Creating a squeeze page after a website is built?

by OhioWriter

Posted: 12 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I have never built a list on one of my websites. I keep hearing it's how you succeed, but I was a little hesitant at first. Don't really know why, but hey, let's put that in the past.

Anyway, I am looking to build a squeeze page now. What I am wondering is, can I build one easily for a site already? Some of my pages are on the first page of Google when you search for that product. I feel like I am getting decent traffic, and it's making sales...but I could do a lot better still.

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MikeTucker 12 years ago

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking here. Yes, you can build a squeezepage easily for your site.

However, if you are getting your traffic from search engines, you will want to put a form on your site, rather than creating a full squeezepage, which will not rank high at all.

If you are using Wordpress, there are some easy plugins to turn your site into a squeezepage. If you are using a different site builder, or built the site yourself, I'm sure you can find a good html squeezepage creator.
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OhioWriter 12 years ago

What I'm saying is I currently have a website that is doing somewhat well, but I feel could do better.

It has a lot of reviews and general information on a particular niche.

Should I just continue to build it without a squeeze page, or should I somehow get people to add to a list another way?

Most of the site visitors are not visiting the main website URL. They are going to individual articles (from searching reviews on products).
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  Should I just continue to build it without a squeeze page, or should I somehow get people to add to a list another way?
  
  Well, at the very least, be aware that squeeze pages are not the only way to build lists. Especially in these circumstances.
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  Most of the site visitors are not visiting the main website URL. They are going to individual articles (from searching reviews on products).
  
  An opt-in in something like a sidebar (i.e. appearing on every page) would be good, then?
  
  I don't use squeeze pages, myself ... but whatever you do, however you do it, however you test it, start building a list!
  
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- sbucciarel Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  Should I just continue to build it without a squeeze page, or should I somehow get people to add to a list another way?
  
  You don't really need a full page squeeze page. Why not just put an optin form on the site that is already ranking?
  
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JCorp 12 years ago

Since you have an existing site already that seems to get good traffic I'd just put in an opt-in page on the site itself, offer some kind of free report or guide so that people will be motivated to opt-in and you can start collecting their emails and info. Building a list will definitely help you monetize further. You can use Aweber or Getresponse to do this...
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- Nak 12 years ago
  
  You can build squeeze page easily if you have wordpress or there are many
  tools which can be used to do it...
  Building your list,maintaining relation with subscribers & monetizing it is real business
  
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JamesRichardson1 12 years ago

I use a squeeze pop up on a male enhancement site and it gets 30% conversion rate. A squeeze on the side of your blog is going to be easily overlooked. A pop up forces the user to at least look and decide quickly whether they want it. Those are kind of annoying but they work. It will still allow you to keep your rankings. My free gift had to be like product caliber and the call to action was clear and strong.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JamesRichardson1
  
  A pop up forces the user to at least look and decide quickly whether they want it.
  
  It also forces them to decide whether they're ever going to return to your site again.
  
  And from many people that question gets an instinctive "no".
  
  I think that's one of the reasons why people who split-test them adequately and meaningfully, rather than assuming that they "must" work otherwise so many people wouldn't be using them, tend to abandon them.
  
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  OhioWriter 12 years ago
  
  Would you definitely put it on the side? Would it be terrible to put something small right in the middle of the article? I'm afraid that if I wait until the end or off to the side it will never be seen by most. Don't want to lead with it for obvious reasons.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  Would you definitely put it on the side?
  
  My business may be very different from yours, and what works best for me (or for anyone else) may be very different from what works best for you.
  
  I regard my primary purpose in getting the visitor to my site being "to get the opt-in" (but without using a squeeze page, which works less well for me in income terms). So I have a big opt-in, prominently incentivised, on my landing page (not just "at the side"), and then I also have it on every other page but more unobtrusively, at the side, and without the full-scale spiel explaining why they should opt in (I couldn't put that on every page: people would get sick of seeing it).
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  I'm afraid that if I wait until the end or off to the side it will never be seen by most.
  
  Yes; that sound like good thinking, to me. You want one prominent one. Not "below" other content, perhaps?
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  Don't want to lead with it for obvious reasons.
  
  I'm not quite with you, here ... :confused:
  
  I think to some extent it may depend on how the traffic's getting to your site in the first place; your traffic sources, traffic demographics, etc.
  
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OhioWriter 12 years ago

What I'm saying is I don't think leading each article on my website with an opt-in is a good idea. Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems too pushy.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  What I'm saying is I don't think leading each article on my website with an opt-in is a good idea.
  
  Yes, I agree with that, certainly. (Sorry: I might have misunderstood you slightly, in your previous post).
  
  Originally Posted by OhioWriter
  
  Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems too pushy.
  
  Yes, it would be for me, too.
  
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TopKat22 12 years ago

Sure, it is easy. Create the page using NVU and call it domainname.com/squeezepagename

Upload it to your site and there you go. Done.

And as for rankings, I get single page squeeze pages ranked on page one of google all the time in niches related to high demand niches but a bit different that have less competition.

If you need more instructions.............
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ryanyu 12 years ago

Already many good advices mentioned above especially by @Alexa Smith.

As you have a nice stream of traffic to your site,
I would add an optin box with a free report (or video) in the top of the sidebar.

But as @Alexa Smith mentioned, you need to split-test to find out which works the best.

On top of that, it is also important to build a good relationship with your subscribers. If you don't build a trustful relationship, it doesn't matter how many emails you have. They will not open your emails.
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