In this article I am going to show you how to make money online by creating your own landing pages using your WordPress blog. These pages increase the odds of you make you money online because you can direct traffic to these pages using your own blog traffic.
All you need to do is pick some ad campaigns that you think will work for you blog, write nice articles about the campaigns that you want to promote and instead of making a blog post with your article, simply publish the article in your special landing page. From there, all you need to do is use UniqueBlogDesign.com’s brand new Affiliate Theme. Here is a video presentation of Affiliate Theme:
The Affiliate Theme gives you the ability to create amazing and very powerful WordPress landing pages for marketing and promoting affiliate based products and services. It is the number one choice and method for top affiliate marketers in the industry.
The reason why you want to build your own landing pages using Affiliate Theme is because the default landing pages that come with WordPress really aren’t all that good. If you can build a better page and write better content, you can increase your odds of getting the desired call to action. With that said, as a special bonus offer, if you purchase any of the Affiliate Theme versions, send me an email to garryconn@gmail.com with a copy of your sales receipt and I will send you my exclusive premium grade eBook titled, The Affiliate Marketers Handbook.
This eBook will teach you everything you need to know about affiliate marketing. I will show you how to get traffic to your landing pages, I will show you how to take advantage of all the social networks, and I will show you how to write excellent content. You can get a free copy of The Affiliate Marketers Handbook when you order Affiliate Theme. The these two products go hand in hand with making affiliate marketing easy and highly successful.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 06:14:10 Comment #24771
This trick is good especially that pepperjam has now a store builder
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 06:16:37 Comment #24772
I didn’t know that about Pepperjam. I haven’t logged into my Pepperjam account in a few weeks and I tried tonight, but forgot my password. I have been waiting on their system to resend me my password by email. For some reason, I haven’t received it yet. As soon as I can log back into my account, I will be sure to check this out. Thanks for letting me know about it.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 06:50:17 Comment #24773
I saw that about Pepperjam also and was going to look into it too. It is kind of like a BANS site but without having to use eBay.
Garry thanks for this landing page information. I have been setting up niche sites to take care of the landing page situation, but this is a much better way and you don’t have to buy a domain name for it.
Looking forward to your further instruction on landing pages.
Rich
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 07:01:41 Comment #24775
Hi Rich,
Indeed, I have a few more tricks up my sleeve for additional tips on affiliate marketing. Who said I was just an AdSense buff?
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 07:15:41 Comment #24776
Very nice tip here, buddy. When I’ve modified pages before (not necessarily page.php) I’ve always been confused about how to make up for something like a removed sidebar. Doesn’t sound so bad now.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 07:20:33 Comment #24777
There is more of a proper way with dealing with that. But doing the style=”width:###px;” works just as well. Granted, one would want to do something in the actual style.css file. But, I didn’t want to confuse anyone and feel that this should be just as fine for a simple landing page.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 07:38:36 Comment #24778
hey garry one suggestion the background image tile (G’s) of your site is distracting, you can ask others also if you want. i would say try placing something else or a pattern.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:16:23 Comment #24780
Hi Anand,
Thanks for the feedback. I can’t have you retaining 100% of the information you read on my blog. How about just making the (G’s) smaller?
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 13:55:26 Comment #24818
I like the Gs, reminds me of the Joker from Batman
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Date/Time: 10-27-2008 08:12:51 Comment #25167
hi garry,
wow what a nice theme it is really pleasing to the eye
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thanks for listening to one of our advices
great job
love your blog
thanks
anand
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:21:32 Comment #24781
Good Tip Garry, I will throw one more thing in the mix, once you define a page as a Page Template, the rest of the page does not have to be related to Wordpress at all.
You can create a page with any software you want, as long as it has the first section at the top defining it as a Page Template.
You could take an existing Sales Page and convert it with a quick cut and paste.
