@Casey

It is possible to customize product urls, meta titles and meta descriptions. Seo settings for product page

The same content will get the exact same ranking regardless of the CMS that produced it.

John Mueller said websites are websites for Google on the post that @Casey mentioned.

For most sites out there, the available SEO settings on Wix are enough and switching a CMS will not boost their rankings. There are, for sure, sites that require a different CMS than Wix but SEO is rarely the reason for it.

trimse,

The text editor allows full control on heading tags. It is up to you how many H1 tags will be on each page and what will be the text. You can check out this support page for more details https://www.wix.com/support/html5/article/adding-a-heading-tag

Let us know if this doesn't solve the issue.

Hi Rob,

Thanks for pointing out a problem. We forward your request to the relevant teams at Wix and they will try to take care of it as soon as possible.

Best.

kiranseo1,

From our extensive tests it seems like SE are reading all content and index it properly.

Can you share with us the issues you found on Wix with more details?

Thanks.

David,

A backlink from a Wix site is no different from any other backlink.

Please note that links from free wix sites are set as rel="nofollow". All the links from premium sites are set as follow

Blog - already in production but it is still tested with small amount of users

Hashbang in urls (#!) - this sign has no problem with ranking. This is the agreed sign for search engine that the site is based on Ajax technology.

301 redirect - no time estimation for now. This feature is relevant only for users who transfer existing site to Wix.

Google Analytics - send us a private message with more details and we will continue from there.

George,

These are great news and I hope you will keep up with these rankings.

I'll address few of the issues Omid and you pointed.

**Google **Analytic should work fine. Let us know if you have any problems with it.

Full meta tags management - It is now possible to use special characters in meta title and description. We should soon have the option to manually add meta tags, such as Google webmaster verification, Google+ tags... Editing canonical tags is not planned at the moment, I hope we can get to it.

301 redirect - We will have it for sure but it takes longer than expected.

Blog - We are about to launch a new blog solution and it looks great. If it cannot wait then you can find a blog app in the Wix app market with full seo.

RayMa,

Thank you for your great feedback.

Mapping old urls to new urls is definitely  a must have. We will do our best to deliver it.

Canonical - It looks like canonical control will make sense for your needs. We will check it.

Having said that, I don't think canonicals are a showstopper. If you think that each locality needs its own version, then search engines may understand it as well. An answer by Google for a similar issue (a bit old)  "@felipus I would not recommend using rel=canonical or 301 redirects if you are creating content for different geographic areas as this would most likely make geotargeting more difficult. " full post

@RayMa

Canonical: Search engines do not read the source code, they read the seo version of the pages. For the page http://about.wix.com/affiliate#!faq/cq3g Google will extract the data from the seo page http://about.wix.com/affiliate?escaped_fragment=faq/cq3g and here you see the correct canonical.

301 redirects: Very good point! We should solve it. Viewer will usually get the homepage for any invalid path, e.g. mydomain.com/invalidpath#!invalidhash will display the homepage. Google may get 404 on the seo version.

404: As said, users can rarely see 404 page as invalid urls are displaying the homepage.

Bing: Bing follows the Ajax Crawling and index internal pages, e.g. search _"​How much commission do Wix affiliates earn?" _and you will see the faq page from the first example. Please contact us with the site details so we can check your case.

George,

I can assure you that all your pages will be indexed properly along with their content. You will see it the next time Google will index your site

Le't look at this example, search Google for site:urbanhikersf.com and you will see all pages are indexed correctly. You can read their success story here http://www.wix.com/talks/your-stories/alexandra-kenin-entrepeneur/

The technical details: Wix is using Ajax Crawling solution. Ajax Crawling allows sites to serve dynamic content to the end users, while providing great user experience, and at the same time serve search engines the same content in a special version of the page. You can read it all in Google's documentation https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started , There is no problem with the #! in the urls, the canonical tags or the javascript code the users see.

Wix serves millions of clients and we see good results in search engines. We are constantly monitoring the performance and follow the latest changes in the SEO industry. Please let us know of any issue you find. The best address is our support team.

Espresseo,

There is no option to change canonicals manually. The reason we have the canonical tag, at the moment, is to double verify that different variations of url, if exists, will all have canonical to the same page. For each one of your pages you can see the version Google sees and check if the canonical was set properly. To see mydomain.com go to mydomain.com/?escaped_fragement and to see mydomain.com/#!page/id go to mydomain.com/?escaped_fragment=page/id

Why do you want to change canonicals? If there is a real need then we may consider a solution for this. We always keep in mind that wrong usage of canonicals can harm users.

I think that seeing your pages indexed correctly on Google is a good sign that everything is working as expected. We follow all Ajax Crawling instructions as well as all cloaking rules and there are millions of Wix pages indexed on Google for a long time without any quality issues. There is no way to manipulate the seo versions of the pages, it serves automatically the same content the users sees.

