A Simple Test Page Does The Trick

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Like many people there comes a time when you need or want to change the content on your pillar page(s).

What's A Pillar Page?

I'm so glad you asked let me tell you...

A pillar page is content that is constant on your site and can navigated to from a link either in your menu or side bar. Pillar pages are also known as your money page simply because this is a page you can link to from your posts or target in paid advertising because it has links to your affiliate products.

For example your WA review would be considered a pillar page or money page.

So what do you do when you want to make wholesale changes to a pillar page?

As it turns out I'm in the process of re-doing one of my pillar pages. But It's such a big change that I really can't do it on the fly.

So this is where I create a test page.

I simply go to the pillar page that I want to re-vamp and then I copy the page. Personally I always copy the page in "text" mode.

Now I go to All Pages in the dashboard and click on Add New. I then paste the code from the original pillar page, and save this page as a draft. You can title the page anything you want - I just call mine "A-Test"

I do that because when I use the letter "A" the page is listed at the top of my page dashboard and I don't have to go looking for it.

Now I can make all the changes I want to this test page until I have things like I want them. And during this process I can even preview the page to see what it will look like live.

Once I got things the way I want them. I now copy the code from my test page. And then paste this new code replacing the old code onto my live pillar page and click update.

I then go back to my dashboard and delete the test page.

And boom I have a new updated pillar page without skipping a beat and not having to do it live.

NOTE: I am just changing the copy, I do not touch the permalink on the orriginal pillar page.

Hope you found this helpful.

I believe in you!!
Leo

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So many neat little things to do to make life as an affiliate marketer easier and faster. Thank you for this tip. :)

You're welcome

Great stuff!

Thanks

Two thumbs up! Thanks:)

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Thank you for this! What a time saver....and without losing a beat! Great!

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Leo this is an awesome tip. Thanks! :)

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Thanks for the great info. I find it helpful. Especially rename of test pg.

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I do that all the time, but I didn't think about naming the page "A Test" and that's a point I'll be using in future. Thanks for that.

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Appreciate this tip! Very helpful

No worries

I have one test page in draft, always use it to change things, I also have a test theme for plugins

Yeah I have a test site that I use to play around on - makes for zero stress when doing things on my live sites

Nice tip pal! I also do this.

You're welcome buck-a-roo - lol

I do not. But I will. Great tips Leo. Thank you.

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