Your new post is loading...
.
Web Designers Beware
If you can make Wordpress sing like a fine violin we applaud you. We're leaving Wordpress because it's promise of publishing well-designed content to the web feels false, spoiled and crushed.
Crushed under the weight of battling plugins, poorly supported themes and the false belief that beautiful design beats SEO basics (like not putting a rat;s nest of code into your HEAD). Ugly and Google friendly gets more traffic than beautiful and Google nasty.
We've proven the point. Our ugly Blogger site (Scenttrail Marketing started in 2008) had 100,000 visitors. Curagmai.com looks great, but Wordpress is crushing us for 5 reasons:
* Spam, Attacks and Potential for HARM
* Unrealized Promise
* Crap Overload
* BAD SEO and poor site performance (load times)
* No Easy Multi-Platform Content Curation
Let's Compare to @Scoop.it where we've spent LESS TIME to get more results including:
45,000+ followers
276,000 Views
204,000 visitors
95,000 reactions
WINNER = Scoop.it (as you can read on our Curagmai post). And the horse race isn't even CLOSE!!!
When we started using WP six years ago the platform was full of promise. But there is a problem. Ugly and Google friendly gets more traffic than beautiful and Google nasty. That sentence is worth repeating. If you are a designer who can make WP sing don't forget the ultimate goal - creation of RETURN for your customers.
Beauty and great design is ONE ASPECT of creating online ROI. Make sure your WP designs overcome the 5 reasons we are leaving, out, history, see ya :). Marty
Ugly and Google friendly gets more traffic than beautiful and Google nasty.
