website design - Archive - kansascityseogroup http://www.kansascityseogroup.com Kansas City SEO Group | Search Engine Optimization Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:44:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.9 http://www.kansascityseogroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-kansas-city-seo-152-32x32.jpg website design - Archive - kansascityseogroup http://www.kansascityseogroup.com 32 32 5 Reasons Why you shouldn’t use a free website builder http://www.kansascityseogroup.com/5-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-free-website-builder/ http://www.kansascityseogroup.com/5-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-free-website-builder/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:44:04 +0000 http://www.kansascityseogroup.com/?p=16596 We had a client ask us “ With all of the free website builders out there, why can’t we just use one of those?”   The notion of using Wix, Weebly or Squarespace may initially seem like a good idea from a financial perspective because who doesn’t like free or almost free….right ?  At first glance it seems like a pretty good idea.  The interface is pretty intuitive, it has drag and drop functionality and you can build and publish a website in short order.  Let’s take a deeper dive and explore why you shouldn’t be using a free platform for your website.   1) SEO Limitations. Given what we do as a company, you kind of figured this would be our first talking point no?    The free builders typically have a section to “activate SEO”  or “enable SEO”  in their interface.   SEO is a complex space and involves much more than just typing a few keywords and off you go.   In order to succeed and make any traction in SEO you need to have the ability to custom craft keywords and target your niche on each of the individual pages of the site.  The one size fits all approach of the […]

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