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Turning Word Press Blog into Sales Page?

by Yu Hong
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I've had a word press blog that has been idle for now, and I'll have a product ready for launch probably within a month.

I was wondering, since I need a website with a sale page to sell my product (ebook btw), can I just convert my wordpress blog into a sales page?

How would SEO come into play here? Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryPabelate
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    No, now one page sites are not liked by Google so you have to think of this.
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    • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
      Originally Posted by MaryPabelate View Post

      No, now one page sites are not liked by Google so you have to think of this.
      I see... I actually just saw a page ranked number 1 with just one page, and an about page. guess I can try that out
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    • Profile picture of the author scrofford
      Originally Posted by MaryPabelate View Post

      No, now one page sites are not liked by Google so you have to think of this.
      Who cares about what Google thinks? If you are depending only on Google for traffic, you will eventually be very disappointed! Second, there are quite a few ways you can convert your WP site to a sales page and NOT have problems with Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author shintaiguy
    Another option is optimize press which gives great versatility, I had a good look at premise but decided to go with OP. Depends on what you are willing to invest in your business as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author learningprocess
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    yes you should convert your wordpress to a sale page. It is very easy to do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
      Originally Posted by learningprocess View Post

      yes you should convert your wordpress to a sale page. It is very easy to do it.
      I'm still a newbie, hopefully in the near future this becomes easy for me too!
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  • Profile picture of the author ByEdvin
    Hello.
    I had the same problem a while ago. I found a wp-plugin that lets you hide a page so you dont need to turn the whole blog to one sells page.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It's not a big deal, one way is to edit the WP theme index.php file with the sales page html.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    I second optimize press. It will give you all the bells and whistles to make a stunning graphic designed sales pages. You can still be active on your blog and reap the SEO efforts as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
      Originally Posted by jamesrich1 View Post

      I second optimize press. It will give you all the bells and whistles to make a stunning graphic designed sales pages. You can still be active on your blog and reap the SEO efforts as well.
      Sounds great, is optimize press something I need to download. One of those "plug ins" for wordpress correct?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Lol,

    It's like a 20min. job If you know basic html & already have the html for the squeeze page.
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  • Profile picture of the author marcuslim
    Don't forget that static html pages can co-exist with wordpress. You can always install your sales page into a folder and it will work alongside your wordpress installation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Yeah it's possible. I have a free Wordpress installer with my web hosting provider. And i wanted to turn my blog into a one-page letter, cause i dont know jack about Wordpress... except just how to use it for selling products.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
    looks like I have plenty to learn... back to the grind. thanks everybody
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  • Profile picture of the author owenlee
    Yes you can convert it...you can put it on www.youpage.com/salespage.htm if you want...then you can have more products in the future...

    That is one of the options
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    • Profile picture of the author markstonepublishing
      I would definitely not convert the blog to a sales page. A couple options are to create a subpage on the blog that is the sales letter, and then have posts in the blog internally link to that.

      Option 2 is to have the sales page on its own URL, and don't worry about trying to rank your sales page at all in Google, because Google does not likey one bit. So just have the blog point to the sales page as one of your traffic sources to your sales page. The key here is ONE of your traffic sources. Meaning you need several to appropriately drive traffic to your sales page.

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  • Profile picture of the author gatorx
    Now your are not talking about wordpress.com right? Where you can create blogs for free. Because at wordpress.com you are disallowed from commercializing your blog, unless you count the WordAd service that they offer ( for that you need to buy a custom domain).
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    • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
      Originally Posted by gatorx View Post

      Now your are not talking about wordpress.com right? Where you can create blogs for free. Because at wordpress.com you are disallowed from commercializing your blog, unless you count the WordAd service that they offer ( for that you need to buy a custom domain).
      Mine wasn't free... I paid for hosting by bluehost I believe...
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  • Profile picture of the author ponyboy
    For a free theme, try to google salespressor. I use that sometimes, great simple theme easy to use
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  • Profile picture of the author UAS Mayhem
    Originally Posted by Yu Hong View Post

    I've had a word press blog that has been idle for now, and I'll have a product ready for launch probably within a month.

    I was wondering, since I need a website with a sale page to sell my product (ebook btw), can I just convert my wordpress blog into a sales page?

    How would SEO come into play here? Thanks!
    It's quite easy to turn your wordpress site into a sales page.However for maximum profit and to convert better.I would suggest you write related articles and give it a blog feel.But in every article, make a connection to your eBook.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
    hmm seems like salespressor is no longer free for download... after I watched the whole video on how good it is.. DAMN!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
      Originally Posted by aiaiai View Post

      Was the ref-link really necessary?

      @OP: Don't worry, it's not that much you have to learn. Perhaps you should start with the vocabulary so you won't be confused in the future when people start throwing terms like "salespage", "squeeze page", "landing page", etc. to you

      If you have the cash I would go for a commercial solution because then you don't have to struggle with all the complicated stuff.

      I learned all the stuff the "hard way" and it took me some time...
      I'm short on money so I'll have to learn everything the hard way too... can u give me some tips as to how you did it? Just lurk through the forums and read books I assume?
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      • Profile picture of the author ajbarnes777
        I use 2 things for squeeze pages and sales pages. One is free and the other is paid.

        The free one is WP Optins (which is a plugin) and the paid one is OptimizePress (which is a theme). Both of them are great in different ways. WP Optins is great if you want to get up a quick and to the point squeeze page or sales page, and OptimizePress is great for a more advanced squeeze page or sales page (graphics, powerful features, etc.).

        You could always start off with a free (but quality) option like WP Optins, and if you want, upgrade to a more feature packed paid Wordpress sales page theme later.
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        • Profile picture of the author Matida
          You can also use Salespress Pro as a theme, which was released a few weeks ago as a WSO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yu Hong
    Thanks everyone <3 much appreciated
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