My immediate thought was it is largely down to the person who made the site. WIX is targeted at business owners with ZERO skills to do it themselves. so it makes sense to also assume that the average WIX site has likely not had any SEO done at all as the person who made the website has no idea what SEO even is. Whereas the people making WordPress websites are more likley to be web designers and developers or at the very least more clued up and thus will have performed some SEO on the site.
My thoughts exactly. I will say. I am an SEO Vet. I have an Wix site that is not ranking. It is a site I admit I am not showing a bunch of love. But 6 months in no Search Traffic at all. If this site was on WordPress. I think it would have traffic. But that is just a hunch
It was exactly what I thought. People who use WordPress tend to have SEO knowledge as well, and considering that WIX's target audience is primarily people with little or no experience creating websites, it makes total sense. I can tell you this: I have a 4-month-old website with 40 posts and around 80 keywords in Google's top 10 and 20 in the top 3. It all comes down to the website creator's SEO and efficient use of the WIX platform. For example, I avoid using multiple fonts, compressing photos, and removing apps that can slow down the site. However, this post needs to be updated, as it's been five years since its creation. WIX has evolved a lot since then.
This is a very good video. I’ve tried using both Wix and WordPress, I found navigating through WordPress confusing and I wasn’t ever able to get help fixing problems and we kept on getting hacked through WordPress. I am not sure why this would happen, I think that it may have been the hosting company. I also felt limited in how I can design the site, since I didn’’t know coding. I was very frustrated with it. Wix has been okay for us, even though it has its flaws, mainly the lag and glitches in the apps. But the customer service is always helpful for us. Another reason why I like Wix is because of its CRM tools. Everything is just more easier to understand. We also use Wix because we don’t have too much time to manage and most developers charge too much to manage it or fix a problem. Our business is on the first page of Google with Wix, where as when we were using WP, we couldn’t even rank. That may be because of the level of technical skills required to and because we are in a very niche industry and are the only business who offers our manufacturing service we offer.In conclusion, I believe that Wix is a more convenient method for many small businesses because the platform is easy to navigate and learn. Honestly, we are like the 3rd or 4th business listed in Goggle. The ones that are listed before us are our distributors. It works out for us either way. I am hoping they continue to improve their flexibility when it comes to SEO and site development tools. I do love that they try to keep customers’ data secure. Maybe that’s why they have these limitations. I would like to switch to WordPress just so I can try and code more while learning. But the incentive for us really isn’t; there as a small niche business. Wix does the job.
We have to keep in mind that if you are using wix, it's likely that you're in very early stages of your business and don't have much capital to invest on a site, let alone an seo strategy. That human and financial factor is a key thing to factor in.
@@AhrefsCom Let's remember the median numbers. Wix CAN work and it seems that some people are making it work. But how much harder is it? Like you said though, the niche matters and I agree on the inconclusiveness. The JS matter is also one to consider and may even have the potential to be THE edge factor that would put WP ahead in a perfect scenario where everyone spends the same time and money capital on SEO.
I mean, if your business is not in high competition and your target audience already know about you - Wix is totally fine here. It will not work when talking about advanced SEO strategies for "heavy market", simple hreflang tags are missing...
Using Median is very uncommon outside of pure statistics. It's great you've made the effort show "real" results and not biased statistics that's so common.
I use WIX and for driving sales from Google Ads and Microsoft Ads it has been great. I just started SEO and have already ranked on the first page for sand tray kits (a major keyword for my niche). And support is amazing. I call Wix with a question and get right in, they answer my question. If I were to scale to over 1M I probably would implement a larger type website function to go international and have an ERP management system. But for starters I think WIX really fits to bill. It's extremely difficult to get immediate assistance from Wordpress.
Wix can work for starter websites. As for WordPress, I was referring to the .org version, which doesn't come with any kind of support, but the community is pretty large that you can find help pretty much anywhere :)
I have highly ranked a WIX site in a fairly competitive space in the local market. I am picking up another client who has a Wix site. We are going to start with what we have and go from there. I’ll keep you posted.
I only use wix for not only my website but for my clients as well. I have several websites that rank #1 Globally for many different business categories and keywords / phrases. It all comes down to knowing how to do seo properly. I choose wix over anything else.
Thanks for sharing, John. I wasn't able to see such things from a dozen or so websites I manually entered in Ahrefs' Site Explorer, but kudos to you :)
True! I work with both, WIX and WORDPRESS, same business and same marketing approach. WIX has 600 access per month and WORDPRESS has 9.5K access per month. It does not mean that it will convert that much, but it converts better than WIX. In my experience, if you don't have any experience on webmaster/webdesigner, or, if you are running your own business and want to build some quick website, WIX is much easier. If you have some webmaster/webdesign knowledge, or, if you are quick learning. Go with WORDPRESS.
