WIX & SEO
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Good morning all,
recently i started to test a new niche build a website and did it with WIX.
From some reason OSE don't see any information from the website
Can anyone solve this mystery?
Thank you very much
SEOwise
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and what do you mean exactly by "mark up manually"? coding?
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I hated my experience with Wix. It was certainly very pretty and got us a site up in next to no time that did the trick in the short term - if that's what you need, fine.
As far as I'm aware, you can't mark up anything in Wix manually, which is quite a big deal. Having it readable by an engine and having it optimised are very different.
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you bet I never said that.
If you move into wix with an existing site - NO GO
if you start out of wix and do not need all those good full featured SEO controls for your sites - GO GO GO
you can always later on do 301s from old wix urls (hasbang situation considered, there are ways)
I am yet to hear or see a valid complaint for wix or similar sites that is proving they are "horrible" for SEO. the fact that for wordpress you still need to learn coding and will NEVER get the same visuals as easily and as fast (with coding, you can do anything, but then again why use wordpress when you can code)
they say they may introduce this stuff at some point in future and I take their word for it, but wont hold my breath, their future could mean months-years.
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there is a technical mismatch. we have tried many times, with sites that are old or new, flash or html5, OSE and wix at the moment do not mix. campaigns, yes they work almost 100% well.
But David would you care to elaborate why a service like wix is "horrible" for SEO while we have had success ranking sites on it very well?
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Thank you David
In my language we say something like that: "you erupt to an open door"
This is exactly what i am doing right now (self-hosted Wordpress)
Thanks again
SEOwise
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How recently?
OSE's index was last updated on May 15, if it was later than that, you won't see any data. Next update is due on June 12. But to be blunt, wix is horrible for SEO - get a self-hosted Wordpress install, with a few plugins you'll be on the right path.
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Thank you Omid for this answer.
In between the lines i can read that i better not build a main website using WIX if SEO is an important part of it.
I know you didnt say that, but have this feeling in the past few weeks
Again - thank you very much
SEOwise
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OSE will not be able to help you at all. no mystery.
SEOmoz folk and Wix folk have not mingled enough to get a solution for this. I would bet no other competing service to SEOmoz and OSE will see much good info/data either.
trust me, I have used wix for over 2 years now.
Campaigns however, do work essentially just fine, rank checker does work, and keyword rankings and traffic data do work, also link information in the competitor section of campaigns works just fine and all totals are shown, even details can be drilled down to in history mode, but for some reason OSE and wix do not mix well and i have never seen it able to read much details about any wix site, even really popular and established one. it only gives the DA, PA, and those top numbers. no details.
This is something that WIXSEOTEAM who are active on SEOmoz said they will "try" to look into and try to work out with SEOmoz... But you can never take wix on face value as they always promise way more than they can deliver in a timely and acceptable fashion, or at least, so far that has been their development and feature expansion record.
Also, I advise you dig SEOmoz real deep and find a few other threads about wix and reasons I and others have discussed for and against Wix when it comes to SEO
wix currently has no 301 or canonical control, no authorship tag and not really a SEO friendly blog yet.
Otherwise, what you read about !# signs and reasons people use to say is bad for SEO, does not apply to wix and all is good in that regard.
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