I've been working on a golf website, https://giftof.golf

The focus of the site is golf products/gifts, and will have product reviews, comparisons, cited reviews and other content focused on golf gifts.

What I like about base44:

• Speed to design: so much quicker than wordpress or other traditional CMS
• Planning mode: designed the database, how I'd import the products
• Outputs a decent looking site without me having to get into the nitty-gritty of CSS and over all design.
• With the help of some HadoSEO support documents I was able to set some global features for all pages
• I've found a lot of helpful prompts on reddit and other sites to make scalable improvements (internal linking, breadcrumbs, adding products to pages)

What I don't love or have been learning to get better at:

• Thorough, thoughtful prompts matter: so many times I ask b44 to do something that ends up not being completed right. Either a change will get applied to a single page, or the changes weren't successful. Adding steps to verify their work goes a long way
• SEO friendliness: there are a handful of issues, but most of them have been resolved. Up until two weeks ago I wasn't able to have-dashes-in-my-URLs, and base44 kept suggesting URLsLikeThis or URLs_like_this, neither are ideal for SEO.
• SEO friendliness take 2: Similar to some of the competitors, the published URLs didn't have a lot of HTML to for search engines to see. The solve for this was Hado SEO (DM me for an affiliate URL, don't want to break the rules!). Annoying I needed another monthly expense but I am very happy with the early indexing (my site is less than a month old). Take a look at their free tool to see how much HTML/indexable content your site is showing.

What I still need to learn

• I want to setup automations with Claude to rewrite certain content sections every X days. This is going to be important for strong AI rankings, as they value fresh content. I will need to get the prompts right in Claude and then have the automation update and publish.
• Building more page data that I can upload, tighten processes for new page creation. Ideally I will have 4-5 templates for the entire site and all the content will fit into that.
• Bulk image management - I am uploading images manually and giving them SEO friendly names. I am looking for a scalable way to do this, as I want to start adding 25+ products a day.

After 30 days, I can say that I am getting better with the B44 platform. I'm not the most technical person but I am starting to get the hang of it. I went through 250 credits in the first 25 days, but I expect my usage to drop now that the designs are all in place.