Very much needed video. I agree with your conclusions, but there is a factor that people with Wordpress tend to spend money on SEO as a-pose to WIX which is offen people just making a quick website themselves, thus effecting the data. But I think you accounted for this with then mean. 👍
It boils down to customization, WordPress offers more customization which directly affects the amount SEO issues that can be addressed. Wix restrictrictions make SEO next to null which directly affects how Google crawls and relates the website material when indexing.
Definitely more customization available in self-hosted WordPress sites. But do note that there are people out there that don't like WordPress. It all comes down to values and what you want to achieve :)
Great Video! Please do a WIX vs SQUARESPACE video like this as it'll be more like Apples vs Apples. We need to keep in mind WIX and Wordpress users have very different needs. One wants to get up a quick website without little skills and as you say, probably uses it for branding (with support from social media traffic) and the other wants to dominate the Web :-P Anyway, useful information and I'll pass it onto my audience.
Wordpress can be customized a lot and can be speed optimized which is the greatest benefit to me. But wix is neither truly customizable nor speedy. Wix is slower.
Thank you so much for the thorough analysis. As I've been getting my feet we in SEO I've been asking this question with no clear. You provided enough information for me to make my own conclusion, it depends on what your goal is on which will work better for SEO. You rock Sam & Ahrefs.
This is what I always communicate to my clients where Wix is a good starting platform for low budget startup business and when the business grows they should look for a better CMS platform for a couple of reasons which were mentioned in the last part of this video.
@@AhrefsCom LIke you showed in the video, LJS's is getting mostly 'branded' traffic. They built that brand for decades on TV before most people used the web. Their site platform (imo) is primarily to target their captive/convinced audience. I don't think they care much about SEO.
That's real interesting as I had faced the same compatible situation building client sites. As most of them already done the websites in wix and after 1 or 2 years they have seen no traffic other than their own. Means no organic traffic. Even the sites later transferred to plain HTML5 websites which makes huge difference s, the WordPress sites do the same. Even we have amazingly seen the blogspot sites do better than wix.
Hey Sam, I am not a much of a talker, so I usually don't comment on your videos, but hey I watch all of them or almost all them. :) I must say the knowledge you share via your videos is incredible, and I'm sure people out there spending 100s or 1000s of $ for the same knowledge... BUT, I'd have a request/favor to ask - I was hoping if you could create a video on finding expired domains using Ahrefs... I would REALLLLY appreciate your help. Keep the knowledge coming and let the dummies like me become expert ;) Cheers Riz
I personally do not work SEO with customers that own a WIX website, it has too many limitations that make the work super time consuming and don't always get the expected results.
Hello. Thanks for all the top videos you make. I will watch this one tonight. Just to ask you a pinterest video, I'm already rocking this social and I'm curious to hear your tricks. Keep up the good work, Alexis from Belgium
Thank you for carrying out this research and comparing the data and creating this video. I would say that a lot of this data is hugely misleading by the fact that over the 3.2 million Wix sites compared to the same number of WP, the majority of those on Wix websites would have been created by people who knew nothing of SEO and rely heavily on the Wix inbuilt SEO that sucks. WP has been the go-to for people who know SEO, so therefore they are better DESIGNED for SEO purposes. Wix users, are on the whole novices and people trying to make a website themselves, whereas WP is used by professional designers and SEO savy people. So this data is comparing poorly designed websites to professionally designed websites. Can you not see how the effects all other SEO aspects? UX, time on page, bounce rates, speed, mobile friendly etc Also WP sites are more likely created by pro's are more likely to be running ongoing SEO activity, back linking activity etc than a novice on a Wix site. If you know about SEO and factor that in when designing a Wix website and conduct ongoing SEO you can compete for competitive keywords on Google. Yes there are some technical aspects that cannot be addressed on Wix currently, but it is an always progressing platform with weekly updates happening to the technology. For most SME a Wix website can compete and I have cases studies that confirm this vs handcoded, WP, Weebly, Squarespace.
This is very interesting! I use Wix because I started with no clue with website building or SEO...but as I am trying to improve my skills and site traffic I am finding wix basic and lacking. Do you think the situation is still the same in 2021 since you made this video?
