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My website topic is to-the-point and I have about 5 pages of supporting info. Adding more pages to it will dilute the message and be seen as filler, not adding value. I could a

Plenty. I'm guessing you're selling a service? Even in that, there's value in good copywritten text working for you 24/7. Aside from blogging or "writing a book" as you've called it, there are:
- Press releases
- PR
- Social media Marketing
- Paid ads
- Podcasting
- Video marketing
- Promo product advertising
- Traditional sales
- Solo ads
and many other options to drive traffic

The question of which is most effective depends on your goals, your target audience, and your budget.

Wealthy Affiliate teaches you to start by building your own assets to the point where they're valuable to the market, get them noticed with SEO, then to layer other things (beginning with social media and paid search ads) onto that.

Thanks for your reply! I'm simply pointing people to a great product that they can purchase from the original MVNO and from Amazon. My site (in my profile) explains the technical ins and outs to give them confidence to proceed and purchase if they so wish. I would get the affiliate commission. Yes, please, but I wouldn't be spendy. I'd start with zero-cost approaches and work up from there if warranted.

Interesting. Well, hopefully I've answered your question. I've tried several marketing plans, but my favorite startup low-cost marketing plan is what's taught here.

Calculate the pros and cons of other options. You can eventually layer many things like larger businesses do. Best wishes in choosing the best fit for your business.

John,

There are direct response marketing tools and platforms you can use in order to drive traffic in front of your products and services which do not require you to write a book or to blog.

Please PM me if you are interested in finding out more.

Wish you great success here at WA and in all of your other undertakings.

Blessings!

PM sent!

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Can I generate traffic without writing a 300-page book?

Can I generate traffic without writing a 300-page book?

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My website topic is to-the-point and I have about 5 pages of supporting info. Adding more pages to it will dilute the message and be seen as filler, not adding value. I could a

Plenty. I'm guessing you're selling a service? Even in that, there's value in good copywritten text working for you 24/7. Aside from blogging or "writing a book" as you've called it, there are:
- Press releases
- PR
- Social media Marketing
- Paid ads
- Podcasting
- Video marketing
- Promo product advertising
- Traditional sales
- Solo ads
and many other options to drive traffic

The question of which is most effective depends on your goals, your target audience, and your budget.

Wealthy Affiliate teaches you to start by building your own assets to the point where they're valuable to the market, get them noticed with SEO, then to layer other things (beginning with social media and paid search ads) onto that.

Thanks for your reply! I'm simply pointing people to a great product that they can purchase from the original MVNO and from Amazon. My site (in my profile) explains the technical ins and outs to give them confidence to proceed and purchase if they so wish. I would get the affiliate commission. Yes, please, but I wouldn't be spendy. I'd start with zero-cost approaches and work up from there if warranted.

Interesting. Well, hopefully I've answered your question. I've tried several marketing plans, but my favorite startup low-cost marketing plan is what's taught here.

Calculate the pros and cons of other options. You can eventually layer many things like larger businesses do. Best wishes in choosing the best fit for your business.

John,

There are direct response marketing tools and platforms you can use in order to drive traffic in front of your products and services which do not require you to write a book or to blog.

Please PM me if you are interested in finding out more.

Wish you great success here at WA and in all of your other undertakings.

Blessings!

PM sent!

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I have a product to promote sold by one vendor, but it has separate listings for many smartphones and tablets, e.g., Apple and Samsung, plus they separately listed items by col

You need a plugin which leverage the Amazon API to parse all the information you want to be extracted from Amazon. Otherwise, it's manual.

Joe

Thanks Joe! I’ll do a plugin search on “amazon”.

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Amazon affiliate: how do I streamline adding many products?

Amazon affiliate: how do I streamline adding many products?

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I have a product to promote sold by one vendor, but it has separate listings for many smartphones and tablets, e.g., Apple and Samsung, plus they separately listed items by col

You need a plugin which leverage the Amazon API to parse all the information you want to be extracted from Amazon. Otherwise, it's manual.

