How long does it usually take you to desing your landing page(s)?

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AMagz

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Yeah, I'm an affiliate marketing newb, and I was trying to create my very first landing page in Photoshop and it's taking forever lol.

There's so much to think about as far as design and placement goes...it boggles my mind a little bit.

Does it get better and easier with time?

How long does it usually take you guys to design a landing page?

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Some people say 4-5 hours for them, but they have at least some experience in web design. I suggest finding free website templates that could work as a landing page. Then edit it as you wish. You don't want an all image landing page. You need actual text on the page, inserting text into photoshop for your image does not count. If you just place an image with a click me button, you will not get as high of a quality score. Also it looks cheesy, and you could get penalized by google. I use free templates that are premade for the niche I choose. Then open up dreamweaver and edit the code, and insert my own text. The text also helps when trying to rank better in search engines, depending on your keywords, density, ect.
 
shudogg said:
Some people say 4-5 hours for them, but they have at least some experience in web design. I suggest finding free website templates that could work as a landing page. Then edit it as you wish. You don't want an all image landing page. You need actual text on the page, inserting text into photoshop for your image does not count. If you just place an image with a click me button, you will not get as high of a quality score. Also it looks cheesy, and you could get penalized by google. I use free templates that are premade for the niche I choose. Then open up dreamweaver and edit the code, and insert my own text. The text also helps when trying to rank better in search engines, depending on your keywords, density, ect.
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Templates are the way to go to start. You can load them up and edit until your heart is content.
Also it works much better for design changes and tweaks so to speak. One word changes make a huge difference and doing everything in PS will limit you to do so.
 
shudogg said:
Some people say 4-5 hours for them, but they have at least some experience in web design. I suggest finding free website templates that could work as a landing page. Then edit it as you wish. You don't want an all image landing page. You need actual text on the page, inserting text into photoshop for your image does not count. If you just place an image with a click me button, you will not get as high of a quality score. Also it looks cheesy, and you could get penalized by google. I use free templates that are premade for the niche I choose. Then open up dreamweaver and edit the code, and insert my own text. The text also helps when trying to rank better in search engines, depending on your keywords, density, ect.
Click to expand...

Templates are the way to go to start. You can load them up and edit until your heart is content.
Also it works much better for design changes and tweaks so to speak. One word changes make a huge difference and doing everything in PS will limit you to do so.
Click to expand...
Thanks shudogg (great blog btw) and Jason

The template idea sounds good...do you get these through your affiliate network or have 'em made for you? (newb question; since I have only signed up to one network so far).

yea, I'm trying to steer clear of the whole one-big-button pages. I looked at sitestomp.com 's examples for inspiration.

4-5 hours sounds about what it would take me though, good to know I'm not the only one.
 
Typically I just pull one of old templates and modify it ... once you have 4 or 5 solid landing pages you can always re-use them an infinite amount of times.
 
I don't really think you should ever settle for one lp, I like to see the lp as an ever evolving process based on your testing.
 
just taught myself web design (i'm a coder) and got it down to 4-5 hours in photoshop to design and then export to html sliced. load up in web builder, add text 1 hour including research for bullets and a couple of paragraphs of content then 20 minutes tidying up the text/links css in dreamweaver. i expect to get that down to a morning or afternoons work, 4 hours all in.

i also found grabbing (not ripping) someone elses lp was a big help. just drop the opacity down real low on it in photoshop and draw your original design over the top using the lp as a guide. you can also use Prt Sc on windows to grab, err, inspiration from the offer page as well, think testimonials etc.

If you can get a copy of that Photoshop TopSecret course that will really up your PS skills quick. That dude is class
 
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