It'll be the same because Wix is made for people who want to build their websites quickly or who do not really want to care so much about the technical side of building a website. It's great in that regard, but also limiting since you can't change the code base. - SQ
Wordpress is extremely powerful when it comes to SEO but updating plugins (10 each week) is insane. We ranked 1st page for very competitive keywords by using Wix SEO previously. So this all comes to competition and industry you are targeting my opinion. Currently using Wordpress and ranked 1st page easily but really hate updating plugins. P.S. Great video/help/study Sam. Thank you.
In the for what it is worth column, I checked with Wappalyzer and the Long John Silver's site is now a Wordpress site. I guess they got the message about SEO and Wix.
I started setting up another blog with wix (atfer my last one failed to get views), now I'm worried that even with all the keyword and SEO reasearch that I've been doing, that my website is just going to fail again :/
Hey, Sam. Ahrefs got many fans in China. Will you come to China to attend the Shenzhen SEO Conference in the middle of July. It is a great Chance to promote your business in China
Hello! How are you? I face a problem! Can you please help me out? When i save my new content in draft, after that i can't published it, coz when i click on Edit, it's not working!
I'm a wix expert. I have designed my website and my clients website on wix. I did feel the SEO work was limited before they updated, now I can add schema tags and add canonical. I didn't face much difficulty in ranking my clients websites.
I have found across two Wix websites that I run, that meta descriptions and canonical references are only correct on the first page load or if you reload a page. Any additional navigated Pages afterward inherit incorrectly the value in the code on the landing page. I see the same problem with Google Analytics if you set it up via custom implementation. So something screwy is happening with wix's code.
Wix and sqaurespace are aweful because of how limited they are when trying to customize things. WordPress is so much better to use when you want to do something specifically. I don't take on clients who have either of those two. They're too much of a headache
I was using wix but i don't seem any difference between wix and worldpres but sites are slower in wix than wordpress but i remember that wix ranked once
WordPress should make the process more user-friendly like wix. The only thing thats going against wordpress is poor customer service and not being user friendly like wix.
I want to rank my blog in Google, but I don't have much technical knowledge. Would wordpress be a difficult platform for me? Should I go for WIX? Please help.
Hello my name is John, i run a pest control business in oklahoma. I am currently trying to learn the Ahrefs tool so that i can start doing my own seo. I have been taken advantage of by a few seo guys that didnt do a good job for us. We switched from wordpress to wix about 4 years ago because our current seo team said so. Now if i switch back to wordpress will i lose all my work that we have done over the years? Such as Backlinks, Keywords, Content, or google rep?
Content - you need to recreate pages using WordPress Backlinks - if you use the same URL structure - no problem. Otherwise, you will need to work on redirects, so that old URLs with some backlinks will be redirected to relevant new URLs of the new site. In that wait you will keep all of the "link juice" Keywords - rankings will depend on how well you transfer content, how well you do redirects and how well you do onpage optimization Hope that helps. Good luck! - Max
Hey could u tell me about wix blog seo? Some say wix blog seo is not good as compare to wordpress I recently started with wix and after listening to all these things i feel like i wasted my money.
It really depends on what you're using it for. If you're just setting up a basic website, Wix is fine. You can still rank in Google with Wix. SEOs prefer Wordpress because it's easier to edit and fix things. So, if you're trying go more advanced, then WP might be a better option. - SQ
Wix simply doesn’t rant well.. we have one of the best SEO in our partners website but it doesn’t rank for any of their generic key word... and seen this in few other sites on Wix and we were told it was strongly because of the Java script
I don't think Google ranks based on the platform you use. It might affect rankings because the platform is not flexible enough to adjust certain things. - SQ
As far as I know Drupal can be optimized well, but popularity of this CMS, plugins, amount of developers on the market, as well as their cost tells me to focus on WordPress. - Max
Maybe we will publish a video like that in the future. Meanwhile you might want to check a video on eCommerce SEO - ua-cam.com/video/tDanA-9wi6Q/v-deo.html
Perhaps, we'll dig into Shopify SEO in another video. We do have a video on ecommerce SEO if that's what you're interested in :) ua-cam.com/video/tDanA-9wi6Q/v-deo.html
@@AhrefsCom Sorry, you asked. On a limited budget, I would have to take SEMRush. $179 vs $999 is a HUGE difference. Would also like to see the free 7 day trials come back! Just my opinion. I know they have they're differences, but c'mon; $999/month?
I am not an expert and I have made many Wix sites for small businesses. I never thought about SEO. They have customers who visit the site. After watching this I think what should I do? Move to wordpress.
If you and your clients are happy - I do not think you need to do any changes. But it is worth having an alternative, in case you face any problems ;) - Max
My target or Clients are clothing Brand names. I am a sock manufacture. This is an extremely small nitch. Would you be interested in consulting in an easy nitch run?
