Intuit Website Hosting - Stand-Alone Webite?

[Jorge111]

Hi all!

My name is Yehuda and I'm new to this community. There's an issue i'm having trouble with:

My site is hosted by Intuit Websites, and I use their Website Builder. Though it has its own domain name, it seems my "site" may just be a subdomain of their intuitwebsites.com website. I'm trying to figure out if my site is actually a stand-alone website, and what ramifications/issues there be in terms of bot crawling & SEO.

Does anyone have a thought on this?

[Cocoonfxmedia]

I personally would swap to Wordpress, you will have better scope and development and SEO is easier. It would be easier to buy your own domain and find a host with Wordpress instant installer .

[Jorge111]

Hey man, thanks for the answer!

If I may, I'd like to get a better understanding of your input:

When you say SEO is easier with Wordpress, do you mean there are specific tweaks/actions I will be able to do that I will not have access to with my other host? Or can the same things be done, but it will be a little more challenging to accomplish them?

I hope I am making sense. I've already invested alot of time into my site with Intuit, and it will be difficult to start over from scratch with a new host so I am hoping to be able to keep what I have. I'm willing to put up with a system that's less efficient as long as at the end of the day I have the same control over the optimizing process.

(Either way i will be using a "drag & drop" editor because i am not proficient in HTML. I'm  seeking to develop SEo-type skills without necessarily learning full website HTML building abilities, if that's possible.)

Your feedback is appreciated!