Creating Pages with Marketing PRO

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From your dashboard, go to “Create” » “Marketing PRO Pages”.

Whether you’re creating additional landing pages or just need another link in your navigation bar, the Page+Menu Editor is where you’ll do both.

To Create a New Page

  1. Enter your new page’s file name. (While using spaces in your file names shouldn’t create a problem, proper formatting for web addresses should contain either dashes “-” or underscores “_” to separate words.) Click on the “Create” button.
  2. Once you receive confirmation that the file has been created, scroll down the page to your “Links Editor”. Find the page name you just created and click on the “Edit” link. An editor window will load just beneath the Link Editor box.
  3. NOTE:  When creating links either within your site or on external sites to these page, the page names ARE case-sensitive.  i.e. http://mydomain.com/mypage.php is not the same as http://mydomain.com/MyPage.php

There are a few key features available when creating pages for use outside your blog directory. You’ll see these feature settings above the Editor window.

  1. First you have the option to completely optimize your pages for search engines, meaning you can enter a title, description and keyword list to be included in the “meta tags” of the actual web page.
  2. Second, you have the option to set up this page as a “redirect” so when a visitor comes to this page they are actually taken to another page (usually on another website). This is an AWESOME way to “cloak” your affiliate links. Let’s say you’re promoting Quan$ite™ on another site, maybe within MySpace or FaceBook, or even through your email signatures. Giving out a link that looks like: http://quansite.com/jamaffiliates/id/2386 doesn’t look quite as nice as http://mydomain.com/quansite.php. To use this feature, enter the full URL of where you would like your visitors to be directed to then mark the checkbox just below.
  3. Next you’ll notice a “Generate No Thanks Button“. This is a great option to utilize in conjunction with the “One Time Offer” setting (explained below). To add this to your page, click on the button to open a small features window. Within this window you’ll be able to select the image you’d like to use by entering the full URL of the image, the URL that you’d like your visitors to be passed to if they choose not to take you up on your offer, and finally the “warning message” that will appear if someone does choose the “No Thanks” option. Once you’ve entered these options, click on “Generate Button” and the code you will need will appear in the lower box. Copy all the code within that box, and go back to your main page Editor. Here you will need to enter the code by selecting the “HTML” icon (if using the visual editor) to insert the code.I recommend adding this code first and building the rest of your content around it to prevent having to search through the code to find where it should go. (You can now close the “No Thanks Button Constructor” window.)
  4. *New as of March 2008* The Squeeze Page option allows you to remove all additional navigation from the page, which is turn forces your visitors to concentrate only on the content or offer you are presenting them. You can remove the entire navigation bar, the header, and/or the footer from the page.

Add Video or Audio to your Marketing PRO Page
(note: these instructions are the same with all Visual Editors and are covered within the Marketing PRO section)

Adding Images to your Marketing PRO Page
The other very important icon you should know about is the “Tree icon” which you will use to insert images.

Under the General tab, enter the complete image URL, a good keyword-rich description of your image, and a strong keyword-rich Title.

Under Appearance you can set the alignment. You’ll see a little “display” sample of what the alignment is like. If you want text to “wrap around” your image, this is where you would set that. You’ll also set the size of your image here. Keep the “Constrain proportions” checked in order to keep your image proportioned correctly.

In the Advanced tab you’ll be able to create a “mouse-over” effect if you’d like by selecting the “Alternative image” checkbox and adding the alternate image URL in the appropriate box.

Once you’ve finished creating your Marketing PRO Page, click on the “Update File” button. You will receive confirmation that the page has been updated. It may take up to 20 minutes for this page to be viewable in a browser. If you start to receive error messages on the page you just created, this is due to the fact that your page has not been sent through yet.

One last feature setting you may choose to employ when creating new Marketing PRO pages is the “One Time Offer” feature. The OTO feature can be added to any Marketing Pro page just selecting the “Make OTO” checkbox within the “Links Editor”.

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Home Page Editor

From your dashboard, go to “Create” » “Home Page Editor”

Your Quan$ite™ system was installed with a temporary Welcome Page to give you some great tips on what you should include and a sample layout of your landing page.

Your Home Page Editor Settings

  1. The Settings within your Home Page editor (located on the right-hand side) determine if you’d like to edit your page in the “Visual Editor” (aka WYSIWYG), the “Ajax Editor” (aka Click & Drag) or the “Text Editor”.
  2. If you’re not ready to set up your landing page, you can also choose to redirect your landing page in these settings. Simply check the “Active” box and enter your Blog URL into the text box (i.e. http://yourdomain.com/blog/).
  3. New as of Mar 2008 – you now have the option to create a One-Time-Offer on your Home Page The One-Time-Offer (or OTO) will not work in conjunction with the home page “redirect”.

