Just a quick post. I wrote a longer post over on the Kertesz WordPress Web/Blogsite for Professionals site that explains in detail what a unique “property” your website’s main page is. Why a blog is not a very good main page for a full business web/blogsite. And a Flash splash page is worse. Click here to give it a read.
One of the pioneers in using a WordPress web/blog site as their main web presence is Christine Tremoulet of Houston. Recently I came across a Flickr discussion board comment where she shared a snap shot of the amazing results from making the change. To get it done she even needed to extensively modify an old theme herself.
“… I will say that once I moved the Flash site to be secondary on my site, and moved my blog to the front, my traffic went through the roof. Like 800 hits in December 2007, vs. 5000 hits in June 2008. I can not say enough positive things about having the blog at the front of my site – and my clients *love* it!”
That is over a 600% increase in her photography site traffic in just six months. That is success!
And is why I developed a low-cost WordPress web/blogsite template template for wedding photographers. Let me show you how easy it can now be to have similar results for your web site … seamlessly merging your existing Flash template into a search marketing optimized web/blog site.
You may feel like a pioneer, but Christine Tremoulet has already shown you the amazing results. Regardless of how you proceed I feel need to stress that if you want to increase your business this is one of the best, lowest risk, things you can do.
Well the core project is pretty well completed. Thanks for everyone’s inputs.
I am working on finishing the support pages providing more in depth descriptions of the website’s theme, features and behind the scene configurations. Because of its robust nature and the need for it to include some flash features with additional XML and database data , the theme will be delivered as complete setup WordPress website. So things like the custom wedding oriented contact form and image galleries will all work “straight out of the box”.
This means purchasers will not need to spend valuable hours learning the code programming basics of WordPress. Even with that savings to purchasers, pricing will be extremely competitive compared to existing custom professional photography WordPress themes
And, I have decided to name it Kertesz, after Andre Kertesz.
ps – I just discovered that meaning of the name Kertesz is gardener. May it help all of our businesses grow!
