WIX - problem with On-Page Optimization picking up SEO

[sportinglists]

Hi,

I'm new to here so please be gentle!
I have a WIX site and had it for a few months. I have m own domain sportinglists.com and I am using MOZ to improve the SEO. Having read a few things it seems that I may struggle, given that I have a WIX site.

I am playing around with a certain page, that will most likely be the most popular one on the site (fingers crossed), however when I run On-Page Optimization it fails to pick up the following things that I know I have added to the page;

H1 (page title) - I added through the text options
Body text  - I added paragraph text and
Image Alt - put in through the settings

Is this because that it is made in WIX that this won't be picked up or is more likely my incompetency?

Thanks

[Linda-Vassily]

I don't know WIX websites (though from the quick search I did, it does look like you have your work cut out for you) but I took a look at your site with the Screaming Frog SEO spider.
The crawl picks up a total of 14 pages and the H1s are all the same. (There are also secondary H1s that are mostly the same.) It doesn't pick up the images, although of course I can see that there are images.

So I agree with your conclusion that you might have a bit of a struggle. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful--maybe there are some WIX users out there who can share how they overcame these issues.

[atxmichaelmason]

I experienced the same thing, specifically my heading tags were not showing up in the audit tools I was using.  I called Wix support and they told me since their platform is different than other services (Wordpress, etc) that some things wouldn't show up on those kind of 3rd party tools.  But they assured me it was all being seen by Google's spiders.  So you can take that for what it's worth.

You can take a look at mine for yourself.  My site is www.perfectchaosfilms.com and my H1 tag is "Austin corporate video production company."  Report tools aren't seeing it but Wix claims Google is.

[Linda-Vassily]

Actually with Screaming Frog, I can see your H1 tags [www.perfectchaosfilms.com] so it appears not to be a problem with all Wix sites.

I an able to see your different H1s, including "Austin corporate video production company" for the homepage.

[ThompsonPaul]

Easiest way to check definitively is to go to the source. Use the Fetch as Google tool in Google Search Console to have a look at what Google sees on your page.

[sportinglists]

Thanks everyone, I'll have a look at these and get back to you

[emerson_qst]

I'm curious about this idea.
On Fetch as Google, where do you look to see how many characters or words Google is reading on your page?

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Thanks!

[ThompsonPaul]

There's no automated way to use Fetch and Render for a word count, it's just a visual representation you'd have to estimate for yourself. (Not really sure there's much use to that kind of counting in most cases anyway.)

Screaming Frog does a decent job of crawling and imitating the crawler if set to imitate Googlebot with JavaScript rendering.

Paul