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...except on price and on the broad software ecosphere Auttomatic/WP has (which for the self-hosted option pretty much crushes everyone else unless you are doing a full corporate CMS, where Drupal and Joomla might come into play).

It's a nice proprietary option (maybe even and exceptional one) but the article byline is still very linkbait.

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I apologize in advance but I get pretty annoyed at the linkbait accusation. It's a strong, somewhat provocative headline yes, but how is it linkbait? Yes, Squarespace is not currently a competitive alternative to the self-hosting option of Wordpress (which I use everyday), but as you admit it's still an exceptional proprietary option for smaller scale websites. These and a million other nuances don't fit in headlines.

"Provacative" = a pretty good euphemism for "linkbait". "Aggressive SEO" is another.

I am unapologetically from a view where that kind of PT Barnum grade nonsense didn't square well with real journalism. I still cringe at it.

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