From what I can see, WiX has one of the best security implementations out there. This is probably the reason there are restrictions on what can be done. More flexibility -> hacker heaven.
George, could you advise SEO-tricks/tools for WIX for an online accessories shop which wants to get first page ranking on Google along with getting growing organic traffic? Thank you!
My immediate thought was it is largely down to the person who made the site. WIX is targeted at business owners with ZERO skills to do it themselves. so it makes sense to also assume that the average WIX site has likely not had any SEO done at all as the person who made the website has no idea what SEO even is.
Whereas the people making WordPress websites are more likley to be web designers and developers or at the very least more clued up and thus will have performed some SEO on the site.
Yeah. We mentioned something similar, which is why we studied the referring websites linking to these sites. Definitely a good point, Russ.
My thoughts exactly. I will say. I am an SEO Vet. I have an Wix site that is not ranking. It is a site I admit I am not showing a bunch of love. But 6 months in no Search Traffic at all. If this site was on WordPress. I think it would have traffic. But that is just a hunch
It was exactly what I thought. People who use WordPress tend to have SEO knowledge as well, and considering that WIX's target audience is primarily people with little or no experience creating websites, it makes total sense. I can tell you this: I have a 4-month-old website with 40 posts and around 80 keywords in Google's top 10 and 20 in the top 3. It all comes down to the website creator's SEO and efficient use of the WIX platform. For example, I avoid using multiple fonts, compressing photos, and removing apps that can slow down the site.
However, this post needs to be updated, as it's been five years since its creation. WIX has evolved a lot since then.
This is a very good video. I’ve tried using both Wix and WordPress, I found navigating through WordPress confusing and I wasn’t ever able to get help fixing problems and we kept on getting hacked through WordPress. I am not sure why this would happen, I think that it may have been the hosting company. I also felt limited in how I can design the site, since I didn’’t know coding. I was very frustrated with it. Wix has been okay for us, even though it has its flaws, mainly the lag and glitches in the apps. But the customer service is always helpful for us. Another reason why I like Wix is because of its CRM tools. Everything is just more easier to understand. We also use Wix because we don’t have too much time to manage and most developers charge too much to manage it or fix a problem. Our business is on the first page of Google with Wix, where as when we were using WP, we couldn’t even rank. That may be because of the level of technical skills required to and because we are in a very niche industry and are the only business who offers our manufacturing service we offer.In conclusion, I believe that Wix is a more convenient method for many small businesses because the platform is easy to navigate and learn. Honestly, we are like the 3rd or 4th business listed in Goggle. The ones that are listed before us are our distributors. It works out for us either way. I am hoping they continue to improve their flexibility when it comes to SEO and site development tools. I do love that they try to keep customers’ data secure. Maybe that’s why they have these limitations. I would like to switch to WordPress just so I can try and code more while learning. But the incentive for us really isn’t; there as a small niche business. Wix does the job.
That's cool! Whatever works for you works the best 👍
- SQ
We have to keep in mind that if you are using wix, it's likely that you're in very early stages of your business and don't have much capital to invest on a site, let alone an seo strategy. That human and financial factor is a key thing to factor in.
It also depends on your niche and business expansion. Simple solution for a quick start always makes a deal.
@@AhrefsCom Let's remember the median numbers. Wix CAN work and it seems that some people are making it work. But how much harder is it? Like you said though, the niche matters and I agree on the inconclusiveness. The JS matter is also one to consider and may even have the potential to be THE edge factor that would put WP ahead in a perfect scenario where everyone spends the same time and money capital on SEO.
I mean, if your business is not in high competition and your target audience already know about you - Wix is totally fine here. It will not work when talking about advanced SEO strategies for "heavy market", simple hreflang tags are missing...
I can confirm this for myself as a newbie
Using Median is very uncommon outside of pure statistics. It's great you've made the effort show "real" results and not biased statistics that's so common.
Thank you for the feedback. I am glad you found it valuable!
I use WIX and for driving sales from Google Ads and Microsoft Ads it has been great. I just started SEO and have already ranked on the first page for sand tray kits (a major keyword for my niche). And support is amazing. I call Wix with a question and get right in, they answer my question. If I were to scale to over 1M I probably would implement a larger type website function to go international and have an ERP management system. But for starters I think WIX really fits to bill. It's extremely difficult to get immediate assistance from Wordpress.
Wix can work for starter websites. As for WordPress, I was referring to the .org version, which doesn't come with any kind of support, but the community is pretty large that you can find help pretty much anywhere :)
We have small manufacturing business and an ERP would be awesome.
