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At my agency Mayham & Fisher we could make a better website with a crayon and cocktail napkin we found in a dumpster than Wix's software. One of our first clients had her site on Wix, after realizing how trash of a CMS it was we went ahead and transferred her site onto WordPress. Without any content dev., link building, or other SEO tactics her site made huge jumps in the rankings just from the site transfer because it ran so much better than it had on Wix.
I've been in front and backend web development for over two decades. I've used every web host available, including Wix. I even became a Wix "Partner" developer a year and a half ago. Just one of my many certs and web dev hats. Things were fairly decent until May 2019 when Wix began actively destroying every positive aspect of their functionality. I login and elements have shifted, metatags are wiped, meta descriptions are gone. Titles are jibberish or unchangeable. The issue with Wix is that it is essentially a software program and when they run updates, it blows through every website, knocking elements out of place, wiping fields and links, etc. And there is no way to copy, save or export your work with Wix. You build it on Wix, it stays on Wix unless you take the time to rebuild ELSEWHERE. And I do mean, rebuild. Over the Summer, Wix released a, "new" blog which now does not follow RSS feed guidelines. You cannot import your RSS feeds into another blog. Get ready to type each character one by one. And how about domain transfers? They sit on them for the entire 7 days, no way to speed it up. And no way to edit nameservers to point to the new website before you start the transfer process.
Wix.Com's entire goal is to grab a customer and trap them. While raising their prices dramatically and constantly. In 2018, they still only charged $7. a month, now the minimum is $23. And every app cost more. Blogs, booking, calendar, chat, etc. Even FORMS!! I used to love you Wix. But now I can't hate you enough.
I've had to rescue many WIX customers from websites that wouldn't rank for any SEO whether it's technical SEO or local SEO, they just had problems.
WIX SEO Haters, even from France !
Une vraie galère à optimiser au niveau de la performance … Un nom de domaine bien travaillé depuis des années peut fonctionner et se placer sur les requêtes de niche, mais honnêtement, c'est beaucoup d'efforts pour peu. Réaliser un vite vitrine pour tester un Design ? OK. S'inspirer de leurs thème ? OK. Mais pour être réellement efficace, faut passer son chemin !
Wix has improved it's SEO features drastically in the past few months however, the sites are still very slow even after Wix Turbo was released.
I personally haven't used Wix, but have heard from friends that it's a bad platform. I would always recommend Wordpress over Wix.
Wix's SEO is questionable, particularly for the blog.
I would give zero stars if I could. Not sure what's worse, their SEO or their customer service.
I spent months building a website for over a year to learn that it wasn't showing up in search. To say I was furious is an understatement. This has directly affected the success of my business.
They're the absolute worst. They have no SEO at all. I used a coupon to try it for a year and later found out I had almost no traffic on my site. What a waste of money!
Wix uses a ton of java script making websites run incredibly slow. Everyone knows Google hates java script and slow websites, so it's no surprise that their SEO sucks.
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