SEO questions. Can a simply built website like wix, square space, go daddy be optimized to the front page of google? Trying to figure out a decent marketing strategy for a landscaping company.

[mehoymenoyme]

I’ve seen it done before

[thelastbowlcut]

Depends on the local competition. Half the service companies around here don’t even have websites/ they are just landing pages. The fronpage isn’t that hard it’s the top 1-2 results where you will see some sort of competition in local seo as long as you are not in a highly competitive industry or area.

[BroScrubYourBalls]

Absolutely. Google sees what visitors see.

Aside from any technical stuff that some builders might not have for intricate competition, good content and built out sites can do well.

[gradual-growth]

Yes. Just go for it. Focus on content, links and a technically sound site. The CMS doesn’t really matter. Yeah WordPress is great thanks to all the plugins you can use. And Shopify is popular for e-commerce. But you can definitely rank sites on Wix and SquareSpace.

[theaaronromano]

yes.

[igotnocandyforyou]

I have or run websites on 5 different platforms. My favorite it wordpress because the yoast plugin remembers lots of things I forget. For example, I have a basic html,css,js site I will myself; it was having a ranking problem and after checking Google search console I realized I forgot to define the canonical… Google was literally penalizing me because I didn’t self reference. F’google, but anyway.

Html css has made is my second favorite because I have 100% control – the huge downside of this is the amount of css for all the screensizes and browsers. Elementor on WordPress handles all that but it’s a bit clunky.

I found wix and squarespace to be garbage but I have one client on each.

[Webetradinstonks]

Yes, but just get WordPress. When you decide to add analytics & features to the website it’ll save you a lot of hassle with plug-ins.

[SEO_IS_THE_WAY]

Yes but you have to put the time and effort in. Time + effort = rankings

[Stevesilvasy]

You can, but I would recommend optimizing your google my business listing as much as possible. If you can get in the 3 pack, that’ll really help.