Wix.com Website Builder Html5 and SEO, what is your opinion
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I'm planing to built a multilanguage website using a website builder. After reading websitetooltester.com reviews I came to the conclusion, wix.com should be the website builder I need.
My first reason are the templates and there multilanguage options.
But there is one thing, ready the review they mention:
''This is a bit technical; you can find the short version below.
Wix is using the “single page pattern” meaning that the complete website code is essentially on one page. This works well for website visitors but not necessarily for Google as contents will be shown dynamically using Javascript and DOM manipulation.
To solve this, Google supports something called ‘escaped fragments’ (or ugly URLs). With regards to Wix, it means that URLs will end like this: “#!wixseo|cqh1”. Google replaces the “#!” by “?escaped_fragment=” and receives only a minimal text-only page without Javascript. And this works well for Google. Try it here:
http://www.html5-websitebuilder.com/?escaped_fragment=cqh1The official page ID is “cqh1” and not “wixseo”. But as the URL contains both IDs, the visitor can even see a description that’s readable by humans (and that’s important for SEO). You may have seen URLs containing “#!” already if you are a Twitter user.''
Should I worry about Google indexing all the pages?
Is this website builder SEO frendly?
Thank you for your help and time,
BigBlaze
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I would like to point out that you need to know the other side of story as well.
I claim and back it up that it is SEO friendly, a good 75% there. missing 25%.
See this thread and this thread and ESPECIALLY read the comments sections
wix has a public relations and communcations problem, and minor SEO/dev issues which are basically expected to be resolved at some point. they HAVE THE ESSENTIALS in place quite solidly for SEO.
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No, that's not SEO friendly. They say it is - if you look at the source code on one of their sites, you'll see this in the comments:
Using Hashbang (this thing in the URL: #! ) causes issues down the road - here's two decent arguments against using it:
- http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch
- http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs
So, the only way for me to answer your questions is to say that I cannot imagine a situation where I would choose to use this for one of my own sites or ever recommend that a client used it.
As a sidenote - the wix.com pages take forever to load - not a good sign when looking for a website platform.
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