Wordpress Overkill for Pre-Sell?

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by Ashiro, Oct 5, 2009.

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    I'm just wondering if a full-blown Wordpress blog on my own domain is a bit overkill for a pre-sell?

    My niche has a lot of related niches so I could turn it into a bigger/fuller site with pages on each sub-niche but as an initial pre-sell page - is it too much?

    Is there a preffered format for making WP into a good pre-sell format?
     
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  2. goliath

    goliath Active Member

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    I agree entirely, it's overkill.

    However right now, there's nothing to compare in the areas of price, market penetration, and flexibillity, so loads of people are using it. The number of templates available for creating different looks (not so bloggy) in wordpress is huge, I wouldn't even try to guess it, and there are plugins for a crazy number of features, too.

    I'm actually about to submit a clickbank product to try and address this gap in the market, but it requires actual HTML and CSS skills to take proper advantage of it.

    The problem with that is that many people are using wordpress exactly because they don't have those skills, and there are literally millions of posts on the internet about adapting wordpress to all sorts of uses where you can just cut/paste code, or download a template/plugin.
     
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    Wordpress is just the easiest most professional way to build your own website at the moment. Once you learn how to use themes and plugins, you'll never use anything else for your landing pages.
     
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    I've used wordpress, and it is excellent for blogs. And yes a great choice of templates.

    Despite this I am now choosing to hand write my landing pages FROM SCRATCH in HTML in a text editor.

    It sounds crazy, but not other method gives you 100% control to produce valid XHTML that will render properly in all browsers combinations.

    The end result is a .html which will be dished up reliably (not PHP or DB errors) and has less scope for being hacked, and will require zero maintenance time. Therefore you wont waste a single paid click on a server error, or slow loading page (that makes the customer click "back").

    Once you get used to HTML, knocking up a page from scratch doesn't take long, and this is a great starting point:

    http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-multi-column-liquid-layouts-em-and-pixel-widths
     
    mcapodici, Oct 6, 2009 IP