Enabling Landing Page Sites

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Setting Up Landing Page Sites

If you attempt to access the Landing Page Designer without creating a landing page site, then you will see a message stating that you currently have no landing sites-enabled.

1. Click Settings in the left toolbar.
2. Click Sites, located under Tracking in the left panel.
3. Click    Options > Add Site.  
   
   
4. Enter a short name for your website in the Short Site Name text field.
5. Select one of the following website types from the Site Type drop-down menu:
   • Main Site
   • Microsite or Brochure
   • Blog or Informative
   • Help or Forum
   • Social
6. Enter the domain name URL in the Domain Name/URL text field.
   Note: The format of this should be subdomain.yourdomain.com.
   For example, a blog with a domain of Constant Contact could be blog.constantcontact.com.
7. Optionally, click the Make Available in Landing Page Builder checkbox.
8. Click Add Site.
    

    

Adding CNAME Records

Every landing page will have a default .pages.services attached to the landing page site URL. 

Without CNAME records, this is what your URL looks like:
 

With CNAME records, this is what your URL looks like:
 

You will need to add a CNAME record to your tracked site in order to remove the .pages.services within the URL.

To add CNAME records, do the following: 

1. Log in to your domain host.
2. Locate the host's domain settings, CNAME settings, or DNS management. 
3. Navigate to where you are able to add CNAME records/aliases.
4. Enter your landing page subdomain as the host or alias.
5. Enter pages.services as the value destination or points to link.

Consider the following example:

In addition, you will notice a timestamp (domain.com/landingpage?ts=123...) appended to the end of your landing page URL when you click to visit the live page from the editor. This link parameter is not necessary and can be deleted.

This is a timestamp of that publication and is not intended to be used for sharing purposes. You can delete anything after the question mark (?) in your landing page URLs.

Refer to Changing Landing Page URLs for more information on CNAME records and DKIM implementation.

Note: A domain host is where your site’s domain is registered. These domain hosts include such hosts like GoDaddy, NameCheap, and BlueHost. Domain settings are sometimes labeled as Manage Domains or DNS Records and may be under advanced settings.

Accessing Secure Pages

Lead Gen & CRM landing pages are secure.

To access a secure version of your landing page with the https:// prefix, do the following:

1. Click Landing Pages in the left toolbar.
2. Create or edit a landing page.
3. Click   Page Settings in the left panel.
4. Locate the Funnel URL–Secure field.

The URL in the Funnel URL–Secure field is the URL of the secure landing page. It will change depending on if you have CNAME records set up.

Your new URL will be as follows: 

By default, landing pages created in Lead Gen & CRM are secure. They will have the https:// URL prefix. In addition, any asset provided by Lead Gen & CRM —media center links, uploaded images, and the like—are, by default, secure. This means that unsecured content is brought in from external sources. As such, you will need to change any unsecured links on your page to secured links.

Refer to Understanding Landing Page Security: HTTP and HTTPS for more information on how to access a page's secure URL and how to attend to unsecured content on landing pages.

Subdomain and Slug Differences

When creating landing pages in Lead Gen & CRM, the subdomain is what is used so that you can track your pages and link them to campaigns.

As an example, if you want to set up a campaign to track your promotions the landing page should be set up as something akin to promotions.domain.com. After that, you can set up a campaign to track everything on that subdomain.

Slugs differ from subdomains. The subdomain is defined when you make the site, and it encompasses all pages within the site. The slug is defined when you create the individual landing page.

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