For the sake of this article I will assume that you have just purchased a plr ebook publishing package and want to know how to prepare the sales pages for your plr ebooks and upload them to your website. I am also assuming that you have a basic knowledge of HTML code and are also familiar with Paypal (http://www.paypal.com).
When you download a basic plr ebook package to your hard-drive and open the folder, you will usually find several more folders inside that contain the ebook, graphics, webpages, information documents about distribution rights.
Before you upload everything to your website you will need to modify the sales page.
Modifying The Sales Page
Open the sales page in your browser and read through it to find out what needs to be changed. The parts you need to modify will probably be in bold text and in a different color from the main sales copy. They will most likely be placed in square brackets. For example:
From the desk of [Your Name]
[List Bonuses Here, If Any]
You can easily modify the sales page by clicking on the “view source” option on your browser. Copy and paste the source text to a new file in your html editor. Now, simply delete the square brackets and everything between them and type in your own information.
With a plr package you can probably change the sales text, the product price and the bonus offers to suit your own requirements, but check the terms and conditions first to make sure.
The next big thing to deal with is the payment button. I am assuming that you want your customers to pay through Paypal.
Log in to your Paypal account, click on the “Merchant Services” tab and make a “Buy Now” button. You will need to set the price and give the product a name. Make sure it is a name that you will understand so that you know what is being sold once purchases start to come in!
Next, if the product designer has made a nice “Buy Now” button graphic that you would like to use, click on the “Use your own button image” radio button in the “customize button” section. Now enter the url of the graphic. (You can do this even if you have not yet uploaded the graphic – just type in the intended url!) It might look something like this:
http://www.myaffiliatewebsite/ebooksales/graphics/buynowgraphic1.jpg
Now click on “Step 3 Customize advanced features (optional)” and set the first three radio buttons to “no” and then check the two boxes that read “Take customer to a specific page (URL) after checkout cancellation”, and “Take customer to a specific page (URL) after successful checkout”. Now enter the url of these two pages on your website, for example:
http://www.myaffiliatewebsite/ebooksales/cancel.html
and
http://www.myaffiliatewebsite/ebooksales/thankyou.html
Don’t worry if you have not yet made those pages! I’ll talk about them in my next article. All we are doing right now is setting up an plr ebook sales page.
When everything is set, press the “Create button” button and copy the code. Now go back to your HTML editor, find the place where the “Buy now” button should be located in the sales page and paste the code into the page.
One other thing you will need to do is to make sure that all the graphics will appear on the sales page when you upload them and it to your website. Go through the HTML code and locate all the images. If necessary, change the url of each image to the url where the images will be located on your website. It is a good idea to make a separate directory on your website for the graphics and place them all in there.
All you have to do now is to save the page and upload the sales page and the graphics to the appropriate directories on your website. Once that is done, type the sales page url into your web browser and see how it looks. If all the graphics are there, you have done a good job! Check the “Buy Now” button. If it looks good, click on it and make sure that you are taken through to the Paypal purchase page and that the details on that page are all correct.
Now that you know how to upload a plr ebook sales page to your website, the next stage is to get the product and the “thank you” page uploaded, and also the “order cancellation” page. Let’s deal with all that in the next article.