I have highly ranked a WIX site in a fairly competitive space in the local market. I am picking up another client who has a Wix site. We are going to start with what we have and go from there. I’ll keep you posted.
We will gladly review your case with some data! Thank you!
why not transfer from Wix to WordPress?
Any update
I only use wix for not only my website but for my clients as well. I have several websites that rank #1 Globally for many different business categories and keywords / phrases. It all comes down to knowing how to do seo properly. I choose wix over anything else.
Thanks for sharing, John. I wasn't able to see such things from a dozen or so websites I manually entered in Ahrefs' Site Explorer, but kudos to you :)
Lmao
@@AhrefsCom LOOOL
Totally agree with you. If you want to get into SEO, Affiliate marketing etc. game - start learning/using Wordpress!
Or hire a developer😂
@@AhrefsCom and spend a forrtune 😂
True! I work with both, WIX and WORDPRESS, same business and same marketing approach. WIX has 600 access per month and WORDPRESS has 9.5K access per month. It does not mean that it will convert that much, but it converts better than WIX.
In my experience, if you don't have any experience on webmaster/webdesigner, or, if you are running your own business and want to build some quick website, WIX is much easier.
If you have some webmaster/webdesign knowledge, or, if you are quick learning. Go with WORDPRESS.
Good point! Thank you for sharing
At some point, I knew these "Median and Mean" is going to haunt me. Should have learned them well in high school. Oh by the way nice comparison Sam.
you're welcome, Rijo 😂
Lol
Hi Mate,
Really appreciate this video.
Do you think we could have an updated video kindly ?
Thanks for the suggestion - we might update the video in the future 🙏
-Helen
Can you do the same experiment with Squarespace please?
We might do similar case study for Squarespace in the future
@@AhrefsCom Looking forward to it!
@@AhrefsCom Yes, it will be very interesting!
Been using Wix for a few months now and so far we reach top rank with a few word phrases. Also having it connected to google helps!
Thanks for sharing, glad to know your a climbing the ladder.
Very much needed video. I agree with your conclusions, but there is a factor that people with Wordpress tend to spend money on SEO as a-pose to WIX which is offen people just making a quick website themselves, thus effecting the data.
But I think you accounted for this with then mean. 👍
That was the reason why we analyzed two groups - with no traffic and 100+ visits per month. Thank you for feedback!
would love an updated video on this. thank you for all the awesome content!
You're welcome!
Please create a detailed SeO video tutorial for Wix!! As I have a blog written on the WIX platform. I am finding it difficult to promote the page
It boils down to customization, WordPress offers more customization which directly affects the amount SEO issues that can be addressed. Wix restrictrictions make SEO next to null which directly affects how Google crawls and relates the website material when indexing.
Definitely more customization available in self-hosted WordPress sites. But do note that there are people out there that don't like WordPress. It all comes down to values and what you want to achieve :)
Great Video! Please do a WIX vs SQUARESPACE video like this as it'll be more like Apples vs Apples. We need to keep in mind WIX and Wordpress users have very different needs. One wants to get up a quick website without little skills and as you say, probably uses it for branding (with support from social media traffic) and the other wants to dominate the Web :-P
Anyway, useful information and I'll pass it onto my audience.
Thanks for suggestion and sharing 😉
WordPress is Good and Sam is Great.
😎
Wordpress can be customized a lot and can be speed optimized which is the greatest benefit to me. But wix is neither truly customizable nor speedy. Wix is slower.
Totally agree here
Can you make case study Shopify seo vs Wordpress
Sounds like a good idea, we will review the option for that case study😉
Great idea!!!
Thank you so much for the thorough analysis. As I've been getting my feet we in SEO I've been asking this question with no clear. You provided enough information for me to make my own conclusion, it depends on what your goal is on which will work better for SEO. You rock Sam & Ahrefs.
Thank you for such a kind feedback! I am glad you enjoyed the content!
This is what I always communicate to my clients where Wix is a good starting platform for low budget startup business and when the business grows they should look for a better CMS platform for a couple of reasons which were mentioned in the last part of this video.
I believe many consultants and agencies have this problem. However, we did see some larger brands (ie. Long john silvers) who is still using Wix :)
@@AhrefsCom LIke you showed in the video, LJS's is getting mostly 'branded' traffic. They built that brand for decades on TV before most people used the web. Their site platform (imo) is primarily to target their captive/convinced audience. I don't think they care much about SEO.