I am sorry for the delayed response and I will try to address all the above issues.

Wix SEO is based on Google Ajax Crawling solution for dynamic ajax pages. You can read the Google documentation here, https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started In short, Wix instructs search engines to read the content in a special version of the page which contains all the content in the source code of the page, unlike the original dynamic page. This is an acceptable solution in the industry and as you can see, Google indexes all pages content. Ajax crawling solution works nowadays for both Flash and Html sites.

SEOMOZ Issues. Although Ajax Crawling is fully supported by search engines, it is not fully supported by many third parties tools. We will check if we can work it out with SEOMOZ great tool.

Canonical urls - Since Search engines are extracting all data from the escaped fragment pages, the canonical tags in the escaped fragment are what's matters and not the ones in the viewer version (the version user's sees). Viewer version always shows root canonical (in fact it displays the same code for all pages). RayMa, please take a look at the escaped fragment versions of your pages and let me know if the canonical tags are set properly

Cloaking (Sorina) - As mentioned above, Wix is following all Ajax Crawling guidelines, whenever Google bot sees a page with Ajax Crawling meta tag, , or a url with hashbang, #!, then the bot goes directly to the seo version of the page.

404 links on Google Analytics (David) - Can you provide us some links so we can check it?

Please let me know if I have missed anything.

Hi Sorina,

Serving Google with as HTML version with the same content isn't cloacking. **Cloaking **refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines.

If you'll go and read about it more on Google Help Center you will find out that Google is recommending different ways to serve pages and content to his bots in case they can't see the original content (JavaScript, Flash, Videos, Dynamic Content and more). Basically, Google is asking webmasters to serve the content users see in a way his bots will understand.

So is totally OKto serve Google bots their own version as long as it is exactly the same as the content viewed by the users.

Again, I recommend you read more about it on Google Webmaster Help, but I can ensure you that WIX users are enjoying a great level of SEO whether their sites are build with our HTML5 editor or with our Flash editor.

I hoped I clarified your question.

Eitan

Hi Sorina,

Serving Google with as HTML version with the same content isn't cloacking. **Cloaking **refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines.

If you'll go and read about it more on Google Help Center you will find out that Google is recommending different ways to serve pages and content to his bots in case they can't see the original content (JavaScript, Flash, Videos, Dynamic Content and more). Basically, Google is asking webmasters to serve the content users see in a way his bots will understand.

So is totally OKto serve Google bots their own version as long as it is exactly the same as the content viewed by the users.

Again, I recommend you read more about it on Google Webmaster Help, but I can ensure you that WIX users are enjoying a great level of SEO whether their sites are build with our HTML5 editor or with our Flash editor.

I hoped I clarified your question.

Eitan

Hi Guys, My name is Eitan and I am the SEO manager for WIX.com. I would like to try and clarify some issues raised here, so you will get a full picture regarding the SEO level for sites generated by Wix. Previously, sites were generated with Wix were based on Flash in the client side and seo was an issue for Wix to deal with and find a solution. In order to overcome the seo challenges, Wix came up with the solution of auto-generating HTML versions for each Flash site and serving the Html version to the search engines bots on the server side. So, the end results in terms of seo for Wix's Flash sites were very good. We can proudly say, that the seo level for those sites were well above the average seo level of most internet sites around the web. After explaining about Wix Flash sites seo, I would like to present much bigger news.... Since March 2012, we launched our new HTML5 editor which enables users to build themselves a free Html5 website. I encourage you to visit our sites and check hundreds of new and amazing Html5 templates. Our Html5 sites, are seo friendly and present top level of seo by using AJAX crawling, schema and microdata, adjusting your page titles and description, optimizing you images and more. Our users should know that by using the seo widget inside the editors, they are able to optimize their sites even more. I would like to conclude by saying that Wix sites (both Flash & Html5) have a decent level of SEO, and to ensure our users that they enjoy a well above market level of seo. I will be happy to answers any questions you may have in the future as well. Regards, Eitan Helman Seo Team Manager - Wix.com

Hi Karl (and the rest),

My name is Nir and I manage the SEO development effort in Wix.com.

I want to clear some thing regarding Wix.com and SEO.

Wix is a flash based website builder but as some mentioned for every Flash website that you build Wix is automatically generates a search engine friendly HTML edition of the site so that the site will be visible to search engine.

Wix.com site is build using Wix technology and we're doing fine in SE positions and traffic.

We're constantly working on improving our platform SEO and many of the latest changes that we did came from our users requests and comments.

We're working on enabling different description along side other advance SEO properties. (soon we plan implemented Schema.org for our eCommerce solution).

Please feel free to ask anything and I'll try to answer any SEO related question you might have.

Nir Sagiv

UPDATE: our eCommerce solution is currently implemented using micro-formats and we're working on schema.org implementation in the future.