Check out David Cooley’s last blog post..Fix A Wordpress Blog With One Click
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:30:17 Comment #24782
Careful now… you might start revealing some of our trade secrets.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:35:18 Comment #24783
oops, oh well, we only have a couple more thousand of those little things, like how to make a better eBay page that really gets indexed, did I say that out loud?
I just wish more people realized what they can really do with Wordpress !
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:45:13 Comment #24784
Ah… you should be familiar with this scenario. I know that I have had trouble with it most of my life. It’s called being way ahead of the times. Meaning, despite the fact that you or myself may know a lot about how to
breakerr, “Tweak Things”, at times it seems there isn’t a global demand for our skillsets. This for sure was illustrated last year with the development of DynoPage.Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:48:36 Comment #24785
very nice post Garry, I see why its on the front page of google for the term wordpress landing pages. I am actually very excited about getting into landing pages and starting into PPC properly. I got a kick as dot net name for what I am doing so my quality score should be sweet too. I was looking at a theme called ignite which is a wordpress landing page style of site. It looks very nice, 49 bucks though but still very nice.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 08:53:24 Comment #24786
Hi Collin,
There is nothing wrong with investing money into things that will make you money. For me though, I am pretty tight with my money. So knowing me… I would probably try to make my own, or modify one that is very close. But you know what they say, “Time is money” and I’d probably be better off just buying the theme from the get go.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:04:05 Comment #24787
you make over 10k a month and your tight with your money?(Just Kidding) I know what you mean though, you never know when the internet or something might change and throw your income into a tail spin.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:09:41 Comment #24788
Hehe… that is why I am tight with my money.
On a sad note, yes… indeed, much of what I do depends on the AdSense gods… North American Indians do the rain dance and pray for rain to help grow their crop, and I do the AdSense Dance at the base of my driveway near the mailbox and pray for the mailman to bring me my check. lol!!!
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:10:13 Comment #24789
Question:
That Park Theme is pretty much the same as your very own Niche Doctor Park Page plugin and twice the cost?
Is there something I am missing?
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:13:14 Comment #24791
@collin
@david
Is this the theme we are looking at?
http://ithemes.com/ignite-landing-page-theme-for-parked-domains/
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:15:27 Comment #24794
Yes
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:17:25 Comment #24795
ya thats it, very plan, no frills but you can still do the seo on it and such…..or make it a real site.
is your plug in the same? what template does it use?
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:24:09 Comment #24797
Collin,
Go here: http://www.garryconn.com/the-niche-doctor-park-page-wordpress-plugin.php and check out our WordPress Park Page, I believe that you’ll find our’s a little more appealing.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:35:22 Comment #24803
K I went and looked at it, the stand alone version I am assuming means template right or theme?
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:25:36 Comment #24798
The Niche Doctor plugin is basically the same and since it is a plugin it is not Theme dependent, it will run on whatever theme you are gonna be using.
Check out David Cooley’s last blog post..Fix A Wordpress Blog With One Click
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:21:41 Comment #24796
Looks like the theme has a little sprinkle of cinnamon and CSS. We could easily take our existing Park Page that we sell for $29.95 and perhaps offer a Cinnamon Toast Crunchy design with it for like $39.95.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:13:06 Comment #24790
lmao, funny thing is I can picture that too
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:14:09 Comment #24792
It wouldn’t surprise me if Google Earth has it captured on satellite as well.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:30:38 Comment #24801
Well Garry, what I am looking for is a theme I can use what ever plug ins I want on, just like my blog but looks like a landing page. That theme you can change the colors on, I think there is 4 styles. But that is what I am looking for, not a plug in I guess but a real live theme.
Is that what yours is?
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:47:56 Comment #24806
Let me see if I can clarify this. Seems we are talking backwards.
The Niche Doctor Park Page Plugin is just that a plugin.
You pick whatever theme you want your blog to be in, just like you were going to develop it. You install this plugin, it has a couple different options on how you want it to work, but the general principle is it lets you have a Park Page while you are working on your blog.
