Beginners Guide to Landing Pages on Amazon AWS

Learn to build, host and track landing pages or simple web sites, using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

4.50 (52 reviews)
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English
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Digital Marketing
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1,305
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2.5 hours
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Oct 2016
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$44.99
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What you will learn

Use Amazon AWS to host your landing page or simple web sites, reliably and cheaply

Learn how to register domain names on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Understand how to use AWS Route 53 Domain Name System (DNS)

Send and receive emails from your new domain name

Capture email address for marketing

Manipulate FREE HTML themes to create truly compelling landing pages

Add social media sharing buttons

Track visitors with Google Analytics

Apply goals and filters with Google Analytics

Visualize and gain insights from visitor behaviours

Description

Have an idea and need a landing page or simple web site?

Unsure where to start, or worried about costs and flexibility?

Maybe you're just fed up of wrangling with Wordpress?

Well, thanks to some amazing web services, you can build and host your own professional landing page, for simply the cost of your domain name. What's more these landing pages or simple web sites, are more reliable, more flexible and offer greater insights than some of the paid for options.

My name is Ben, and I've been building and selling software for the last 22 years. I have built a popular Elixir programming course on Udemy with over 1.9k students, you can see my five star reviews.

Why a course on landing pages?

All the current landing page solutions frustrate me.

Wordpress requires a database, which means that I'm going to have to understand it, and maintain it. Also Wordpress and all it's plugins need to be updated otherwise you are vulnerable to attacks. Not to mention the associated costs.

Site builder services like LaunchRock and SquareSpace are inflexible and quickly become costly.

Landing pages are often for testing out ideas, if those ideas fail, you don't want to have spent too much on them. Yet if those ideas take off you want to gradually build on them and trust that they are reliable and professional.

So I decided to build this course. Landing pages and simple web sites (those that don't use a database) should have the following criteria:

  • Cheap yet professional
  • Easy to set up and maintain
  • Flexible to accommodate future changes and scenarios
  • Reliable and fast downloading on my customers web browsers
  • Use my custom domain name, and allow me to send and receive emails from my custom domain
  • Capture email addresses using the email platform I choose
  • Track my visitors behaviours, so that I can get insights into how to sell more effectively to them


By following best practices, cherry picking the best services and using my developer knowhow, I have built a course that fulfils these criteria.

I promise, it doesn’t matter whether you’re 16 or 60, absolutely ANYONE will love this course.
You can take away the skills to make your ideas real. The only limit? Your imagination.

Don't settle for tiresome Wordpress sites, save your money from site builders, and learn how to build and host your own landing pages and simple web sites.

AND REMEMBER... if you are unhappy with this course, then I'm unhappy - I offer a full money back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchase.

Go ahead, click the "Take This Course" button. Why not? You’ve got nothing to lose and you can make those ideas real.

Content

Welcome to Go Landing Pages!

Welcome to Go Landing Pages!
About the course and prerequisites

Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Introduction to Amazon AWS
Register and get Familiar with Key AWS Services, S3, Route 53, etc

Finding and Registering Domain Names

Lean domain naming
Quick Overview of the Domain Name System (DNS)
How Amazon's Route 53 Works
Register Your Domain Name with Route 53

Hosting on Amazon S3

Overview of how to host a web page on Amazon S3
Create a primary S3 bucket
Review of landing page hosting using Amazon S3
Create a root S3 bucket
Link Route 53 domain name to the primary bucket
Link Route 53 domain name to the root / naked bucket

Adding Email Functionality

Send / Receive Emails from your Domain: Registering with Fastmail
Send / Receive Emails from your Domain: Registering with Google Apps 2
Register for the Mailchimp Email Service
Mailchimp Generated Email Capture Form
Verify Marketing Emails Using SPF & DKIM

Using Themes with your Landing Pages

Overview of Theme Sites, and Download a Theme
Modify the HTML to Add Your Own Content to the Theme
Where to Find Good Stock Photo Resources
Add Images into your Landing Page
Fix the URL Links, Highlight Keywords, and Embed Our Email Capture Form
Switch the Banner Background for an Image. Add Social Media Sharing Buttons
Upload and Test Our New Themed Landing Page

Analytics and Tracking Visitor Behaviour

Install and configure Google Analytics, add goals and IP address filters
Register for Inspectlet and exclude your IP address

Screenshots

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Reviews

Shabazz
January 5, 2020
The Instructor's pace for teaching the course is good, however some of the steps executed on AWS are different when you try to follow along, this is because AWS has changed it's console and services interface. Also the latest AWS documentation on "setting up a static website using custom domain" seems to suggest a contrary approach/method (when creating the two buckets. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosting-custom-domain-walkthrough.html#root-domain-walkthrough-test-website I couldn't get the other bucket to redirect request
Jaime
April 15, 2019
I think he does a good job to explain things to a beginner and I like his approach coming from a thorough analysis of various alternatives, and finally getting to what he considers is the one that solves most of the problems ha faced in the past.
Samori
May 5, 2018
I got exactly what I was looking for from this course: a process to set up landing pages on AWS. The couple of extra tools along the way were bonus for me, but the course itself was great: clear, easy to follow, and quick, and it reinforces Route53 and Google Analytics for me, which is great. For my next landing pages, I will follow the course exactly. Thanks, Ben!
Miroslaw
November 21, 2017
I am so satisfied with this course! Pure useful knowledge without blah blah, the path for lazy people who has no time for useless knowledge. I recommend it for people who are looking for HOWTO knowledge. Thank You so much for the education, I like very to learn in that style.
Sree
October 22, 2016
Very clear steps to follow and fantastic list of resources to help one get started. Would recommend this course.

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