Your Visual Editor (aka WYSIWYG)
While formatting may be pretty straight forward for many of you, there are some key functions here that we thought we should cover. (This is the same when creating pages in the Marketing PRO Pages editor.

Add Video to your Home Page
On the bottom of the page, you will notice a link/ button called “New Media PRO Video”. This button is used for adding video or audio.

Once you click on the button, a window will open showing the edit window to add your video title, video file, descirption etc. for your video file.

Add Video or Audio to your Marketing Pro Page
(note: these instructions are the same with all Visual Editors and are covered within the Marketing PRO section)

Adding a Name Capture
To insert a subscriber form into your home page, first you’ll need to get the form code from your auto-responder service. We recommend AWeber for your auto-responder services. They provide both an HTML and a Javascript code for use. I prefer the Javascript as it provides tracking of basic conversion rates.

While you are editing your home page, enter a headline, such as “Aweber Form Here” where you’d like your sign up form to be placed. Click on the “HTML” button which will bring up a beautiful box full of all the HTML code for your home page.

Now on your keyboard hit + to pull up the “find box”. Type in Aweber Form Here and press . You should land right where your form should go. Highlight those words within the window, and hit + to paste your form code in. Click “update”

If you are using a javascript form, this will not show up in the Visual Editor. You will have to view this directly on your home page.

Creating A One-Time-Offer
To create an OTO for your Home Page, all the editing options listed above are the same. But you’ll notice there is a tab above the Visual Editor menu that says “OTO” Home Page. Click on that tab to move into a new Visual Editor Page. Create your OTO page as you would your home page.

You will only be able to view your OTO page once within your browser, as it is a One Time Offer page :) Actually… if you need to view your OTO page again, clear the cookies from your browser and reload your home page.

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Importing Articles

From your dashboard, go to “Create” » “Import Articles”

What exactly is “Import Articles”? This is a feature that will truly allow your Quan$ite system to run on auto-pilot. If you already have a number articles that are written and ready to go, and you don’t want to load them with a post-dated timestamp one at a time, this is definitely a useful feature. By zipping all your “text file” based articles into one zip file, you can upload them into this feature, choose the interval between posts, and let it go.

When you’re creating your articles for use with the Import Articles feature, here are some key things to remember:

  1. Name each text file starting with a number, a “-“, then the article title. If you have 100 articles, your first article should start with the number “001”. This will ensure that the articles are posted in the correct order.
  2. The first line within the text file should be the article title to keep it consistent throughout all your files.
  3. Use HTML code within the text file to ensure proper alignment of your article. If you aren’t sure how to write HTML, use a web page editing program such as DreamWeaver.
  4. Each zipped file of articles must be for the same category.

Now Import Your Articles

  1. Select the author these articles should be attributed to.
  2. Assuming you followed the formatting directions above, you’ll check the title box to let the system know the article title is in the first line of each file.
  3. Assuming that is all that’s in the first line, you’ll leave this set to “0”.
  4. Set the date that you’d like these articles to start posting.
  5. Set the time of day you’d like the articles posted.
  6. How many days between each of these articles should the system wait before posting another one?
  7. Select the category these articles should be posted under?
  8. Click browse to search your desktop for the Zip file containing your articles.
  9. Click on Import Articles.

This is truly one of those features that is Pushbutton Easy in the Quan$ite system. By setting this to run automatically for you, you’re able to do things such as take that well deserved vacation, concentrate on other promotions for your business, or write even more articles to include later

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Creating a Blog Page

From your Dashboard, go to “Create” » “Blog Page”.

A Blog Page differs from a Blog Post in that a “page” is static and is not included in automated RSS Feeds, social bookmarking tags, etc. The logistics of creating a blog page are pretty much the same as creating a blog post, with a couple of exceptions. In this section we’ll just give you a general outline of a blog page. For more details, see Creating a Post/Article

  1. Page Title (same as Post)
  2. Page Content (same as Post)
  3. Page Tags (same as Post)
  4. Page Podcast (same as Post)
  5. Page Discussion options. Some pages may be best created with the comments and pings turned off. These pages would include “Contact” pages or other pages that fall into that category. This is completely optional depending on the actual purpose of the Blog Page you are creating.
  6. Page status (same as Post)
  7. Page Password (same as Post)
  8. Page Parent. This allows you to create a “hierarchy” of pages. This could be useful in walking someone through a process, or building up information layer by layer.
  9. Page Slug (same as Post)
  10. Page Author (same as Post)
  11. Page Order. The Page Order feature allows you to determine the order in which pages are listed in the “Pages” section of your Blog i360 sidebar (should you choose to show that)
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Creating a New Blog Post/Article

One of the most important elements of building consistent traffic and search engine ranking is creating fresh content on a consistent basis. That is called a “Blog Post.” You’ll find this option under the “Create” menu.

