What Is your view on wix domains?

[cheflekker]

For almost 3 years I am the owner of www.cheflekker.com. A wix domain.... It was sure easy to set up and still easy to change the layout. Only problem is... SEO. For the most part I find it difficult to monitor my site on areas of improvement and actually see the results.

What is your opinion on the wix (ajax) program? any tips?

[Alick300]

Hi,

I haven't used wix domain ever but I found a post here in moz community that will help you. Please check below thread.

https://moz.com/community/q/wix-is-it-any-good-for-seo

Thanks

[GPainter]

Hello,

For SEO Wix is terrible to keep optimized, sure its easy to get a look and design etc. however they are difficult to optimize and its a bit of an uphill struggle to get what you want out of.

Hope that helps.

[solvid]

I wouldn't say that Wix is that bad when it comes to SEO. Yes, there are limitations like no access to source code, robots.txt, little control over sitemap, canonical tags, funny "#!" characters in URLs (due to Ajax technology) etc. The blog part is pretty limited, you can't change meta titles, urls, descriptions, can't put rel=canonicals.

That said, I think Wix got a lot better in the last year or so, in terms of SEO. You can optimise every page of your site, they got better with the website load time, they use schema markup for product pages, etc.

Furthermore, I had few clients with Wix websites, and can say that we've achieved some good SEO results. Of course, if you have a large website that requires some advanced technical operations, I wouldn't recommend Wix. But, for small websites, I think Wix does a decent job.

[Yoav-Blustein]

Wix always had and always will have problems.
They are slowly trying to understand the importance of SEO for their users.
They do a wonderful job giving you a "DIY" site creator which is super easy to use and setup but for that you comprimize a lot of other things.

What Dmytro mentioned about funny #! characters in the URLs was actually Wix users nightmare. Around last october (2015) majority of Wix sites got deindexed just because of poor development QA and laziness of Wix programmers. They assumed whatever they want to assume to cut corners with Google Ajax issue. IMO Wix never was good enough SEO wise.