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Success getting Xsite Pro sites ranked?

by katied772
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Unlike what seems like the majority of people, I do not like working in Wordpress. I do love Xsite Pro though and think I will probably continue doing my sites with that. My concern is with getting the sites ranked well. I know WP is supposed to be good for that purpose. Has anyone had experience getting their Xsite Pro sites ranked well in Google? How quickly and what did you do? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    From what software a site is built has very, very little to do with how well you can rank it, Katie.

    It's true that Wordpress has available things like the all-in-one SEO plug-in, said to help with ranking, but these toys are only doing things which you can do in other ways.

    How well your site ranks will be determined by its on-page and (mostly) off-page SEO, just like any other site. This really shouldn't be a consideration at all.

    I also don't use Wordpress, never have done for my niche sites, and haven't found it a "ranking handicap" in any way.
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  • Profile picture of the author katied772
    Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

    XSite Pro works very well. I only use v.1 - it is still good enough for my needs and I see no reason to upgrade.

    Like you, I don't like WP all that much. Actually, I do, but I don't like the headache of keeping it updated and it gets hacked too easily. Alright if you have 5 blogs but when you have 50 it becomes a major PITA.

    No problems ranking with XSite Pro. I recommend using not just H1 tags (a bare necessity) but also H2 tags for your sub-headings. Same goes for Wordpress.

    SEO-wise, Google seems to love XSite Pro as much as Wordpress. One exception though - WP seems to have the edge IMO in terms of Google crawling it like crazy if you regularly update (and automatically ping) your blog.
    I do understand and use good on-page SEO. Not done much external though. I wonder if just updating and adding content on a regular basis would help the sites to be crawled more frequently like blogs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by katied772 View Post

      Not done much external though.
      Off-page SEO is the primary determinant of how a site ranks. That's why questions like "from what CMS the site is built" have so very little to do with ranking.

      Originally Posted by katied772 View Post

      I wonder if just updating and adding content on a regular basis would help the sites to be crawled more frequently like blogs.
      It does.

      There's a "learning-process" for search-engines. The more regularly you update a site's contents, the more frequently Google (and others, I think) will eventually learn to index it. (This forum seems to get indexed every 15/20 minutes because of its huge activity.)

      But all of this is looking, in SEO terms, at 5% of what matters and ignoring the other 95%.

      I know it's not what you want to hear, but off-page SEO is the primary determinant of how a site ranks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thamisgith
    I have some XSP sites on page one of Google for rather competitive keywords. It took a while but it worked out in the end and they make me money every day. I think WP might have got there a little faster - based on my experience with other sites/blogs. However, all's well that ends well and it's definitely possible to rank XSP.

    I just did normal backlinking to get them there. Articles, Hubs, Squidoo, profiles. All the usual, mind numbing stuff - but it works.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Rodman
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      Assuming you're doing everything you should be doing (Link Building), then XsitePro sites rank fine. Back when Xsitepro v1 came out, I loved it and build a few sites that still bring in really good money.

      With most content management tools these days, whatever code they spit out is going to be fine for SEO. Xsitepro does put the content first, then the navbar and that's helpful due to Google's First link priority on anchor text.

      Wordpress is great, but I don't share the love that many others do. At the same time, Xsitepro is ok but I think I've moved past it. I don't really like the funky way that the templates work. It's really hard to change the code, withouth Xsitepro changing something back when it publishes.
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      • Profile picture of the author katied772
        Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

        XSite Pro works very well. I only use v.1 - it is still good enough for my needs and I see no reason to upgrade.

        Like you, I don't like WP all that much. Actually, I do, but I don't like the headache of keeping it updated and it gets hacked too easily. Alright if you have 5 blogs but when you have 50 it becomes a major PITA.

        No problems ranking with XSite Pro. I recommend using not just H1 tags (a bare necessity) but also H2 tags for your sub-headings. Same goes for Wordpress.

        SEO-wise, Google seems to love XSite Pro as much as Wordpress. One exception though - WP seems to have the edge IMO in terms of Google crawling it like crazy if you regularly update (and automatically ping) your blog.
        Originally Posted by Dave Rodman View Post

        Assuming you're doing everything you should be doing (Link Building), then XsitePro sites rank fine. Back when Xsitepro v1 came out, I loved it and build a few sites that still bring in really good money.

        With most content management tools these days, whatever code they spit out is going to be fine for SEO. Xsitepro does put the content first, then the navbar and that's helpful due to Google's First link priority on anchor text.

        Wordpress is great, but I don't share the love that many others do. At the same time, Xsitepro is ok but I think I've moved past it. I don't really like the funky way that the templates work. It's really hard to change the code, withouth Xsitepro changing something back when it publishes.
        What code would you want to change?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Rodman
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    I can't remember exactly since I haven't really used it in a couple years. But I remember extreme frustration when I would try and publish something and the code ended up getting changed during the process. There is a relatively long thread there that talks about the issue. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem for you though.

    XSitePro Website Design Software Message Board • View topic - LEAVE MY CODE ALONE!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      XSP works a lot with tables. And it does show the content part of your site first so that is the part that gets looked at the most.

      I have a number of XSP sites and have never had an issue with getting them to rank. XSP does have an RSS feed feature, but I am pretty sure it is a static feed (I am not 100 percent sure on that)

      You could, if you wanted to, install a WP blog in a subfolder and use that for promotion as well as your original site.

      I guess its possible that you could not do this, but that would depend on your hosting.
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