Easy to Use should not mean Easy to Lose
When you find a new webpage editor or hosting company or other web tool that makes things “easy to use”, be sure they are not making it “easy for you to lose” at the web game.
It is common for web tools to make things easier to do online and this is not a bad thing all by itself. AutoMapIt’s sitemap generator is an example of a tool that makes sitemaps easy to setup on your website without getting in the way of your true goals… more exposure for your website, more traffic, and ultimately more revenue for your business.
Many webhosts make it easy for you to setup shopping carts, blogs, and other types of websites, but some of these come with a hidden cost. Some of these webhosts will not allow you to upload to your web root. They require you to make any uploads to a special folder. This practice conflicts with the Sitemap Protocol which states that your XML sitemap needs to be located in your web root (if it contains URLs from your web root, like almost all websites do).
There is a workaround for this problem, _IF_ you can edit your robots.txt file. You can enter some special code that points to a sitemap hosted elsewhere. AutoMapIt gives you the exact code to use when you use our Pro Sitemap System. However, if your webhost does not allow you to edit your robots.txt file, they are once again working against your efforts to gain top-ranked listings on Google.
This “easy to use/easy to lose” scenario exists with tools besides your webhost. Even with a good webhost, your website creation software (blogs, forums, CMS, shopping cart, webpage editors, plugins) may make basic webpage creation easier, but it may also be restricting you from adding certain types of code that help your pages perform better.
You may have to face the tough decision to leave an easy-to-use tool once you realize that it’s working against you more than it’s working with you and it will probably not be an easy move away from such tools.
What you should be looking for is ease of use combined with flexibility. If a tool can generally make things easier for you, but still allow you to override it’s basic set of rules, then you have a tool which makes life easier without causing you to lose out on the big picture.
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