Xsitepro, is this the only Honest Review on the Internet?
Unlike many of the Xsitepro reviews that you might find on the
Internet, this is a fully unbiased review that does not include
a single affiliate link. You see, it is my opinion that you can
not properly review a product if you are hoping to encourage
people to click through via your affiliate link in order to earn
you a commission. It's fairly obvious, that if you're looking
for affiliate commission, your review is going to be good, this
means that it is not a fair review.
First off, let me explain what Xsitepro actually is. It's a
product that is aimed at people without a technical background
who would like to have the freedom and flexibility to launch
multiple web sites. There are a number of reasons why people
would like to do this, most notably to create a web site that
can be used to launch or sell a product, earn affiliate revenue
or make money from contextual advertising, such as Yahoo
Publishing or Google Adsense.
The reason why Xsitepro is so powerful, is that someone without
a technical background is able to launch a fully fledged web
site within just a few hours. This means that you are only
limited by your ambition and time.
To give you an idea of how easy it is to create a new web site,
I have provided this walk through below. However, it is very
much worth pointing out that the tutorials and documentation
provided with this product are excellent. This is very important
as it ensures that you're able to realise your return on
investment much quicker if you can leverage the full
capabilities of the program.
Creating a website in Xsitepro.
Simply open your Xsitepro program and select "Add Project". As
you'd expect, this creates a new project, you can name this and
add notes. You can also include your project description and add
your keywords.
Highlight your new project and select "Add web site", you will
then be given a choice of 4 different web site layouts. These
include, a blank web page, graphical sales letter, sales letter
and affiliate templates. Upon selecting any of these choices,
you will be presented with multiple choice of Xsitepro templates.
For this example, I will select a blank web page, once selected
you will be asked to provide a name. Once you have decided upon
a name, you have the option to provide the following web page
details, title, description, keywords, author, copyright and
other notes. You can complete this immediately, or come back to
it at a later date.
Across the top of your console, you will see the following
tabs, website information, page layout, web pages, other and
publishing details. Our next step is to select web pages, this
is the page that we can add new pages, product pages, article
pages, external links or simply import multiple pages into the
system. It is possible to create 1,000 page web site by simple
importing your keyword list via the multiple page option,
Xsitepro will even capitalise the words if you choose to include
them on your navigation bar.
For each page that you create, you have the option of checking
a box should you wish that page to appear on the navigation bar,
page footer or site map. For the actual page content, you can
choose a traditional HTML view, or you may prefer the Design
view which is similar to a word processor. If you have content
in other programs, you can simply cut and paste into your page.
A very unique feature with Xsitepro is that it helps you to
create pages that are search engine friendly. Each page that you
create is measured for SEO effectiveness, this means that your
"On Page SEO" is always taken care of if you follow the
suggestions made by the program.
Once you have created your pages, you might want to include
your Adsense code or other affiliate links such as Amazon. In
Xsitepro, this is as easy as right clicking. Once you have added
your Adsense and affiliate link information to the program, you
simply right click and "Add Adsense Code" or "Add Snippet".
Now that your site has content and links, you might well be
ready to upload your site. Again, in Xsitepro this is very easy.
Before Xsitepro came along, I always had enormous difficulty
uploading web sites, this all changed very quickly.
To upload a site, you need to do the following, enter your
domain name, home directory, FTP Server, username and password,
once entered, you select "Tools" and "Publish" . That's it, your
site begins to upload and you'll be online shortly.
Obviously, this describes building a very simple web site and
uploading it to the Internet. The objective of explaining how to
create a web site in Xsitepro was to give you a sense of how
easy it is. The real benefit of this product is taking advantage
of all of the other features and functions. Don't worry, you do
not need to be a technical wizard to get the hand of these,
you'll pick them up quite quickly and before long you'll be
creating stunning web sites.
Once you start to gain a little bit of experience from using
Xsitepro, you may identify what I consider to be the only real
weakness of the product, that is the lack of templates that are
available out of the box. It is possible to create original
templates for yourself, however this requires a certain amount
of artistic flair and knowledge of a program such as Photoshop.
Unfortunately, these skills were not handed to everyone.
Fortunately, there are great companies out there that are
starting to provide great Xsitepro templates. These are usually
available via download and you can simply import these templates
into your own Xsitepro program, this allows you to build your
content around the new template.
One of the better companies offering these templates is
Xsiteprotemplates4U.com, they already have a wide selection of
templates available and are adding to their portfolio on a daily
basis, so there should be something there for most people, best
of all is that these fun and original designs will not break the
bank.
I hope that you found this review helpful. I plan to follow this
article up with some more detailed tips and tricks and how to
really start to get the most of this great product.
Oh, in case you have not already guessed, I think that Xsitepro
is a great product. Their sales page does not do it justice at
all. Whether you're technical or non technical and currently use
Dreamweaver or Frontpage to create your web sites, I fully
recommend that you look into Xsitepro. There's a one year
guarantee, so really there is nothing to lose!
Good luck.