When you are ready to go live with your blog, just turn off the Park Page, thats it.
I was looking at that same theme before, and could not figure out why I would want a Parked Theme. That means when I go live I either change the whole theme, or use a Park Theme for a Live blog.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 10:05:21 Comment #24807
Ok I understand what your talking about now.
I am getting into PPC Marketing, and that requires a good landing page for a few reasons. 1- it helps conversations 2- increases your quality score so you pay less per click.
now, with that said. Most blogs do not have high conversations when clean landing pages do. So by me using or wanting to use a wordpress theme that looks like ignite I can get search engines rankings for search traffic as well as use the same site for PPC campaigns. Kill two birds with one stone. My site name has a good amount of search traffic looking for it every month so why not build a site that converts high in both area’s – search and ppc
I want to remove the look of a blog, basically. But keep using wordpress as I know how to use it and its great for seo. I am not sure, if I can use ignite as a perminate site or not. I have emailed the guy asking if the coding is done in suck a way where you can use it as a normal site.
See, most everyone thinks of wordpress just for blogging, it does not have to be that way.
Your plug in would work great for some of my other sites that are just sitting there doing jack all because I don’t have the time to build them yet.
Does this make sense?
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 10:09:38 Comment #24809
You just basically made a great case for using our plugin, see the next comment, go watch the video. It is what you just outlined, for the blog your are talking about, and your other blogs.
I have sites running this plugin that are indexed better than completed WP blogs.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 09:37:03 Comment #24804
Garry,
This is very good stuff! I wonder if I could use this article in the PDF version of MyBloggingSchool.com Training Guide for setting up landing pages. With so many people trying to get started blogging and struggling to find the best ways to get monetized right away, this technique will help even newcomers to the business get moving fast.
If you would like to do a teleseminar one evening, I would be happy to discuss it with you. The launch is scheduled for November 1st and I plan on having multiple calls to celebrate the launch. Let me know if you can schedule one with me.
Have an amazing day!
Micheal Savoie
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 10:07:16 Comment #24808
SNEAK PEEK
Talking to Garry in email, we believe there is some confusion on the Park Page issue, so, I just changed the video on the Niche Doctor Blog to show the WHOLE 13 minute video instead of just a clip.
Go to blog.the-niche-doctor.com and you can watch the video (post is The Niche Doctor Park Page WordPress Plugin) and see exactly what it does, and how it works.
Hope this helps.
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 11:10:50 Comment #24810
Ok that video does explain a lot better what your plug in does. That video should also help sell more plug ins too
but for what I want to build, it does not look like what I want it to do. I promise, once I get my site built I will let you know about it so you can see it and then your going to see what I was talking about.
Your plug in does honestly look like a very good idea and I will more then likely grab it in the next week (to busy right now to put the time into it) and do that with some of my sites that are just sitting there doing jack all.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 11:20:00 Comment #24811
Yeah, I want to see it, I have not been able to figure out where a Park Theme has an advantage, but just causes more work (which is something I am allergic too).
But, I try to always be open to ideas.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 13:53:37 Comment #24817
I did not read all the comments above and this may have been mentioned but I think the cybercoder theme that I got with the WP niche ebook would be just darn-tootin perfect for this because of how easy it is to customize.
BTW, Garry, you realize you shouldn’t be giving this A-list info away for free like this right?
I have actually been wondering how to make static sites ie landing pages like this and was figuring I was gonna have to hire that work out somewhere. Now you just gave it to me for free. It really does pay to subscribe to your blog!
thanks a million!
AL
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 15:42:15 Comment #24819
Great tutorial on making a landing page! Once you make one template, it isn’t too hard!
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 20:07:21 Comment #24842
Nope… and the great thing is that you can use it for just about any business, product or service that you’d like to promote. Also, as you continue to seed links and point to these pages, they in return will get more powerful and eventually rank pretty darn good for some competitive keyword phases in the search engines.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 16:36:58 Comment #24821
Great post, Garry! I am a big Wordpress supporter, because of the functionality and plugins. I’d never thought about making landing pages with Wordpress before, but this is such a great idea. It also seems very easy to do! Good luck with creative promotions for MarketLeverage products! Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions at all! Thanks for posting!
