How to set up site for article marketing

Make separate pages for articles. Boosts their SEO value.

Not sure what your asking... How do you post information on your site + having a squeeze page as your homepage?

isnt this the same as a static page? you can have a static page and then build a custom "current blog post" within the landing page.

There's a little confusion in this thread, and there's some talking-at-cross-purposes, too.

First of all, a "landing page" is simply "any page on which your traffic lands". You get to determine which page(s) of your site are landing pages, by making them the pages linked to elsewhere (e.g. at the end of your widely-published articles), where your targeted traffic will click on a link. Further defined here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7866952

It doesn't matter much. Just make sure - however you do the internal linking - that you never show visitors one thing and search engines another, because Google dislikes that very much, thinks you're up to no good, and may penalize you for it. No "concealed links" or anything like that.

I think you meant to ask something a little different from what you actually asked, here? You intended to ask whether having visitor options additional to the opt-in on a landing page will reduce the proportion of opt-ins, right?

The answer is that it's bound to, really. But that doesn't necessarily make it the wrong thing to do.

You need to start by deciding whether you're using a squeeze page (defined in that same post linked to above, and by Lee above, also) or a non-squeeze page opt-in.

Personally, after doing a lot of 6-month-long split-tests on ths subject, I don't use squeeze pages any more, and have explained why in some detail in a number of posts of which this one will give you the general picture: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7939758

Once you decide that you're an article marketer, and you're attracting article-readers to your site and trying to opt them in, in order to build relationships with them based on your becoming a valued and respected and trusted provider of "content", then all these "SEO problems" about squeeze pages resolve themselves with the realization that "building the biggest possible list" isn't and shouldn't be your objective anyway. You're much better off building instead the list which will produce the most long-term income. In every niche in which I've ever tested it, that hasn't been a squeeze page list. End of "squeeze page problems".

Yes, it's true that it's extremely difficult to rank squeeze pages. Yes, it's true that you shouldn't have links to your other pages on squeeze pages. Yes, it's true that squeeze pages drive away some of the potentially best customers. Who cares? Just use a prominently incentivized opt-in on the landing-page of a content-rich site and all those problems disappear.

You can have the opt-in box itself on every page of the site, simply by putting it in a sidebar. I suggest you don't put the text "prominently incentivizing" the opt-in on every page, though, because that will probably look a little bit "de trop".

Warrior Forum conversations on this subject (especially in the context of "article-rich sites") tend to be a little confusing, I find, because there's so often a kind of tacit assumption that "having your website there for the primary purpose of building a list" means the same thing, and carries the same implications and inferences and solutions to questions as "trying to build the biggest list you can". This isn't actually so, at all, and appreciating that it isn't actually so does tend to clarify many of these related issues.

I don't and wouldn't do either.

I want my articles to be accessible through my site's navigation system by the small minority of visitors who really want and intend to read them (and I want Google to know that they are, too). But they're not there because that's what I want visitors to do, so I'm certainly not "hoping that once they've opted in, the reader goes to the page with the article". I'm hoping that once they've opted in, they check their email and download and read my "free report" immediately, because that's the process for which my website exists.

I suppose it's (just about) better to have some Google traffic than not to have any, and it's true that always publishing all your articles on your own site first and having them indexed there, before they're ever published anywhere else, does confer real, cumulative and helpful SEO advantages. But for an article marketer this is far from a highly significant aspect of one's business.

The static page contain information with no functions, static page is where you just look around and view things. this page will show all the statics that related to your site.