WP Question- How to Make your .com an squeeze page, and your blog a .com/blog?

14 years ago

You can go to WORDPRESS>>SETTINGS>>READING and set homepage to static page, and static page be your um. squeeze page.

Sorry, half asleep - haven't checked this and verified, so if it doesn't work I can look tomorrow

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Luis Carrillo 14 years ago

Thanks Celeb for the quick response,
I have done that in the past, and it would work if i just wanted to use my wordpress as an squeeze page

but what I am wanting to know is how to make the blog with the .com/blog/ extension
and also have the squeeze page static in the main url(.com) like you said

anyway thanks, and look forward to your help tomorrow
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OnlineMarketingSys

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Luis Carrillo

Hello everyone, i have a wordpress question

How to Make your .com an squeeze page, and your blog a .com/blog?

How do you Separate an squeeze page from a blog

for example, this blogger:

he has his squeeze page on his main url: theabsexpert .com/
(I cant put urls yet)...
and he has this page as his blog: theabsexpert .com/blog/

he has the extension /blog/ ...after the .com

How can i do that?

i want to have an squeeze page in the main url, and a blog with mydomain .com/blog

can somebody show me?

Can i just change this in the main wordpress dashboard?

-I know how to upload the squeeze page trough FTP into the main url, but how can i get the /blog/ to use as my blog?

thanks in advance

Hope my question makes sense

Yeah if both your squeeze page and blog are running on wordpress its fairly simple.

Now if you have a static html squeeze page, and a seperate wordpress blog. You would instead create your blog in the /blog directory when installing wordpress.

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Caleb Spilchen

14 years ago

make blog a category, and set your URLs (Canocol) to just /%title%/ or something to that effect. (or you could do the file option - I'm trying the easy route.

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Luis Carrillo

14 years ago

@OnlineMarketingSys can you explain to me how to do it, as you said it was simple?

@celeb

make blog a category, and set your URL s (Canocol) to just / %title %/ or something to that effect. (or you could do the file option - I'm trying the easy route.

i don't get it,
i understand how to make a category, but how do i set the UR Ls (Canocol) to just /%title%/ ?

and what does Canocol mean?

sorry I am not technical at all

appreciate the help tough

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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Luis Carrillo

@OnlineMarketingSys can you explain to me how to do it, as you said it was simple?

Upload your squeeze page as "index.html" to your main public_html folder.

Make a folder named "blog" in the public_html folder.

Install WordPress in the "blog" folder instead of the public_html folder.

URLs are not magic. They're folder and file names just like on your PC. If you have a file in "My Documents" and you want it to be in "My Documents\Work Files" instead, what do you do?

You make a folder named "Work Files" and then you put that file in it.
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  @ CDarklock
  thanks for your reply, and your explanation makes sense
  
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Caleb Spilchen

14 years ago

YOUR PERMALINKS. (Lol)

Shoulda said the right words. Confused myself

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Luis Carrillo 14 years ago

@celeb
ok, so what you meant was change the permalinks in the custom structure to /%title%/ ?

because i tried that and got an error
or did i do something wrong?
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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MeghanK

The way I showed above. your posts will be website/posttitle much better seo

Let me raise a couple of points.

First, whenever you have a keyword, we tell people to put it on the domain "keyword.com" for the best possible SEO.

But if you can't get "keyword.com" everybody says to just get "keywordblog.com" instead.

So I take something of an issue with the idea of it being "much" better SEO.

As far as it being better SEO, as in even marginally better, some people say "I have two blogs on keyword.com and they have their own specific keywords; one is keywordA and one is keywordB. So I put them on keyword.com/keywordA and keyword.com/keywordB for SEO."

And everybody says "NOOOOOOO don't do that you have to put them on keywordA.keyword.com and keywordB.keyword.com because the folder name doesn't do anything!"

So I'm speculating that keyword.com/blog isn't going to do anything either.

Furthermore, I think there is way too much damn attention being paid to URLs for SEO purposes. I'm betting that if you put an article about lawn furniture on flyingmonkeys.com, you're probably not going to rank very well for the search term "flying monkeys" in the long run... but you'll likely rank for "lawn furniture" just fine.

Worry about generating quality content. Worry about getting quality backlinks. Don't worry about your stupid URL.
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  CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MeghanK
  
  Your advice would have worked before the blog was installed
  
  Actually, it still works. It's just a question of whether you're afraid to move pages that are already indexed.
  
  I'm not, and I think it's silly for anyone else to be.
  
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  CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MeghanK
  
  You can't just move all the stuff to a /blog folder
  
  That's why I said to make an empty "blog" folder and install WordPress there.
  
  Which covers the "i want to have an squeeze page in the main url, and a blog with mydomain .com/blog" problem.
  
  Note how the emphasised portion does not say "move my blog to" - because if it did, the answer to that question would have been different:
  
  Moving WordPress WordPress Codex
  
  We still wouldn't agree on the SEO thing, but then, I don't agree with most SEO professionals. People who make their money in that niche aren't fond of me, because I basically think they're completely unnecessary.
  
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- Luis Carrillo 14 years ago
  
  @ CDarklock
  
  Worry about generating quality content. Worry about getting quality backlinks. Don't worry about your stupid URL.
  
  I agree with you!, love it
  
  the reason I wanted to get a .com/blog , is not for SEO at all
  I just wanted to separate my blog from the squeeze page, as my main focus wil now be list building, so i wanted to capture leads in the .com, and send them to the .com/blog once they optin in the list trough e-mails
  
  and yes its all about quality content & backlinks for SEO
  
  thanks for the help and points
  
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Luis Carrillo

14 years ago

@MeganK Thanks for your help
i did what you said, and the bolg posts now have the extension .com/blog
i also uploaded the squeeze page, and it is in the .com url
thats what i wanted

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zinally

14 years ago

Good sharing guys it also help me to create my landing pages! Great

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