Joe

Thanks Joe! I’ll do a plugin search on “amazon”.

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Just realizing now that I published 5 articles directly in Wordpress and skipped Site Content altogether. What's the best way to work backwards and get these a

I would not waste time doing this. If you want to start using Site Content you can but don't go back and do old posts in it. Just leave those finished posts be.

Brok

Thanks for confirming, Brok. It would be cool if the SC tool would someday create a statistical report based on the WordPress articles.

Unfortunately it's very difficult to this unless you rewrite the article, publish it into WordPress and then delete the second copy in WordPress. Jim

Um, well, OK. Goodbye Site Content. My bad. It was so easy using the WP backoffice that SC escaped me. Thanks, you answered my question!

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Can I add wordpress-published articles to site content?

Can I add wordpress-published articles to site content?

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Just realizing now that I published 5 articles directly in Wordpress and skipped Site Content altogether. What's the best way to work backwards and get these a

I would not waste time doing this. If you want to start using Site Content you can but don't go back and do old posts in it. Just leave those finished posts be.

Brok

Thanks for confirming, Brok. It would be cool if the SC tool would someday create a statistical report based on the WordPress articles.

Unfortunately it's very difficult to this unless you rewrite the article, publish it into WordPress and then delete the second copy in WordPress. Jim

Um, well, OK. Goodbye Site Content. My bad. It was so easy using the WP backoffice that SC escaped me. Thanks, you answered my question!

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In the Primer website theme, under Settings/Reading/Your homepage displays/A static page/Posts Page:/-Select -, the drop down menu lists my Pages there, not my Posts! Looks lik

Brok answered me and there is a plugin - Post Type Switcher - that converts a Post to a Page, and includes all the Comments as well! Quick fix. Done. Awesome, Brok.

Most themes that I've come across only allow you to set a page as your homepage. Not sure exactly why that is but that's what is the industry standard.

You can easily get around this by just copy and pasting your post that you'd like to be the homepage to a page and then deleting the post of course.

Has the post already been indexed by Google?

Hi Brok,

This theme has dropdown menus that allow for either Pages or Posts to become your static homepage. Except the code has a bug in it. I also looked to see if this theme allows changing a Post to a Page (and vice-versa) - some do, but this one doesn't have that option.

The page took inside of 24 hours to be indexed by Google after it was first published.

I guess I might have to do the cut/paste thing (plus 11 comments with replies), but really, this is such a basic piece of functionality that doesn't work and wasn't flagged all this time - I'm surprised.

Thanks,
John

John,

If the theme has that feature I'd contact them and see if it's an easy fix that might have got messed up on their last update or something like that before creating a new page.

Could save you the headaches because if they have that feature of course they want it to work!

Brok

I'm sure it's a one line code fix. What they did was call up my written Pages in both drop downs, instead of calling up Pages in one and Posts in the other. It looks like I'll have to find the theme's "View support forum" and report this and hope for a quick-turn fix.

Thanks

The screenshot is very helpful because that's actually not what that means.

The "Posts Page" drop down is for setting a specific page to show your blog roll.

For example if you don't want a blog roll on your homepage you can create a new page and set it to have your blog roll on it.

So the theme actually doesn't have that feature and you'd need to create a new page and transfer that post if that's what you'd like to have as your homepage.

Thanks Brok! It's quite misleading when you're new to the web development nomenclature - that would be me. Maybe I will ask them to add the feature to convert Posts to Pages instead. But that would not happen soon and I'd have to do the cut/paste exercise.

You can actually make it happen pretty easily by using this plugin: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-convert-post-types/

There's also a plugin that allows you to move comments to another page/post so if those don't transfer I'd do that as well.

Brok

Very helpful! Thanks Brok.

The plugin worked beautifully, and yes, it moved all the comments as well! I set it as my static homepage at the root URL level and it worked! Done :) Much appreciated, Brok.