  • Title » Refers to the post title. This should be a keyword rich title that reflects the content of your article.
  • Permalink » Is automatically generated using the title of your post. This becomes the URL of your post. For example, if my post title is “My Blogging 101 Post”, the post slug becomes “my-blogging-101-post”, which in turn makes the URL to that particular article http://MYDOMAIN.COM/blog/my-blogging-101-post/. This creates even more keyword relevance within your site. If your post titles tend to be long winded, more than four or five words, you may want to shorten the post-slug by creating your own within this box. Do not use “spaces” in this box, just “-“ to separate each word to keep URLs consistent throughout your site.
  • Post » Is where you’ll enter your content. Remember that Social Bookmarking sites and RSS Directories will be pulling the first few sentences from here. You’ll want to make sure it is keyword relevant and engaging enough to entice visitors to come over to your site.
  • Tags » Are single words that build your keyword phrase. For instance, if my keyword phrase was “New Media Marketing”, I would enter the tags; new, media, marketing. The tags entered here will create “internal links” to other articles within your site with the same tags as well as allow the Social Bookmarking Sites and Search Engines to index your articles accordingly.
  • Categories » Are a way to sort your articles. These should be
    short one to three word phrases that are keyword rich. These categories
    allow readers to browse through articles that they are interested in,
    along with adding even more keyword relevance to your site.
  • New Media PRO VIDEO » This section is for using the built-in Quan$ite Instant Video Player & Auto-Distribution features. There are several training videos on this powerful traffic, persuasion and profit boosting set of features. You can learn more about the New Media PRO VIDEO here
  • New Media PRO AUDIO » When you’re creating a podcast post, this section is where you’ll enter the multi-media file information. Click on the “Add Media File” button.Once your files are uploaded with the File Manager system, the “location” list is automatically populated for you. Just select the media file you want to use and the system will detect the best settings for it. Next you’ll enter a Title for your podcast. This should be both keyword relevant and podcast relevant. Under “Type” you’ll select the multi-media type that your file is, whether it’s audio or video (this is detected for you if you’ve uploaded your file via the File Manager). You can add more files to the same post by clicking on the “Add Media File” button and repeating these steps.
  • Excerpt » Is where you’ll enter an additional description of your article, or a brief summary. This excerpt may be used within your Quan$ite system when visitors are searching your site for content, browsing through categories or archives, and at RSS Directories and Social Bookmarking sites. It is not necessary to use this option however as the first paragraph of your post will work in the same way.
  • Trackbacks » Are ways for you to comment on another person’s blog. Basically the way this works is, let’s say you’re browsing the net and you run across an article that your readers would love or would completely relate to. You would write a short review of the article, including a link that goes directly to the article you’re mentioning, and then include that link in the Trackbacks section. This will add a “trackback comment” to the article you’re commenting on and let them know you’ve posted on your site about their article. In more general terms, it’s a “remote commenting” tool.
  • Comments & Pings » Allows you to set “comment” settings for individual posts.
  • Password Protect This Post » Is a tool that allows you to protect certain posts from being viewed by anyone without the password. We use this in our Student Site for the MBO Club as a way to protect individual coaching call posts from students other than the one it’s intended for.
  • In-Series » is a way to keep articles within a series together.
    By using this feature, you’ll be able to post portions of your series
    whenever you want, whether there are additional posts in between, and
    the user will still have the ability to read the series in order by
    following links that are embedded at the end of a series article. (Series Settings)

In the right sidebar area:

  • Publish Status » Is automatically set to “Unpublished” which means even if you click on “Save” under in the sidebar, your post will not be seen within your blog until either the status is changed to “Published” or you click the “Publish” button in the sidebar area. Be sure to change this when you’re posting articles, even if you’re changing the Post Timestamp so the article is published on a future date.
  • Published On “Edit” » Allows you to change when the article is actually noted as being posted. If you set this to a future date, the post will not be viewable by the public until that time. If you set it to a past date, the article will be archived appropriates by this timestamp. This feature allows you to pre-load articles so even if you aren’t able to post for the next week or so, you’ll still have new articles being published on your blog. It’s a great tool for when you’re going on that much deserved vacation!
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