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Wix vs wordpress?? SEO
I currently have a wix site and I’m showing up on the first search page in google (took about 8 months or so). But I still feel it could be better in terms of SEO. Does a WordPress website get better SEO than wix? If I move to WordPress will google have to reindex my site, making it take another several months to reindex? If I hire someone to do WordPress, will I be dependent on them In the future for doing any changes to the site (I like having that control with wix).
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Never, under any circumstance use Wix. Buy a domain and use WordPress if that’s the only option to you.
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Wix is probably more user-friendly for beginners, but it is absolutely worth the time and investment to learn WordPress. You won’t get “better SEO” just by moving to WordPress alone, but you have SO much more flexibility and customization available to you in WordPress than you do with Wix.
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This is not a real question. Wix is dogshit for SEO compared with WordPress.
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The question of how much control you have over the site depends ENTIRELY on who you work with on the WordPress site. Some developers set you up and let you fly free, I’ve heard of others that didn’t release the site when the client left because they said the vendor actually owned all of the content. Read your agreements and find somebody that includes a little training to edit and add content. If you can do that on your own, you’ll be in good shape.
It would be worth it to work with a real SEO with developer chops to do the transition right. Use 302s and 301s correctly and make sure Google Search Console is watching and aware of your move (sitemaps, etc.). You can keep the site structure and Google won’t have to completely re-index your site. If this sounds way too complex, show it to your WordPress developer and let them explain it to you. If they can’t, keep shopping.
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Wix is a dumpster fire. Learn WordPress, its worth the time investment
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This should be a sticky post in this sub-reddit. As Wix, Squarespace, and the other site-builder platforms are so bad with SEO they should not even be brought into the discussion of SEO. That said even WordPress runs into these issues when you use theme builders.
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Wordpress is the best… Lost of features for SEO. U can add seo related plugin also.
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WordPress + The SEO Framework plugin. And that’s pretty much it. You’re set.
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Your SEO is (almost) completely platform independent, apart from performance considerations.
Up front – I am NOT a fan of wix, at all. I think it’s a terrible platform that does its users a disservice. That being said, they actually *have* fixed almost all of their SEO problems (plenty of articles on this).
Ahrefs, one of the biggest SEO tools, has this to say about Wix and SEO:
>**Final thoughts**
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>If you care about SEO, should you use Wix, WordPress, or something else?
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>The truth is, there’s no definitive answer to that question.
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>It all comes down to what you value.
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>If your SEO requirements are quite basic and minimal, and you care about an easy-to-use CMS, then Wix is probably fine. After all, our data shows that Wix sites don’t have a hard time ranking on Google.
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>Wix is great for launching and maintaining a basic website, even if you don’t have a technical bone in your body. I know a few people who use Wix for this very reason.
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>But if you plan on using SEO as a long-term strategy, or you’re hiring an agency to do SEO for you, it may be advantageous to look into other platforms (not necessarily WordPress) for scalability and customization.So, inherently, neither platform is going to give you a leg up ***just because of the platform***. That being said, if I was approaching your problem I would sit down with you, discuss your business goals and what you’re looking to accomplish, and then do two things (that are not tied together): Give you an SEO audit, and give you a preview of a range of CMSes to see which one works best for you and your workflow for managing your content; there are many more options out there than WordPress, and I always make it a point to let people know that so they can make an educated decision of what works for them, will give them control over their content, and helps them meet their business goals. The only thing I would recommend is having a professional help you establish, build, and monitor your SEO, and potentially other digital marketing efforts.
Sorry for the long reply, but I hope that helps and gives you a better understanding of things. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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You have to reminded your site … google doesn’t do that automatically—
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Wordpress is better than wix and its easy to learn my best suggestion is you learn wordpress and move your website there without any tens bcoz google do reindex but if you have quality content then uour website will b come up within a month or may be less than a month.
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Theoretically you have more control with WordPress, which might allow you to perform better on-page technical SEO.
Practically speaking however, this probably won’t make much of a difference except for expert-level implementations.
In my opinion however, you should use WordPress. Wix does not allow you to access the backend files and thus if you ever have to leave their platform, you have to rebuild your site from scratch. You’ll also pay more for Wix than for hosting with WordPress.
Source: My aunt had a Wix site that cost $300 a year to run. I helped her rebuild the site almost identically in Worpdress on a host that costs $30 a year.
>If I hire someone to do WordPress, will I be dependent on them In the future for doing any changes to the site (I like having that control with wix).
Generally no, unless you need custom development, which most beginners won’t.
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Wordpress time 1000x Wix is the instagram of CMS, all pretty pictures and no substance.
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WordPress doesn’t has better seo than six, you can do better seo than you can do on wix. You have more capabilities to improve your seo in WordPress. But you need to do it by hand.
WordPress is better,but only if you do the job it needs.
Also your results depends of what are you ranking for.
You need to recreate the links exactly if you can, or do 301 redirect for every direction you can’t recreate in WordPress. And crawl the site, update the sitemap.xml on Google search and you shouldn’t wait months to have your old ranking.
Always if you do a major modification in your site, it will impact your SEO anyways. It could be for the best or for the worst.
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