That's real interesting as I had faced the same compatible situation building client sites. As most of them already done the websites in wix and after 1 or 2 years they have seen no traffic other than their own. Means no organic traffic. Even the sites later transferred to plain HTML5 websites which makes huge difference s, the WordPress sites do the same. Even we have amazingly seen the blogspot sites do better than wix.
Interesting results! Thanks for sharing :)
this video was really good, genuinely informative. can you please make an update video for how wix fares on seo today?
Not sure we plan to do it but thank you for the suggestion! 🙏
-Helen
Hey Sam, I am not a much of a talker, so I usually don't comment on your videos, but hey I watch all of them or almost all them. :) I must say the knowledge you share via your videos is incredible, and I'm sure people out there spending 100s or 1000s of $ for the same knowledge... BUT, I'd have a request/favor to ask - I was hoping if you could create a video on finding expired domains using Ahrefs... I would REALLLLY appreciate your help.
Keep the knowledge coming and let the dummies like me become expert ;)
Cheers
Riz
There is no tool in Ahrefs that can report you expired domains, I am sorry.
I personally do not work SEO with customers that own a WIX website, it has too many limitations that make the work super time consuming and don't always get the expected results.
Thanks for sharing!
8:50 : wix allows us to edit the robot.txt files today. is there any other features that wix has improved on since the time of this video in 2019?
Josh, Do you have your personal experience using WIX and creating organic traffics for your website? Thank you.
I never comment videos. But I had to on this one. What a great video man! You explained everything so clearly. Thanks so much. Kowabunga!
You're welcome! Good to hear from you :)
Interesting results. Thanks for sharing Sam 👍. Wordpress is for the big boys.
James, thank you!
Hello. Thanks for all the top videos you make. I will watch this one tonight. Just to ask you a pinterest video, I'm already rocking this social and I'm curious to hear your tricks. Keep up the good work, Alexis from Belgium
We do not plan to create a video devoted to Pinterest in the nearest future
Thank you for carrying out this research and comparing the data and creating this video. I would say that a lot of this data is hugely misleading by the fact that over the 3.2 million Wix sites compared to the same number of WP, the majority of those on Wix websites would have been created by people who knew nothing of SEO and rely heavily on the Wix inbuilt SEO that sucks. WP has been the go-to for people who know SEO, so therefore they are better DESIGNED for SEO purposes. Wix users, are on the whole novices and people trying to make a website themselves, whereas WP is used by professional designers and SEO savy people. So this data is comparing poorly designed websites to professionally designed websites. Can you not see how the effects all other SEO aspects? UX, time on page, bounce rates, speed, mobile friendly etc Also WP sites are more likely created by pro's are more likely to be running ongoing SEO activity, back linking activity etc than a novice on a Wix site. If you know about SEO and factor that in when designing a Wix website and conduct ongoing SEO you can compete for competitive keywords on Google. Yes there are some technical aspects that cannot be addressed on Wix currently, but it is an always progressing platform with weekly updates happening to the technology. For most SME a Wix website can compete and I have cases studies that confirm this vs handcoded, WP, Weebly, Squarespace.
Looks like we covered that part in the video itself.
Hello, what do you think about Zyro? For the SEO vs Wordpress
This is very interesting! I use Wix because I started with no clue with website building or SEO...but as I am trying to improve my skills and site traffic I am finding wix basic and lacking. Do you think the situation is still the same in 2021 since you made this video?
It'll be the same because Wix is made for people who want to build their websites quickly or who do not really want to care so much about the technical side of building a website. It's great in that regard, but also limiting since you can't change the code base.
- SQ
@@AhrefsCom thanks for super swift reply!
So what? What better for SEO Wix or Wordpress? I just dont know english much to undrstand all of this video. ty if you answer me
There were positive results found for both CMS, but we found WordPress to be more SEO friendly in terms of settings and configuration.
- Max
@@AhrefsCom wow thx for a short answer! I learn English to understand the rest of the subtleties 👍
Professional analysis. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
-Helen
Has this changed in 2021?
I have seen that Wix has made huge updates about SEO
Thank you! Great review! Very helpful and knowledgeable.
Thanks for watching!
-Helen
Wordpress is extremely powerful when it comes to SEO but updating plugins (10 each week) is insane. We ranked 1st page for very competitive keywords by using Wix SEO previously. So this all comes to competition and industry you are targeting my opinion. Currently using Wordpress and ranked 1st page easily but really hate updating plugins. P.S. Great video/help/study Sam. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing!
- Max
In the for what it is worth column, I checked with Wappalyzer and the Long John Silver's site is now a Wordpress site. I guess they got the message about SEO and Wix.
I noticed that too!
