Last Updated on July 29, 2024

What Are Sebo Landing Pages?

Sebo Landing Pages are set up on our Kinsta server as part of the verticals multisite.  In situations where a client has an unusable CMS, they don’t want to give us access, or we otherwise need to be able to manage PPC landing pages separately, we can set up a subdomain on their domain. We would then build out the landing page on our server and have/maintain full control over the landing pages. Since we will be setting these up as subdomains, MCs will need to choose the subdomain name they want to use (i.e. try.sebomarketing.com).

Setting Up a New Site

  1. Navigate to https://landingpages.verticals.sebomarketing.com/ for the new client and login to the backend
  2. Click “My Sites” in the top-left corner
  3. Select “Network Admin” > Sites
  4. Hover over the landingpages.verticals.sebomarketing.com and select “Clone”
  5. Go through all of the guided steps (give the New Site a title and URL (don’t worry, the URL will be temporary until we get things on the server side figured out))
  6. Click “Clone”

Creating a Landing Page

  1. Since you cloned the site, there will already be an example page in the “Pages” section (left-hand menu). Feel free to use this page — keep the sections you want and edit the content
    1. The NS Cloner Plugin has been having issues with copying everything on the site over correctly (theme settings, page settings, etc.). If the new site you cloned doesn’t already have “The 7” in place, click here for some workaround steps).
  2. Make sure all placeholder content is replaced with relevant content. Make sure all phone numbers, emails, and anything else like that is replaced
  3. Configure the form to go to the correct confirmation page
  4. Configure form notifications to go to the correct email address

Setup DNS Records to Point to Sebo’s Kinsta

This step can take a bit of time. Kinsta will have you add DNS records 3 times You will want to open the client’s DNS in one tab and Sebo’s Kinsta account in another. You will be switching back and forth between the two.

First Step

  1. Login to the client’s DNS (once you have access)
    1. From the main page, navigate to “Websites”
    2. Select your client’s website from the list of websites (if there are more than one)
    3. Select “DNS”. Make sure “Records” is selected
  2. Now, in another tab, open up Sebo’s Kinsta account
    1. In the search bar in the top, search for “Sebo Vertical Exploration”
    2. Select “Domains” from the left-hand menu
    3. In the “Domain List” section, click “Add domain” > enter in the client’s domain: subdomainname.clientdomainname.com (i.e. try.sebomarketing.com)
    4. IMPORTANT: Before you click “Add domain” make sure you open the “Advanced Options” and make sure “Add domain with wildcard (recommended)” is NOT checked. It won’t work if this is checked.
    5. Click “Add domain”
    6. A window will pop up that gives you info for a TXT record
  3. Head back to the Client’s DNS tab
    1. Click “+ add record”
    2. Change “Type” to TXT. For “Name”, add the “Name/host” provided by Kinsta. In the “Content” field, paste the “Value” from Kinsta
    3. Click “Save”
  4. Head back to your Sebo Kinsta tab
    1. Click the “Verify domain” button > “OK, I’ve done it”

Second Step

  1. After a few minutes (you may need to refresh the page), the domain you just added will show up as a line item in the Domains list. There will be a “Verify domain” button. Click it
    1. It will give you info for a TXT record as well as a CNAME record
  2. Navigate back to the Client’s DNS tab
    1. Click “+ add record”
      1. Change “Type” to TXT. For “Name”, add the “Name/host” provided by Kinsta. In the “Content” field, paste the “Value” from Kinsta
    2. Click “+ add record” again
      1. Change “Type” to CNAME. For “Name”, add the “Name/host” provided by Kinsta. In the “Target” field, paste the “Domain Name” from Kinsta
      2. IMPORTANT: “Proxy Status” will be turned on by default. Make sure you turn this off. Kinsta won’t be able to verify if this is enabled

Third Step

  1. Head back to your Sebo Kinsta account tab. Your new domain should say “Domain verification pending”. After a few minutes (you may have to refresh), a button will pop up that says “Point Domain”. Click it
    1. It will give you info for another CNAME record
  2. Go back to the Client’s DNS
    1. Add a CNAME record based on the info from Kinsta
  3. Go back to Kinsta, click “Point Domain” > “OK, I’ve done it”

Finish Connecting the Site

  1. Change Site URL in WordPress to match the domain
    1. From the verticals.sebomarketing.com backend, hover over “My Sites” in the top left, hover over “Network Admin”, then click “Sites”
    2. Find the new site you have been setting up. Hover over it and then click “Edit”
    3. On the page that pops up, change the “Site Address (URL) field to the new subdomain
  2. Do a database find/replace
    1. From the left menu, select “Tools” > Search & Replace
    2. In the “Search for” field, put the old URL
    3. In the “Replace with” field, put the new URL
    4. Scroll down and check the “Select all tables” box
    5. Uncheck the “Dry Run” box
    6. Select the “Save changes to Database” option
    7. Click “Do Search & Replace”
  3. Confirm the client’s subdomain is working and live

NS Cloner Not Copying All Settings (Workaround)

Only follow the steps in the setting if the NS Cloner (from step 1) did not copy all site settings over correctly

  1. On the new site that you created (the one that you cloned from “landingpages.verticals.sebomarketing.com”), Activate “the7” them by clicking on Appearance > Themes > Activate the7
  2. In another tab, open the backend of landingpages.verticals.sebomarketing.com. Click on Theme Options (top bar) > “Export/Import Options. Copy all of the code in the “Export/Import Options field
  3. Go back to your new site. Click on Theme Options > Export/Import Options. Paste all of the code you just copied over the existing code. Click “Save Options”
  4. Click Theme Options > Page Titles
    1. Click “Title” > “Disabled”
    2. Click “Breadcrumbs” > “Disabled”
    3. Click “Save Options”
  5. Now, we need to copy the page over. In your landingpages.verticals.sebomarketing.com tab, navigate to the “Pages” section. There should only be one page in there. Click “Edit”
    1. From the “Classic Mode” editor, make sure the “Text” tab (top right) is selected
    2. Copy all of the code in the main field.
  6. Head back to your new site and navigate to the “Pages” section.
    1. Click “Edit” on the existing page
    2. From the “Classic Mode” editor, make sure the “Text” tab (top right) is selected.
    3. Paste the code into the main field (over the existing code
    4. Set the “Page Attributes” dropdown (right menu) to “Microsite”
    5. In “Microsite” (right menu) select “top bar, header & top bar”, “floating menu”, and “bottom bar”
    6. In “Sidebar Options” (right menu) select “Disabled”
    7. Click “Update”
  7. Lastly, we need to configure Gravity Forms. We will need to reenter the license key
    1. Head to gravityforms.com
    2. Login with the “sebo.marketing” user
    3. Copy the license key from the main page
    4. Paste it into the correct field in the backend of your new site