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Building a Website – XsitePro vs WordPress

Building a website continues to get easier for people without programming expertise. There are lots of software programs to help you build a website, some can be complicated and someare quite easy.

The easier avenues for affiliate marketers or small businesses are XsitePro and WordPress.

XsitePro creates HTML “Static” websites that are clean/simple but optimized for search engines. Some affiliate marketers like using Xsite Pro for sales landing pages.

If you want traffic to your site, then don’t bother with fancy websites with moving images and blinking Flashy things requiring the latest media plugins to even get the homepage to play. That is a quick way to lose traffic/potential customers.

The easiest and FREE METHOD for building internet marketing websites is with WordPress. WordPress is an opensource software platform that was originally for blogging websites but has evolved with thousands of software add-ons and functions that allow you to create almost anything on a website. Also search engines love wordpress sites so they are very good for generating traffic.

It is a little intimidating first starting out with wordpress because there are so many add-ons/configurations, but there are forums you can search for answers or there is a product that provides informative step-by-step videos for using wordpress. Like anything you get better the more you do it (or the more sites your build).

WordPress is excellent for affiliate marketers because there are tons of add-on software products (in WordPress they are called “Plug-ins”) that are geared for adding essential functionality for any affiliate marketing website. The layouts/design templates for wordpress are called themes and can easily be manipulated to meet your needs. (this site was created on wordpress). You can put up great wordpress sites all for free.

Many of the good software plug-ins for WordPress are geared to automating many of the processes required for building a sustainable internet website that will continue to bring in new traffic.

I own XsitePro and bought it when I first started in Internet marketing but haven’t touched it since using wordpress.

One idea i got from a fellow affiliate marketer though for Xsite pro is using it to build small niche websites for local business. It is not too hard making a clean, niche keyword focused website for a local business and charge a couple grand(way cheaper than what fancy web designers charge) and the site will run on autopilot since it is static(content isn’t changing). You just need to know what you are doing 1st though on keyword research.

XsitePro is good if you want to create small, niche websites with very targeted keywords but wordpress is much more scalable and customizable for affiliate marketers. Some web designers just use XsitePro instead of fancier/complicated programs like Dreamweaver.

I realize I only touched on the basics but Xsite Pro and WordPress are both excellent ways to build a website. Both take a little figuring out but for internet marketing I would just go with WordPress as the add-ons/capability is endless.

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