-Sam
I started setting up another blog with wix (atfer my last one failed to get views), now I'm worried that even with all the keyword and SEO reasearch that I've been doing, that my website is just going to fail again :/
Thanks for giving such valuable information Ahrefs!!
Glad it was helpful!
wix does not allow to modify sitemap.xml file (which is important for search console).
as well as robots.txt and .htaccess files. Usual problem for SaaS platforms, unfortunately.
Pls do make a WP and weebly comparison video too.
Hi, Will it help SEO to use tags? or that was in the past and now better not to used?
There’s no an official confirmation that Google use tag as ranking factor
@@AhrefsCom Thanks
Hey, Sam. Ahrefs got many fans in China. Will you come to China to attend the Shenzhen SEO Conference in the middle of July. It is a great Chance to promote your business in China
Thanks so much. If you're the organizer of the conference, it's best to contact our support team via. live chat so we can forward off the request :)
@@AhrefsCom OK. I am not an organizer.But， Big fan of You and Ahrefs. Big fan of SEO
Is this a result of the platform or the people (lay people vs marketers) developing each platform?
What do you mean?
Can you make case study Shopify seo vs Wordpress
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Hello! How are you?
I face a problem! Can you please help me out?
When i save my new content in draft, after that i can't published it, coz when i click on Edit, it's not working!
Might be plugin issue. Or ask your hosting provider for support.
Thank you! It’s solved!
I'm a wix expert. I have designed my website and my clients website on wix. I did feel the SEO work was limited before they updated, now I can add schema tags and add canonical. I didn't face much difficulty in ranking my clients websites.
Thanks for sharing!
I have found across two Wix websites that I run, that meta descriptions and canonical references are only correct on the first page load or if you reload a page. Any additional navigated Pages afterward inherit incorrectly the value in the code on the landing page. I see the same problem with Google Analytics if you set it up via custom implementation. So something screwy is happening with wix's code.
Interesting!
- SQ
How much you take from wordpress? Of course Wix user are less then wordpress so wordpress is high
Not sure what you mean here?
- SQ
great video, very likeable narrator, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for your kind words.
-Sam
Legend, really appreciated it.
You're welcome!
Wix and sqaurespace are aweful because of how limited they are when trying to customize things.
WordPress is so much better to use when you want to do something specifically.
I don't take on clients who have either of those two. They're too much of a headache
Thanks for sharing
I was using wix but i don't seem any difference between wix and worldpres but sites are slower in wix than wordpress but i remember that wix ranked once
Nothing wrong with Wix. Wix sites can still rank. SEOs prefer WordPress because it is more flexible.
- SQ
Also, that SEO Hero thing Wix did was so weird. Then they used a cartoon Rand all over the site they built.
I believe they have another competition (Wix SEO battle). Except they cut the prize money in half :)
Finally some quality content
I am glad you enjoyed🙂
@@AhrefsCom No, It's everytime Awesome.
Quality content about Wix😎😁
WordPress should make the process more user-friendly like wix. The only thing thats going against wordpress is poor customer service and not being user friendly like wix.
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I want to rank my blog in Google, but I don't have much technical knowledge. Would wordpress be a difficult platform for me? Should I go for WIX? Please help.
You can try both and check which one works better for you.
- Max
@@AhrefsCom thank you 🙂
I'd expect WordPress to be better mainly because more professional SEO and web designers use this over Wix.
It is not better because more people choose it. It is more manageable, that is why more SEO professionals prefer choosing WordPress.
I've recently signed up to WIX, but this video is telling me I'm screwed if I don't use WordPress smh. Wish I'd known this before committing to WIX.
You're not screwed, but depending on your goals, it might be better long-term if you use WordPress (or something similar).
- SQ
Wow, amazing study
Thank you!
great value. great content.
Thank you!
-Helen
Hello my name is John, i run a pest control business in oklahoma. I am currently trying to learn the Ahrefs tool so that i can start doing my own seo. I have been taken advantage of by a few seo guys that didnt do a good job for us. We switched from wordpress to wix about 4 years ago because our current seo team said so. Now if i switch back to wordpress will i lose all my work that we have done over the years? Such as Backlinks, Keywords, Content, or google rep?
Content - you need to recreate pages using WordPress
Backlinks - if you use the same URL structure - no problem. Otherwise, you will need to work on redirects, so that old URLs with some backlinks will be redirected to relevant new URLs of the new site. In that wait you will keep all of the "link juice"
Keywords - rankings will depend on how well you transfer content, how well you do redirects and how well you do onpage optimization
Hope that helps. Good luck!
- Max
Hey could u tell me about wix blog seo?
