Is my site a Template or Custom. I paid for a custom website design and I have had a few people tell me this site is just a templete site. Any help would be great. Thx, Sam
What did the company say that you paid? They may have their own templates that they use for sites. It looks like a template with your images and info added, the overall affect is good though.
They say its a completely custom 100% original website. The reason I am asking this is because 2 very distinguished posters in this forum as well as V7N and a couple other webmaster boards have said that they think it is a templated site. I just want to know if i got ripped off or not.
Cedarcity ... template? You need to be a little more clear. Are you refering to the design? Navigation pages? I think that we can say that almost every page is a derrivative of another page. Designers tend to use what has worked on other designs, so you could argue its templated. The site on your sig is not that bad. What did you pay for it? What did you get with it? Custom graphics? Is it optimized?
I would rather not say what I paid for it. As for the optimization I would say it is semi optimized. I provided all the pictures for the site including along the top of the page. I also provided all the content. To me it looks alot like every other page out there but maybe that is because the design works. Side Navigation with a nice picture along the top. I am pretty sure I overpaid but I was suppose to be getting Optimization with it. Would someone look at the optimization for the site and tell me what you think. It is optimized for Cedar City Real Estate and Cedar City Homes for Sale.
Looks like it is adequately optimized from my quick look. The truth will come once you make the search engines and you can see if you rank for your keywords. The next check point will be whether or not you are converting your traffic to actual leads and the third check point will come once you are actually able to track your ROI.
Well thats kinda my problem. Everytime Yahoo updates i jump to #7 then about a week later i fall out again. The site is reletively new but I have put some major time and effort into it. I got a yahoo listing, dmoz listing, Many paid and free directory listings. I am recip linking with quality sites. My blogs are active and pointing to my site. I have written a couple articles and I have over 1000 links in MSN. Google pulled me out of the sandbox but I have yet to achieve anything even close to ranking in there results. Yahoo gives me a week ranking then dumps me and MSN I am #1 for my keyword. I am hoping I am just being penalized because my site is new but I am starting to fear there are bigger underlying problems.
Cedar, just keep building your links. IF you are happy with the onpage optimization .. put your energies on off-page optimization and everything should fall into place. Make it a priority to do 1 or 2 articles per week and acquire say 5 links from theme sites. Maybe do a little writeup on each of your communities, some writeups on certain facilities in each commnity, some writeups on touristy things in each community ie: places to eat, visit, health clubs etc. Perhaps some summaries on properties that sold and some of the features etc.
Someone has a site just like yours. Someone with a template like yours tells you. Or you spend some hellacious time on the net hunting for templates to see if it is like yours. To me, looks like xsitepro or softwaremaker pro was used.
Honestly, it might not be a template, but it looks like a template. You would expect custom jobs to be more, well, custom and original looking. It just doesn't look all that original. In fact, it looks horribly plain. I hope you didn't pay too much for it... But as someone else said, in the end you will decide if the site succeeds or not, not its design.