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 19:30:38 Comment #24838
As usual, Garry and David come through with some great stuff. You just made life a whole lot simpler for folks.
Folks, consider purchasing the Niche Dr. Theme or plugin or both. The amazing posts and videos they do are free. But “free” is supported by their sales.
Thank you guys.
Date/Time: 10-24-2008 20:26:18 Comment #24845
Excellent! This plugin is just what i was looking for…
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 21:24:41 Comment #24853
I am about to get into landing pages myself – not having to pay for all domain names is indeed a big plus.
Do you know if alinks interferes at all with the ninja-affiliate plugin?
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Date/Time: 10-24-2008 21:34:48 Comment #24854
Ninga Aff should be the better of the two and you don’t need both.
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Date/Time: 10-26-2008 06:39:52 Comment #25015
As usual, a very interesting and useful post from you Garry. I only hope to carry out your instructions without actually messing up somewhere.
Date/Time: 10-26-2008 15:32:46 Comment #25068
very nice tip , actually i never thought to do such thing with wordpress, but i think the landing page will look better if i include the header and footer and just remove the sidebar as you said
Date/Time: 11-4-2008 22:05:54 Comment #25845
Go ahead and confuse me I want to know the edits for the CSS! Also, which folder do I upload the new template? I know If I don’t know that how will I understand CSS? Good question but If I stare at it long enough some of it might stick.
You are a true genius and I appreciate your sharing!
I am determined to do this.
Date/Time: 11-22-2008 07:19:31 Comment #27079
Hi Garry,
you’r my hero man. Last year I wanted to build a plugin like this. I was so desperate to be able to deep link without having to do it manually but eventually I gave up. . . Somebody punchhhh me
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Date/Time: 12-8-2008 10:47:56 Comment #27722
Great job Garry,
as a veteran of 10 years in Internet marketing, any way that I can improve conversion is worth looking harder at. Too many newbies get hung up on big traffic, and focus too little on conversion, really.
I have never tried Alink, but I did buy WPAffiliate Pro last week for $97. I will be refunding this purchase, as I found WPMarketer to be a superior plug with more capability, and it is free, which is a bonus.
I don’t mind spending a few bucks on a plugin when it is the best of the best, but when a free one is better, well you know how it goes.
I have to keep things as streamlined as possible. I have 12 blogs to run, and I am on the Affiliate Marketing seminar circuit speaking throughout the year. The more automated, and the better tracked my efforts are, the less time I have to take in the long run.
I normally use a third party to author my ad copy and landing pages, but I find they never do as good a job as we can do ourselves.
Great blog, Garry!
Cheers,
Ron Davies
Date/Time: 1-1-2009 18:02:27 Comment #28716
Here’s and interesting sales page theme you can pick up for free and create some cool landing pages.
Scroll down to the end of the page for the free version.
Enjoy!
http://internetmarketingwithblogs.com/
Very respectfully,
MikeR
Date/Time: 2-23-2009 10:34:10 Comment #30842
great post and i basically understand what your doing… my wordpress theme Passion Duo blue dont give option for page templates when you in admin panel… so how would i get around this as i only need a singlar page with no side bars? my URL is tha actual site….
Date/Time: 4-15-2009 14:35:01 Comment #33153
Gary,
You’re killing me with all your free content! How can anyone compete when you are giving all the good stuff away? Hey, that is ok with me because I plan on taking everything that you are offering like a hungry dog!
Thanks for all the help.
Mark
Date/Time: 5-18-2009 02:55:41 Comment #33739
This article provided the basic info I needed to get started. I’ve heard other marketers discussing the use of WP for affiliate mktg but none explained how to do it. This gave me a great starting point.