So, what about premade websites?  I’m still undecided about them.  The upside is, someone is producing a website for you.  The down side is, you still have to do a lot of work.  My feeling is, if I’m going to do a lot of work, I may as well build my own website.  That way it can look exactly as I want it to, and, I won’t have to pay any monthly fee.

I did belong to Rip2It (formally AdsenseRealEstate)  for a brief period of time.  Rip2It had a monthly fee and produced two websites a month for you, plus you had the option of using some other generic websites they made for the sole purpose of using adsense.  Of the two websites produced each month, you could chose your own topic and they would make a blog based website and stuff it with seven articles to get you started.

To me, the sites were a little goofy.  The table of contents were all keywords that had to be linked to articles.  You could try to link them to the original seven, but you really needed to write additional aritcles in a hurry, otherwise the navigation looked stupid.

From page to page, the table of contents changed to different keywords.  More articles needed.  Plus, some of the keywords I never would have used if I built my own site.  They just didn’t blend well with the site.

I’m not convinced the pages were SEO optimized either.

What really bugged me is after the first site or two, the article quality dropped off.  One site looked like they used an article spinner because all the articles seemed to say the same thing.  Maybe it was just me, but at that point I thought I could do better building my own sites.

The upside to the project included decent videos to show what’s what and they seemingly tried to upgrade the product from time to time.

The downside was when the time came for me to cancel, I was told I had to give 30 days notice.  That meant I ended up paying for another month.  Weak.

Secondly, if you don’t do a lot of work on it, the site is basically a junk site.  The search engines don’t like junk anymore.

You may as well just build your own sites or blogs.

My take on the whole thing.  Neither good, nor bad.  You decide.  It wasn’t for me.

If you’re really into premade sites, there are a lot of cheaper places to get them.

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