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What is a WordPress landing page theme?

Your run of the mill WordPress theme has one template for pages which makes every page on your blog look basically the same, with the same layout, sidebars, colors and look. But it is possible to create more than one page template for a WordPress theme.

A landing page theme has one or more page templates set up to be a landing page for PPC or other advertising sources. Landing pages have a purpose and that purpose is to make a sale or get a lead. There are many ways to make a web page do this better. One is by removing all distractions to the page’s goal.

When I was building sites with Drupal, this was one module that was available and worked well. I had a site that imported ShareASale datafeeds. I have yet to find a similar plugin in WordPress, not even a pay version.

But I have been playing around lately with the CSV import plugin mentioned in my last post. I had some issues with it working. Not matter what I did, the timestamp would not come out right. All the posts were dated in 1999. Well, I fixed the issue by editing the plugin and ended up looking at the stucture. It is pretty simple. I could modify it to creat pages instead of posts if I wanted to.

I tend to see ebooks as noise reducers. Yes, you may get the same information for free somewhere. And free is always better. In fact you may get a lot more information free than you would from an ebook and that’s value. Or is it?

There is value in information but there is more value in the right information. You don’t want to read the entire encyclopedia in order to learn about Anteaters. And that’s what good ebook author’s do for you. They sift through all the info and tell you, “I tried this and this and this and they all worked.” Plus with a price tag on the product, there is a reputation to maintain and customer service. In order for customer service to exist, there has to be a customer and a customer pays a price.

This post is going to be off the cuff a bit. Just a few ideas I have had about using Zemanta and have yet to test. For a more detailed description for what Zemanta does, check out my post at Bloghology. If all you want is a summary, check out how Zemanta can speed up your blogging by saving you time.

Zemanta recently added a feature for adding your own feed sources to the pool of feeds it uses to pull related content from. This can mean a lot to a niche blog. I was thinking a Zemanta account for each niche blog you have and then there are the follow possibilities:

From my other blog today:

The mission of Bloghology is to cover everything blogging and be devoted totally to blogging, providing new and experienced bloggers with worthwhile content every issue. We give advertisers the opportunity to promote their products and services in all three version of the magazine: print, PDF, and online.Stephan Miller, Aug 2008

Check out the rest at my other blog.