I`m a big WordPress fan, because of the control that I have when building websites and publishing content.
If you`re a DIY type of person, then WordPress wins compared to Wix and Squarespace - the pricing for the last two can grow quite high if you plan to include features like e-Commerce into your website. On the other hand, WordPress is free and you`re paying for web hosting and eventually, the theme.
The "powered by WordPress" button should be part of a widgetized area so you should be able to get rid of it.
There are plenty of themes out there built with architects in mind, free or premium like these ones for example. There are also places to search for themes like WordPress.org website. Wordpress tends to have a bigger number of templates compared to other platforms.
Now, no, I am NOT a Hostmonster affiliate. But a few years back we did a website for a hotel asset management firm to show quantifiable web traffic research for their lead generation; this was at the time of the first CMBS reset of around 2011, when distressed hotels were emerging en masse.
Well, we took his site, prettied it up and all that almost useless stuff, and we concentrated on PPC and a content creation regimen. We did it twice, because we did one site on GoDaddy and one site on Hostmonster with virtually the same content, yet redone so as to throw no SEO "demerit" flags with Google of Bing, etc.
Well, this was a preparatory proof study which showed GoDaddy sucked because it had (as far as we could ascertain):
1. Saturated servers, meaning too many sites on too little space with too little core connection, so when it comes to site search, at peak times a place like GoDaddy will prefer possible customers for their services over search bots. (That was all we could surmise for the drastic disparity compared to Hostmonster stats)
2. Hostmonster is not saturated and is centrally situated on the trunk at the time and they are tech and customer support fanatics. (For example, they are not too busy, I talked with HM techs for an hour before they got another call! And I had to shut them up, rather than the other way around! GREEN FLAG!
The difference was, he had an 13 million Alexa ranked site, like 6 visitors a day, 3 of them search bots. On GoDaddy we got it to 1.7 million and on Hostmonster we dipped below 400 K.
And there was NO REASON for us to "cook the data", the verifiable stats spoke for itself. Even if Alexa is not as accurate on sites over 100K, we could not fool Alexa to rank a former 13 million ranked site to 357,000. NO WAY! (Btw, that meant about 100 people a day started to drift in, according to the direct server logs)
And when we did that kind of work, we learned the first link in the chain, the web host, can indeed be the loss of 100 or more leads a month. By the time he was done before he passed away he was ranking with CHM Hotel, HAMA, Warnock and others who spent 10K a month on PPC, while most of his traffic increase was 100 a month PPC and a couple articles a day fashioned on Jim Butler's "The Hotel Lawyer's" website content.
And that within TWO months! And to us, Hostmonster was the most important denominator overall, in addition to boosting PPC and content relevance and magnitude, but as stated, we did that on both test sites.
Don't be fooled, try it yourself as we did. And know many SEOs are not exactly experts in this, be very careful. Many people in Web services are looking for those who do not know anything about the Web. Check their own ranking first!
All said and done, PPC investment is the wisest way to get traffic fast and it is very engaging once you get the hang of the strategies. Wix a few years ago was as bad as webs com, Wordpress hosts some top traffic sites, they are the best BAR NONE in that area of Web development.
IF you go free route, go Wordpress! Blogspot sucks too. Go Wordpress if that is your only option, host on Hostmonster if you go that route. (Popular Web hosts are often playing the "expand when absolutely necessary" game like GoDaddy, Hostmonster stays up to date BEFORE they need it, they are also better than "HostGator" who is clogged with porn sites imo.
Btw, porn hosting sites will devour bandwidth of the whole server complex because they can afford to and the web host doesn't care because they pay up a year in advance. The point is stay off those hosts, for techno reasons.))
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What is the best DIY web host to create a professional website?
Are there better options than wordpress?
I like wix. Super easy to use.
We use squarespace. Easy to use, good social media integration, and works across PC and mobile.
search the forum?
Thanks for the comments. I forgot about squarespace. Will chekc out wix.
