I’ve just released a new sales page template for ClickBump Engine owners.

The template is called “Salespage” and is designed to bring the ranking power of CE3 to Sales pages.

If you have seen my CE3 Salespage at clickbumpengine.com, you have seen the sales page template. I’ve just now gotten around to porting it fully to  CE3 so I thought it would be helpful to do a quick tutorial on how you can set up an instant sales page using this new premium CE3 template.

First, once you’ve downloaded the new template, you can install it into an existing CE3 site with one click. Just navigate to “ClickBump Engine > General Settings > Add New Template” and upload the salespage.zip file you obtained from the member’s dashboard.

No ordinary sales page template

Once you’ve installed the sales page template, you merely select it from the template selector pulldown menu and click “Save Changes” to instantly apply the salespage template to your site.

To make your sales page content, simply open your home page and edit it to include your headings, testimonials, product screenshots and images and bullet points. The template’s stylesheet does the rest.

Here’s a look at clickbumpengine.com along with a larger preview to show how each element is marked up in the editor (click the image to the left).

You can see from the screenshot link that you simply use standard markup such as heading tags (H1-h3), blockquotes (for stylized testimonials) and bullet points (which automatically get styled with neat red checkmark images next to each bullet). The sales page template does the rest.

An SEO optimized sales page template made for WordPress

For the “Add To Cart” image and pricing, you merely add a bit of copy/paste text into the “Home Footer Area” widget from “Appearance > Widgets” and the Add To Cart button is automatically inserted at the bottom of your page.

For example, here is the text you place into the “Home Footer Area” widget…

<p><a style=”display: block; height: 250px;” href=”https://link-to-your-shopping-cart“><span class=”line-through>Regular Price: $97</span>. Limited Time Only: $57</a></p>

Additionally, if you want to add a “Money Back Guarantee” seal, you can just add a paragraph with class=”guarantee”, to the “Home Footer Area” widget (see copy/paste code snippet below). The sales page template will automatically insert a money back guarantee seal for you. Here’s the copy/paste code…

<p>Full 100% Money Back Refund if not completely satisfied!</p><p><a style=”display: block; height: 250px;” href=”https://link-to-your-shopping-cart”><span>Regular Price: $97</span>. Limited Time Only: $57</a>. Order the sales page template today.</p>

With ClickBump Engine, its very easy to manage images that appear on your site, since you can upload them via the media manager or directly to a post using the image upload above the editor window.

Since ClickBump Engine is smart enough to separate your product post images (the ones that appear above your post) from the images that you’ve placed into your content and review text (the ones that you insert into your posts themselves), you can easily manage multiple sets of images.

If you want to have specific product images appear above your posts, all you have to do is head over to theme options > misc settings and enable the box marked “Show Product Images”. This is a new setting in CE4 since it was the default in previous versions that focused more on niche sites. This is to reflect the fact that thousands of site owners now use CE4 for everything from traditional niche focused sites to much larger authority sites and everything in between.

If you want to enable this feature, you will simply need to name your product images with an underscore character preceeding the filename in order to flag these images for display as product images. For example, _blue-widget1.jpg, _blue-widget2.jpg, etc…

This will prevent any images that are not preceeded with an underscore character from appearing above your product posts. Then you are free to use these images inside your posts.

As you can see from this screenshot of the new Premium template, Adsensed, the product posts are assembled neatly above the content while the content images are displayed with text wrap inside the post itself.

One of the cool things about building sites with WordPress is that its an extremely robust feature set. It gives you all the tools you’ll ever need to launch a content- rich, well organized (and categorized) site that draws in search traffic to allow you to make money from home.

However, as powerful as this blog software is, especially with the vast array of blog templates that are available, there has always been a few things that annoyed me about the default WordPress setup. In particular, since I launch a lot of sites each year in various niches, I find myself having to repeat the same steps over and over when setting up a blog in WordPress.

For example, once my WordPress site is built, I have to do the following…

1. Edit the name of the site to match my main keyword phrase
2. Edit the site’s tagline to reflect the main theme of my site
3. Remove the default “about” page from the site and go to the trash to “permanently delete” it
4. Remove the default “hello world” post and permanently delete it.
5. Set up the site for indexing by search engines (the default setting since WordPress 2.7 has been to block search engines)
6. Set up my permalinks structure so that my page links are human and search engine friendly (clickbump.com/ce, as opposed to clickbump.com/?post_id=3)
7. Install, Activate and configure my chosen theme or site template.
8. Copy and paste my Google Analytics code into the site
9. Copy and paste my Google Adsense code into the site (or alternately, my affiliate link when deploying a review site)

All in all, once I’m done I’ve wasted about a half hour of time and I haven’t even created a single piece of content yet. What’s more, since most of this stuff is spread over several nested menus and screens, it make a minute of work seem like an hour.

So after about a dozen times of using this redundant method of launching websites with WordPress, I decided I had to find a better way. I needed to find some way of automating this process down to a few clicks, preferably only 1.

That’s when I had a thought to create an automated WordPress plugin that would do all of this for me with one click.

Once I set out to do this, it occurred to me that it would also be good, while I was programming this plugin to go about deleting those default pages and adjusting the blog settings for maximum SEO, to also go ahead and have the software create and install my main product post template as well as my contact, privacy and affiliate disclaimer pages. And for good measure, I’d also include my Adsense code settings as well as the default Google Analytics and my Google Webmaster tools verification code.

Once I had finished with this plugin, I decided to call it ClickBump JumpStart for WordPress and make it available as an installable plugin that turbocharges my adsense site creator software, buy this I mean ClickBump Engine, putting site deployment on autopilot.

The result of the integration of these two tools is that I’m now able to crank out an affiliate, adsense or CPA site in less than a few minutes, just by clicking a couple of buttons. Its pretty amazing to see a stock WordPress installation turn into a robust, Niche Adsense site, complete with the default pages and dressed in a highly optimized and attractive theme, tested and proven to excel at conversions, all in a few seconds.

I hope to have  a video of the process up and running here soon (once I get Camtasia installed and working on my PC), to show you just how fast this process works to help you start to make money blogging. Until then, head over to the ClickBump JumpStartJumpStart page and check out the full description and what owners are saying about this incredible site deployment engine.

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In order to get accurate results (especially in the beginning phases of a site deployment, you need to make sure that your own visits and activity on the site are not showing up in the Google Analytics reporting data.

Google provides a tool designed to do just that. Its called the Filter Manager and here’s how you use it to exclude your Home and Work IP from your site’s traffic data:

1. Access Google Analytics
2. Choose the account you want to edit and click “Analytics Settings” from the top left menu.
3. You will see a table listing your sites under this account and below this table you will see three columns. The last column should be labeled “Filter Manager”. Click on the link for “Filter Manager”.
4. Once in Filter Manager, you will see a grid listing of you existing filters (if you have already set up any). Click “+ Add Filter” located at the top right of the Filters table. This will allow you to input a new filter as described below.
5. Under “Filter Name” I use something like “Exclude Home PC’ or “Exclude Work PC”. You will need to set up a separate filter for each IP you want to exclude.
6. Next, from the pulldown menu, change it to “Exclude All Traffic From An IP Address” and enter your IP address with forward slashes in front of the periods like so xx\.xx\.xx\.xx where “xx” is your actual IP numbers. You first need to find your IP address.
7. Next, select your website profiles from the “Available Website Profiles” box and move them over to the “Selected Website Profiles” box using the right arrow button located between the two boxes.
8. Finally, click “Save Changes”
9. You will need to repeat this procedure for each IP you want to exclude from your analytics tracking data.