Does anyone use Ultimento for Magento?

[kwoolf]

We're working on a re-design and want to start with SEO rather than leave it until the end. Of course, saving time and money on a custom template would be great. Ultimento found at www.ultimento.com boasts great SEO features. Has anybody used it? Please comment. Thanks in advance!

Kevin

[TylerZey]

I've never personally used that service.  But I've used similar services.  Particularly http://www.shopify.com/ and wordpress has numerous themes.  I've also used http://www.weebly.com/.  But they wouldn't be as flexible as ultimento.com looks...

[kwoolf]

Thanks Tyler. We're committed to Magento. I was inquiring about the SEO effectiveness of the Ultimento template in particular. It's up there at around $600, but if it saves us a complete redesign of an entire Magento theme, then it'll be well worth it. I'd just hate to get involved with this only to find that we still have to work throughout the code changing heading tags, removing extra span tags, inserting XML modifications to add metadata, and all that jazz. If you don't tool with Magento, you probably won't get what I'm jabbin about, but that's ok. Magento is a beast, we're just looking to maximize our SEO dollars in the least amount of time.

Kevin

[SEOPA]

Hi Kevin,

Interesting timing. We JUST made the decision to switch from BigCommerce to Magento, and last Wednesday I discovered Ultimento. On first glance a lot of the customer reviews looked fake, but there are hundreds so I'm hoping that's not the case.

Long story short, from my research it looks like a lot of the features can be accomplished individually with different Magento extensions and such. That said, it looks like it can save you time. We have a lot of moving parts (which I'm guessing you do to) so went ahead with it and opted for the middle package (I think it was $300 or so) if it saves at least some time it will be well worth it for us. Plus, Magento can be finicky so I'm hoping it makes things a little less painless. This is our first Magento project so we are looking to reduce any pain points. (I've done a lot of research on speed enhancements and hosting if you want to discuss).

Ultimento also appeared to have some helpful features (not SEO related) that we will take advantage of. Again, doable with different extensions, but I like how it's all packaged up.

My developer is testing out Ultimento as I type this. My main question is if there are any customization limitations with it. We're doing some fairly custom stuff, so hopefully not.

I can circle back later this week with some more input on it after we test it out a bit. On first glance it's very clean though and the install was pretty quick.

Feel free to send me a message if you want to talk further about it (or other Magento items) offline.

Good luck!

[SEOPA]

See my comment below. Just saw this note: There may be some stuff you still need to tweak, but it should save a lot of time. I'll post again after we dig in a bit. Again, on first glance it looks pretty clean and well worth it.

[kwoolf]

Hi SEOPA,

Any update on Ultimento? Has it worked out for you through a Magento upgrade? And the Ultimento 3.1 upgrade? Has it been worth the investment so far?

Kevin