Perfect glad you have it taken care of!

Let me know if you run into any other troubles.

Brok

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Is there a workaround forsetting a post as static home page?

Is there a workaround forsetting a post as static home page?

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In the Primer website theme, under Settings/Reading/Your homepage displays/A static page/Posts Page:/-Select -, the drop down menu lists my Pages there, not my Posts! Looks lik

Brok answered me and there is a plugin - Post Type Switcher - that converts a Post to a Page, and includes all the Comments as well! Quick fix. Done. Awesome, Brok.

Most themes that I've come across only allow you to set a page as your homepage. Not sure exactly why that is but that's what is the industry standard.

You can easily get around this by just copy and pasting your post that you'd like to be the homepage to a page and then deleting the post of course.

Has the post already been indexed by Google?

Hi Brok,

This theme has dropdown menus that allow for either Pages or Posts to become your static homepage. Except the code has a bug in it. I also looked to see if this theme allows changing a Post to a Page (and vice-versa) - some do, but this one doesn't have that option.

The page took inside of 24 hours to be indexed by Google after it was first published.

I guess I might have to do the cut/paste thing (plus 11 comments with replies), but really, this is such a basic piece of functionality that doesn't work and wasn't flagged all this time - I'm surprised.

Thanks,
John

John,

If the theme has that feature I'd contact them and see if it's an easy fix that might have got messed up on their last update or something like that before creating a new page.

Could save you the headaches because if they have that feature of course they want it to work!

Brok

I'm sure it's a one line code fix. What they did was call up my written Pages in both drop downs, instead of calling up Pages in one and Posts in the other. It looks like I'll have to find the theme's "View support forum" and report this and hope for a quick-turn fix.

Thanks

The screenshot is very helpful because that's actually not what that means.

The "Posts Page" drop down is for setting a specific page to show your blog roll.

For example if you don't want a blog roll on your homepage you can create a new page and set it to have your blog roll on it.

So the theme actually doesn't have that feature and you'd need to create a new page and transfer that post if that's what you'd like to have as your homepage.

Thanks Brok! It's quite misleading when you're new to the web development nomenclature - that would be me. Maybe I will ask them to add the feature to convert Posts to Pages instead. But that would not happen soon and I'd have to do the cut/paste exercise.

You can actually make it happen pretty easily by using this plugin: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-convert-post-types/

There's also a plugin that allows you to move comments to another page/post so if those don't transfer I'd do that as well.

Brok

Very helpful! Thanks Brok.

The plugin worked beautifully, and yes, it moved all the comments as well! I set it as my static homepage at the root URL level and it worked! Done :) Much appreciated, Brok.

Perfect glad you have it taken care of!

Let me know if you run into any other troubles.

Brok

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I searched both:
- the initial cost (on the surface) is similar
- the domains I searched for availability produced identical results

Thanks,
John

Glad you found your answer! As the others mentioned price point is usually very similar just depends on how simple you want to make it. I have a few domains at namescheap and a few I bought through WA. It's pretty easy to go through someone else when you start a site, but as Mike mentioned, if you want to transfer a site, which I've done, it can be a hassle.

Brok

Thanks Brok. I moved my siterubix site to my .com domain in WA last night. It took maybe ~3 minutes to be able to see the site at the new URL.
John

Youre going to want to buy your domain so you have a .com, if you are paying to be with WA already, it's probably not worth the extra hassle to go through GoDaddy.

I have a website with GoDaddy for my lawn care company. I pay a small monthly fee or a much larger yearly fee. I always paid yearly in the past but when it came time to renew this time, I chose monthly because I had just started building a site at WA and wasn't sure at the time if I wanted to move it here or could.

My .com with WA is 13.99 a year not month. Now, my monthly membership fee with WA is much more than the hosting with GoDaddy but I pay that fee to be a part of the community and the benifits that come with it. To sum it up I'm paying for the membership anyways so I don't consider that to be for hosting. 13.99 is the way to go.