JeromeS; I did do a search last night but nothing came up. Did a second search now with slightly different wording and found another thread.
wanted to avoid having that annoying "powered by wordpress" at the bottom of my website.
sorry, sometimes I get snarky- it just seems like we ask the same, over and over...
format
I like wix too. I have 3 websites, makes it really easy.
I`m a big WordPress fan, because of the control that I have when building websites and publishing content.
If you`re a DIY type of person, then WordPress wins compared to Wix and Squarespace - the pricing for the last two can grow quite high if you plan to include features like e-Commerce into your website. On the other hand, WordPress is free and you`re paying for web hosting and eventually, the theme.
The "powered by WordPress" button should be part of a widgetized area so you should be able to get rid of it.
There are plenty of themes out there built with architects in mind, free or premium like these ones for example. There are also places to search for themes like WordPress.org website. Wordpress tends to have a bigger number of templates compared to other platforms.
All the best!
HOSTMONSTER!
Now, no, I am NOT a Hostmonster affiliate. But a few years back we did a website for a hotel asset management firm to show quantifiable web traffic research for their lead generation; this was at the time of the first CMBS reset of around 2011, when distressed hotels were emerging en masse.
Well, we took his site, prettied it up and all that almost useless stuff, and we concentrated on PPC and a content creation regimen. We did it twice, because we did one site on GoDaddy and one site on Hostmonster with virtually the same content, yet redone so as to throw no SEO "demerit" flags with Google of Bing, etc.
Well, this was a preparatory proof study which showed GoDaddy sucked because it had (as far as we could ascertain):
1. Saturated servers, meaning too many sites on too little space with too little core connection, so when it comes to site search, at peak times a place like GoDaddy will prefer possible customers for their services over search bots. (That was all we could surmise for the drastic disparity compared to Hostmonster stats)
2. Hostmonster is not saturated and is centrally situated on the trunk at the time and they are tech and customer support fanatics. (For example, they are not too busy, I talked with HM techs for an hour before they got another call! And I had to shut them up, rather than the other way around! GREEN FLAG!
The difference was, he had an 13 million Alexa ranked site, like 6 visitors a day, 3 of them search bots. On GoDaddy we got it to 1.7 million and on Hostmonster we dipped below 400 K.
And there was NO REASON for us to "cook the data", the verifiable stats spoke for itself. Even if Alexa is not as accurate on sites over 100K, we could not fool Alexa to rank a former 13 million ranked site to 357,000. NO WAY! (Btw, that meant about 100 people a day started to drift in, according to the direct server logs)
And when we did that kind of work, we learned the first link in the chain, the web host, can indeed be the loss of 100 or more leads a month. By the time he was done before he passed away he was ranking with CHM Hotel, HAMA, Warnock and others who spent 10K a month on PPC, while most of his traffic increase was 100 a month PPC and a couple articles a day fashioned on Jim Butler's "The Hotel Lawyer's" website content.
And that within TWO months! And to us, Hostmonster was the most important denominator overall, in addition to boosting PPC and content relevance and magnitude, but as stated, we did that on both test sites.
Don't be fooled, try it yourself as we did. And know many SEOs are not exactly experts in this, be very careful. Many people in Web services are looking for those who do not know anything about the Web. Check their own ranking first!
All said and done, PPC investment is the wisest way to get traffic fast and it is very engaging once you get the hang of the strategies. Wix a few years ago was as bad as webs com, Wordpress hosts some top traffic sites, they are the best BAR NONE in that area of Web development.
IF you go free route, go Wordpress! Blogspot sucks too. Go Wordpress if that is your only option, host on Hostmonster if you go that route. (Popular Web hosts are often playing the "expand when absolutely necessary" game like GoDaddy, Hostmonster stays up to date BEFORE they need it, they are also better than "HostGator" who is clogged with porn sites imo.
Btw, porn hosting sites will devour bandwidth of the whole server complex because they can afford to and the web host doesn't care because they pay up a year in advance. The point is stay off those hosts, for techno reasons.))
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