although pluged into wordpress, effectively hides the blog part of the site until you need it until you have want you want from the vistor.

    Hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author PAFoster
      Oops forgot the negative!

      Originally Posted by PAFoster View Post

      which again you would *NOT* want with navigation.
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  • Profile picture of the author yamphy
    Also, Optimizepress is a good wp plugin where you can create squeeze pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author PAFoster
    Authority Pro 2.0 Premium Wordpress Marketing Suite is another one. It's a complete solution, theme and plugins to do the whole lot. Good - I have it - but the actual 'theme' is bland and I found there were things I couldn't do that I needed to do, so I reverted back to not using it. May do with another project.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mauricio Lopez
    With a default WordPress blog setup, the front page (“Home”) of your blog will display the latest posts. You can change this so readers see a static page instead, and see your posts on a different page.

    1.Click Pages->Add New in your Dashboard.

    2.Title this page “Home” (you can, of course, name it whatever you like).

    3.Type the content you want displayed on the front page of your blog. Publish that page.

    4.Write another new page.

    5.Title this page “Posts.” (Or “blog” if you want sitename.com/blog)

    6.You don’t need to type any content, because it will not be displayed. Publish the page.

    7.Click Settings ->Reading on the left menu in your Dashboard.

    8.You will see the following options. Set yours to look like this:

    Front Page Displays
    Your latest posts
    A static page (select Below) - (click on this one)

    Front page: home
    Posts page: posts

    After making these changes, posts will no longer show on the front page of your blog. The static page “Home” will show there. Visitors will need to click on the link to “Posts” in your pages list to see your latest posts.

    Hope this helps...
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