I plan on moving my GoDaddy site to WA when it's time to renew. You can do a lot with your site at GoDaddy. It is worth the money. I have been learning about websites, seo, rankings, etc for years. You have to kmow this stuff prior to building your GoDaddy site or you're going to have a lot of bumps in the road.

With all that I have learned over the years, the WA training and help from the community has taught me more in just weeks. Not only am I blown away from what I have learned so far, I can control several sites from one place with help from real people anytime I need it.

After finding WA, I would never put a website anywhere else, period. Yes GoDaddy is worth the money, but not compared to WA.

Let us know what you decide

Thanks! Its clear that Go Daddy is well regarded (I used them some years back with no issues), but I'd like to be able to keep things simple - it can all be on the same WA platform which I'm already on.

With yours and Mike's input, I'm going with WA Site Domains!

Hi John !
I did the same thing when I first started, and came to the conclusion that W.A. was the best fit for me based on keeping everything as simple as possible.
If you buy domains at one place to use somewhere elseyou have to get the domain released etc. I tried to move a domain from Bluehost and it took over a month!
In short, doing W.A. domains just keeps everything simple.

Best of success!
Mike

Mike, Thanks! Good input, in less than a minute. Much appreciated.

John

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Am I better off with wa site domains or go daddy?

Am I better off with wa site domains or go daddy?

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I searched both:
- the initial cost (on the surface) is similar
- the domains I searched for availability produced identical results

Thanks,
John

Glad you found your answer! As the others mentioned price point is usually very similar just depends on how simple you want to make it. I have a few domains at namescheap and a few I bought through WA. It's pretty easy to go through someone else when you start a site, but as Mike mentioned, if you want to transfer a site, which I've done, it can be a hassle.

Brok

Thanks Brok. I moved my siterubix site to my .com domain in WA last night. It took maybe ~3 minutes to be able to see the site at the new URL.
John

Youre going to want to buy your domain so you have a .com, if you are paying to be with WA already, it's probably not worth the extra hassle to go through GoDaddy.

I have a website with GoDaddy for my lawn care company. I pay a small monthly fee or a much larger yearly fee. I always paid yearly in the past but when it came time to renew this time, I chose monthly because I had just started building a site at WA and wasn't sure at the time if I wanted to move it here or could.

My .com with WA is 13.99 a year not month. Now, my monthly membership fee with WA is much more than the hosting with GoDaddy but I pay that fee to be a part of the community and the benifits that come with it. To sum it up I'm paying for the membership anyways so I don't consider that to be for hosting. 13.99 is the way to go.

I plan on moving my GoDaddy site to WA when it's time to renew. You can do a lot with your site at GoDaddy. It is worth the money. I have been learning about websites, seo, rankings, etc for years. You have to kmow this stuff prior to building your GoDaddy site or you're going to have a lot of bumps in the road.

With all that I have learned over the years, the WA training and help from the community has taught me more in just weeks. Not only am I blown away from what I have learned so far, I can control several sites from one place with help from real people anytime I need it.

After finding WA, I would never put a website anywhere else, period. Yes GoDaddy is worth the money, but not compared to WA.

Let us know what you decide

Thanks! Its clear that Go Daddy is well regarded (I used them some years back with no issues), but I'd like to be able to keep things simple - it can all be on the same WA platform which I'm already on.

With yours and Mike's input, I'm going with WA Site Domains!

Hi John !
I did the same thing when I first started, and came to the conclusion that W.A. was the best fit for me based on keeping everything as simple as possible.
If you buy domains at one place to use somewhere elseyou have to get the domain released etc. I tried to move a domain from Bluehost and it took over a month!
In short, doing W.A. domains just keeps everything simple.

Best of success!
Mike

Mike, Thanks! Good input, in less than a minute. Much appreciated.

John

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