Some say wix blog seo is not good as compare to wordpress
I recently started with wix and after listening to all these things i feel like i wasted my money.
It really depends on what you're using it for. If you're just setting up a basic website, Wix is fine. You can still rank in Google with Wix. SEOs prefer Wordpress because it's easier to edit and fix things. So, if you're trying go more advanced, then WP might be a better option.
- SQ
Hey Ahrefs, Wix is not much of deal these days. How about WordPress vs Webflow for SEO. It's a better competitor.
We'll consider that. Thanks for the suggestion!
- SQ
Could I fix the results with Google ads ?
I take it the same goes for shopify?
Sam Oh, would you suggest Wordpress.com or .org? ... thank you!
These are two different websites offering different services. So I am not sure I understand your question, please specify.
- Max
Ahrefs I’m just starting out and was told to use Wordpress.org because it was simpler to use and understand for a newbie. Thanks
Is wix good for blogging?
thank you - great job!!
Thanks, Christoph! 😎
your Great Job sam...Thanks
Thank you!
Our agency will not work with a client on Wix, unless they're willing to migrate to WP.
Useful information for those, who wants to launch a website and promote it with an SEO agency. Thank you!
Wix simply doesn’t rant well.. we have one of the best SEO in our partners website but it doesn’t rank for any of their generic key word... and seen this in few other sites on Wix and we were told it was strongly because of the Java script
I don't think Google ranks based on the platform you use. It might affect rankings because the platform is not flexible enough to adjust certain things.
- SQ
I want to know how resourceful is drupal against wordpress
As far as I know Drupal can be optimized well, but popularity of this CMS, plugins, amount of developers on the market, as well as their cost tells me to focus on WordPress.
- Max
is this still the case in 2021 or they've become better at seo and organic traffic?
Not sure. I don't use Wix personally.
-Sam
Thnx.. it's really helpful🤞😍
You are welcome!
Next, wordpress vs blogger 🙏
We've had requests for blogger and squarespace now :) Perhaps in the future.
Really useful video buddy
Thanks, Ben.
how about Wordpress WooCommerce and Shopify SEO?
Maybe we will publish a video like that in the future. Meanwhile you might want to check a video on eCommerce SEO - ua-cam.com/video/tDanA-9wi6Q/v-deo.html
My opinion is that wix is a pain in the ass... so I moved to WP and started ranking 👌
Keep doing the great work😉
What about Shopify and SEO?
Perhaps, we'll dig into Shopify SEO in another video. We do have a video on ecommerce SEO if that's what you're interested in :)
ua-cam.com/video/tDanA-9wi6Q/v-deo.html
I was looking for Blogspot. I think Blogspot is dead now.
I think not many people use it today.
- SQ
@@AhrefsCom yeah, You are r8
Ok real question is where can I get one of those sick tshirts
We normally give them away at some conferences we sponsor :)
Is this still the same a year later?
We haven't done a new study for it, but I would say it's likely the same 🙂
- SQ
its bias because the average user of wordpress is more tech savvy then wix users. therefore this isnt a stratified sample test.
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Impressionnant
Why Your tool is so expensive ?
Comparing to?
@@AhrefsCom Sorry, you asked. On a limited budget, I would have to take SEMRush. $179 vs $999 is a HUGE difference. Would also like to see the free 7 day trials come back! Just my opinion. I know they have they're differences, but c'mon; $999/month?
I am not an expert and I have made many Wix sites for small businesses. I never thought about SEO. They have customers who visit the site. After watching this I think what should I do? Move to wordpress.
If you and your clients are happy - I do not think you need to do any changes. But it is worth having an alternative, in case you face any problems ;)
- Max
@@AhrefsCom Thank you
I am using Wix. i am worried now😟
You can still rank on Google with Wix. Plenty of sites do. Just that SEOs prefer WordPress because it's easier to change and fix things.
- SQ
This is BS. Wix must post all of the positive reviews.Try to get through to their support. Good luck
Sounds like you had some bad experience trying to do that. Sorry to hear that😕
My target or Clients are clothing Brand names. I am a sock manufacture. This is an extremely small nitch. Would you be interested in consulting in an easy nitch run?
That is not what Ahrefs do, you may consult with some SEO agencies about that.
Always WordPress.
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wix?! wordpress?! wtf?!!!
From what I can see, WiX has one of the best security implementations out there. This is probably the reason there are restrictions on what can be done. More flexibility -> hacker heaven.
George, could you advise SEO-tricks/tools for WIX for an online accessories shop which wants to get first page ranking on Google along with getting growing organic traffic? Thank you!