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WordPress For The Win
Posted by on January 30, 2021 at 10:41 pmHey Everyone,
I’ve been posting in here more recently about my SEO journey, and one thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of people use site builders like Wix or Weebly. I started by using Weebly because of how easy it was, but I quickly noticed that the cost would add up as the professional plan costs $150 per site each year, and it was the only one that offered the full range of all the features. Looking for an alternative I found WordPress and that mixed with my hosting platform has been amazing. WordPress can be difficult at first but it allows for a lot more customization and can even help with your SEO. I also save money on hosting as I found a new platform where I spend roughly $300 a year for as many sites as I want. All around it’s been a great move long term for me, and I just thought I would drop this in here in case anyone was in a similar position to me. If you have any questions feel free to just comment below
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7 Replies
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My only question is how did you stumble upon Wix BEFORE learning about WordPress? Like half the internet is on WordPress for a reason.
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What host are you with? How is the speed?
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I’ve played around with most of the major platforms: Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Weebly, Shopify. Weebly, by a long shot, has the worst SEO features. Nearly useless.
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business or blog. what plan and which website you take plan from. pro and cons
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Wix is making great strides in what it has available for SEOs and I think is now a 100% viable option for small businesses who want to do SEO but also enjoy the ease of use Wix offers. They have a dedicated staff member whose only job is to be a liaison to the SEO community and he is awesome.
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WordPress management is a bit tricky but yes worth using as per the SEO freedom offered.
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How are you talking about SEO and small prices at the same time? Since when did SEO apply to little hobby sites? If you really think SEO is just the on page part generated by something like a WP plugin, you’re so far off.
By the way, for the love of everything that’s holly, stop trying to learn SEO if you don’t have anything to invest or even real competition. You’ll just waste your time. This is not a hobby. You don’t really learn anything until you have something to lose.
SEO hasn’t been about just your website for a while now. Just because you have a website talking about aquariums and you have traffic from Google from aficionados, that is not SEO. That is search engine, without the optimization part.
And regarding WP and the other pre-made tools and websites, they’re not good at SEO, Google is just good at parsing them, because it’s full of them. Most of the time what they call SEO is on page SEO which for the most part means actually structuring the code so that the engines understands what the page is about. Thinking that that’s SEO is like thinking that if you copy paste the source code of an NY Times article on your site, Google should divide the traffic equally between the sources.
SEO is about link building and authority. You can’t do that with just your site. And you can’t build anything note worthy on a $300 a year budget. Even if you discover the most fresh and empty micro niche, in a few months it will be saturated because other people will see that it works for you, and then you’d have to start spending money to stay afloat.
And enough with the naivety and thinking that everyone’s doing himself and with in page SEO we can all survive equally good. SEO a lot of times means taking down other competitors by employing bad SEO on them, by reporting them to Google for idiotic reasons, by sending them what Google considers spam traffic, etc.
I’m not saying that you should do this, I’m saying that it happens and you will be hit with this. Try to stay out of that with switching from Weebly (what a puerile name BTW, they might as well call it Sandbox and style the logo with cartoonish letters) to WP.
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