newbie question of the day!
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The way I see it is like this. If you are going to make single "sales" landing pages for campaigns to run on AdWords or Social Networks etc. Then a general domain name with subdomains would probably be ok.
If you are making a full blown website on a particular subject - then have a single domain that reflects the website content. Because google wants your site and content and ads to match each other. And also it wouldn't make any sense to your audience if your domain name and content didn't match.
NickRac
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Do you suggest making full out sites for each domain that reflect the particular topic? thats what my question was in a previous thread. im a little confused on the whole landing page vs. website thing
There's no rules for anything. It's what you enjoy doing and what you feel you could do well at. You can do both.
A landing page, which is a quick single sales page is more geared towards PPC campaigns etc., it's there with one purpose - to sell that item.
An entire website can be your personal pet project/hobby (while still selling stuff on it) which will continually evolve over time, and maybe even one day have some value which you could sell it.
I've always done the whole website thing on something that interests me, that I can keep adding to and try to develope an audience/community with... again it's long term developing, generating useful content that the search engines will pick up on, and other websites will link to - over time.
but I'm starting now to experiment with this landing page / direct selling aspect too.
So you can do both. Noodle around with your large website, and have a few little landing page campaigns going to.
Just don't spread yourself too thin, so you can't do justice to either one. You have to maintain some focus for either one to succeed.
Good luck!
Thank you very much for the informative reply, its just that I'm about to start PPC-Coach and on their FAQs section it says this:
Q. I don't know how to make a website, can I join?
A. You can, but we don't recommend it. Learning to build a website is very easy and perhaps you should google some "html tutorials" to get started before joining us. We're not really about teaching you website building, it's very simple and easy to learn. We will provide some technical support but a basic knowledge of html is preferred. so do they want us to make websites and that is how they teach us or what?
HarveyJ
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Oh dear... coaching... Well, at least Will's not an utter douchebag like other people out there.
Listen, if you've got the money you don't need to be able to make sites. Either buy some templates, editing in your campaign's fields, text and images, or get some slave labour at DP.
If you're strapped for cash, you can still do this method via piracy... although morally speaking if you make money from those sites, it'd be nice of you to go and pay retrospectively.
That said, YES, they want you to know how to make the sites yourself. Not handcode it in notepad or anything, just know enough to be able to use some of the basic features of something like Dreamweaver.
Listen, if you've got the money you don't need to be able to make sites. Either buy some templates, editing in your campaign's fields, text and images, or get some slave labour at DP.
If you're strapped for cash, you can still do this method via piracy... although morally speaking if you make money from those sites, it'd be nice of you to go and pay retrospectively.
That said, YES, they want you to know how to make the sites yourself. Not handcode it in notepad or anything, just know enough to be able to use some of the basic features of something like Dreamweaver.
Come to think of it. If you make just one or two sales on most offers - it'll pay for your domain for the whole year. So yeah, it could make sense to get a domain specific to an offer. And later you can turn that domain into an entire site.
But on the flip side I can see where he's coming from.
If there's 50 different types of offers a person wants to try out and not sure which one they'd like to stick with in the long run - that could be a lot of wasted money and domains floating around with nothing to do.
I'm going to reg a domain that is generic enough to cover a bundle of different offers. Like a domain with the word "Lifestyle" in it - can cover health, financial, sporting stuff, entertianment and so on. Cause I'm viewing it as something I'm most likely not going to expand on other than experimenting with the landing page / ppc thing.
Or if you regged a novelty type name like Google for example - that site could be about anything......
When you know for sure which topic you like the most - hunt for the perfect domain that suits it.
Anyhoo, just another point of view on efficiency and not wasting any more than you need to.
Funny, sometimes you come accross a site ranked on Google's 1st page and it's on free yahoo type blog site - not even a unique domain, and it's got tons of backlinks and age behind it to keep it there.
/2 cents.
But on the flip side I can see where he's coming from.
If there's 50 different types of offers a person wants to try out and not sure which one they'd like to stick with in the long run - that could be a lot of wasted money and domains floating around with nothing to do.
I'm going to reg a domain that is generic enough to cover a bundle of different offers. Like a domain with the word "Lifestyle" in it - can cover health, financial, sporting stuff, entertianment and so on. Cause I'm viewing it as something I'm most likely not going to expand on other than experimenting with the landing page / ppc thing.
Or if you regged a novelty type name like Google for example - that site could be about anything......
When you know for sure which topic you like the most - hunt for the perfect domain that suits it.
Anyhoo, just another point of view on efficiency and not wasting any more than you need to.
Funny, sometimes you come accross a site ranked on Google's 1st page and it's on free yahoo type blog site - not even a unique domain, and it's got tons of backlinks and age behind it to keep it there.
/2 cents.
after reading through this post and going over all the good info i actually have more questions than i did before i started reading...lol
i thought you guys just posted banners etc to other sites i did not realize you actually built sites that sold the products how exactly does that work? how does the product get paid for? who handles the payments? and shipping?
i thought you guys just posted banners etc to other sites i did not realize you actually built sites that sold the products how exactly does that work? how does the product get paid for? who handles the payments? and shipping?
When you buy a domain specifically to make PPC landing pages, how do you typically structure the site?
Do you just put up a homepage with some keyword rich content to try to help with your quality score and maybe a privacy policy or terms to cover your ass and then just have a bunch of independent landing pages that link to those?
Do you just put up a homepage with some keyword rich content to try to help with your quality score and maybe a privacy policy or terms to cover your ass and then just have a bunch of independent landing pages that link to those?
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