TypePad Pages as Sales Landing Pages

I got an interesting question about TypePad pages today from a client:

Q. As I understand how the feature works, a page must be related to a blog.  Therefore, if I wanted to set up a stand alone page, I would need to secure a url, set it up as a blog and then create the page.  Am I correct in my thinking here?

If so, if a page is the only thing that is associated with a blog, will the page open directly when someone enters the blog’s URL?

I would like to create pages for each of my books (similar to www.4SecretsBook.com).  Right now, that site is a blog on which people can comment – which as I understand it they cannot do with a TypePad page.  I would like to have 4SecretsBook.com be a static page, rather than one that acts more like a blog.

I would also like to use TypePad pages to create sales pages.  Am I correct in assuming that I can do all of these things using TypePad Pages?

A. TypePad pages are associated with blogs.  The only difference is they do not have the interactive features of a blog post and you can name the URL. 

They are not set up on separate blogs; they are pages on the blog.  Here's an example of a page I set up on my personal blog:

http://www.slim-people.com/marathon_training.html

When you set up a blog with TypePad, you have a default URL that will be associated with the blog.  You can always redirect a special URL for a book or something to the TypePad URL.  You could also set up a blog with just a page on it.

Now, as I thought about this some more, I realized that of course this client is right on target.  If you have the TypePad Pro account you can set up an unlimited number of blogs.  Theoretically a "blog" could be simply a page with all the details about your product/book/service.

If you're using TypePad pages in a creative way, please post a link in the comments section so we can check it out!

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Comments

[Craig McGinty]

I'm just in the middle of putting together a simple 6/7 page site using the Pages option, that draws on one of the standard templates within TypePad.

In effect you could design and host any number of "normal" sites like a web design company does and run them through TypePad.

You've even got a wide selection of TypePad templates to show people so they can pick and choose one, send across some words and photos and you could have their site up and running in 24 hours.

[Kirsten Farris]

I just built a sample 5 page website with some basic instructions on it for a client. It took less than an hour to put it together, and now my client can fill in the content, add pictures, etc...
Check it out through my post:
http://www.kirstenfarris.com/2007/06/you_can_build_a.html