CaptainHavok

Hello warriors, my first thread here so if i posted in the wrong topic, i apologize.

anyway, i've bought a few products on affiliate marketing and i guess i feel its time to put what i have learnt to use.

However i am unsure of which type of site will give me the most leverage.
i've heard good things about both Xsite pro and WP and i guess what i want answered is pros and cons of the two.
(im thinking of building niche-review type sites)

also will my choise affect my conversion rates or SEO success (important as i wont do ppc to start with)

Kezz

I haven't personally used Xsite pro, but I can rave to you until the cows come home about Wordpress. In my experience there is nothing you can't do with Wordpress, and when you're talking about something that's completely free, that's pretty compelling.

Having not used Xsite pro I guess I'm not that qualified to give a complete picture, but there are a couple of factors that spring to mind. One, is there are several people that make a complete living just from running Wordpress sites alone, ie professional bloggers. I haven't personally seen the same phenomena on any other platform.

The other factor, is that I sell a lot of websites in various marketplaces. I consistently see Wordpress sites that are earning solid revenue being sold for good amounts of money. I haven't seen one that says it has been built with Xsite Pro. That may or may not mean anything, but its an observation nonetheless.

Regarding SEO, I've built a lot of Wordpress sites, and I've found that no matter what content I have, they get indexed by Google in a matter of days. I've found it quite easy to build traffic to Wordpress sites compared to other platforms I've tried.

Lastly, Wordpress is a good long term prospect, because given its open source nature, you can always hire programmers down the track to adapt it to your needs. You can't do this with a closed source platform. You also get access to a vast pool of plugin developers and theme developers that give their work away for free, or charge only very reasonable amounts.

I swear by Wordpress for everything I do.

kosmo101

I am a web designer for many years and would always come up with my own templates and designs. Got it down to ones that worked well in search engines.

Now i use wordpress. In 10 minutes i have it all ready to go. It really makes life easier especially when i do the offline marketing thing.

Kevin

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Abledragon

I'm a WordPress freak and I totally endorse the comments the others have made above.

However...

XSitePro is also very good. I have a friend who makes a full time living off XSitePro sites.

I'm not by any means as familiar with XSP as my friend, but I understand that what it does is to provide you a template for capturing the META tags - so that every page on your site is correctly tagged (as long as you complete the template!).

If you then make sure that your navigation is complete and your H tags are used properly you will have a site that both people and the Search Engines can find easily and find their way around easily.

The result is that sites built in WordPress and sites built with XSP both have the same characteristics: they are both well structured and easy to navigate.

Which makes them both very SEO effective.

BTW - SiteBuildIt is another product that does the same thing as XSP. SBI sites are very SEO effective as well.

Cheers,

Martin.

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CaptainHavok

wow, thanks for all the replies, their really helpfull

after a while of thinking i figure a blog will be in need of alot more updates as where a static webpage is more, well.. static

so i was thinking if i go along the tips of joshuaelliot i could then create multiple static sites at first so i have some passive income streams.
later i can then ad blogs to subdomains on those websites when/if i feel i need to, if i find a particular topic that is profitable and i like writing about, right?

if that is a good way to go, then should i use xsite pro to create the static webpages, or can all that be done in wordpress aswell?

again thanks for all your replies

CaffeinatedWorld

Always remember that Wordpress is not just a blogging platform - websites can be easily designed with Wordpress pages module - it's very good.

Also with Wordpress you can get a lot of extra functions via Plugins so if you need... i don't know - a popup screen - it's easy

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CaptainHavok

Im sold seems like wordpress is abit more scalable than xsite pro.

I dont really mind if its a slightly higher learning curve, although i would love if someone could recommend any products where i can learn how to use wordpress, otherwise it feels like i might just be randomly doing stuff.