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Squeeze as main domain OR NOT?

by Caleb D Miller
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Question, question... !!

Hi guys, hope you're all kicking butt today.

***SHOULD I... make my squeeze page the main root domain (ex) mydomain.com AND THEN have a blog at mydomain.com/blog?

OR

***Should I put the squeeze page in a folder (ex.) mydomain.com/optinnow

---MY FEARED CONSEQUENCES---

I'm just plain scared that if I do the first way that google will never allow my site to get good rankings because the root domain is a squeeze page?

My thanks for your thoughts!
#domain #main #squeeze
  • Profile picture of the author Derek S
    I have gone down two roads in the past with squeeze pages...

    I will put my squeeze page on a individual page linked like www.mydomain.com/ppc and this way you can track what sources of traffic convert opt ins. So if I wanted to send them to my squeeze page from Twitter I would have a www.mydomain.com/Twitter

    The second method I have used was getting my same main domain but the .net version and hosting my squeeze page their. Once they opt in I send them to the main .com sales letter...

    Hope that helps
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    • Profile picture of the author sirtom
      I'd also recommend the main domain to be the content hub, with squeeze pages in folders. Generally I've found it's bad for PPC, and may hinder your organic rankings.

      Trey Smith also recommends to go that route. He's a cool dude and makes millions, so I value what he has to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author activetrader
    It depends on how you are going to promote your squeeze page. For instance if you are promoting your squeeze page through videos on video sharing sites you should make your sq.pg on your home page and make a blog separately. If you are promoting through PPC then it doesn't matter because your visible URL will still be your domain name but you can send PPC traffic to any page within that domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author activetrader
    Originally Posted by cdmiller87 View Post

    I'm just plain scared that if I do the first way that google will never allow my site to get good rankings because the root domain is a squeeze page?
    This is SO UNTRUE! I have one site on which the home page xxxx dot come redirects into a ClickBank affiliate link, and all my content is on xxxx dot com/blog; and that blog comes up on the first page of Google for multiple keywords
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