Creating a website with Carrot or NO Carrot

[Rauph Souleimanov]

Hello Everyone!

I currently have a website that I created with Carrot. 

It did ok the first couple of months but since then there have been no leads at all. 

I realize that my SEO optimization and stuff isn't great, so I really need to see what should be my next steps. 

I can optimize my Carrot website and pay someone to do it for like 500-700 of Upwork. But then I am still stuck with the monthly payment of $180 a month. 

Or I could suck it up and create a brand new website on WordPress for $1000 and then not have to pay more than $10 a month for the web hosting. 

The problem is that I am curious if having a carrot website really helps me?

If there is no difference between Carrot and WordPress when it comes to SEO and ranking on GOOGLE then it might make sense to go with WordPress for a long-term play. 

Has anyone thought about this before, and came to a decision?

Thank you!

[Brayden Winder]

Hey Rauph - Brady with Carrot!

1) We're happy to have you :) It sounds like reaching out to the team to explore options for getting help customizing your site either with our team or one of our parntersin the marketplace might be a good next step.

2) "if having a carrot website really helps me?" vs a Wordpress site...

Mohammad hit the nail on the head.

We get a lot of people moving from a custom Wordpress site to Carrot for two reasons:

1. The hidden costs, time management, and risks of Wordpress are real and often overlooked. I've built on worpress personally. You have separate plugins for form builders, SEO plugins, security plugins, analytics plugins, and so on. The cost adds up, you're on the hook for making sure plugins stay up to date since outdated plugins cause vulnerabilities which is when website hacks happen. You also want to get quality hosting and a quality content management system, plugins for compressing images, etc to keep the site loading fast, mobile-friendly & SEO-friendly.

2. Conversion. It's not just about ranking & SEO. When a seller goes to your website from any sort of marketing you're doing, you want them to convert into a lead. The website needs to be structured properly—the right pages in the right spots, robust & helpful written content, forms that are low-resistance and in the right locations with the right verbiage & fields, again it needs to be mobile-friendly and easy to navigate. Sure you can take the time & money to build out a full Wordpress site from scratch and spend time & money maintaining it, fixing things on your own when they break, but we created Carrot to save you the time & headache so you can focus on generating leads & closing deals. At the end of the day a website that misses the mark and isn't built with conversion in mind to capture leads will cost you more. What's 1 lost deal worth?

I get it, I'm biased because I work for Carrot. But I've built on Wordpress, Wix, and Carrot.

I know my reply is late, but hit us up through chat or hop on a call with our team - we'd love to help get you steered in the right direction!