SEO and Carrot website platform

[Tommy Harper]

What is your experience and opinion of the carrot platform? Thinking of going this route to build out a buying and selling websites but am looking for a few people who either know someone who has had experience with it or they themselves have used it for at least a year and are willing to share details with us. Obviously someone who used it and followed instructions on how to set it up properly and invested in doing all the tasks/procedures to set it up accordingly over time. I've read some online reviews but there just didnt seem like there were that many available. 

[Owen Dashner]

My 2 cents...  I've had a Carrot site since 2018. "SEO optimized" does not mean it will do anything for you unless you put content out there either on your site, or that backlinks back to your site. It has to be content that people are actually interested in and clicking on/interacting with.  Just having a site really doesn't do anything for you without quality, relevant content that people are actually searching for. Carrot has a ton of pre-made blog posts that are supposed to help with content, but there are so many customers that use the exact same blog posts that it nullifies the effectiveness. Original content that people will actually consume is the way.

PPC is the fast, expensive way to rank highly, SEO is the long game: labor intensive, but worth it over time once you get traction and start ranking high organically.