Does my website builder/host have an effect on my SEO?

[joebordersmft]

My SEO ranking has been suffering over the last year despite all my efforts. Do you think my website builder/host could negatively effect my SEO? I'm using something called jigsy. They seem really good in the sense that they are very responsive to requests for help, but I have found them to be limiting at times. 
I cant:
-edit H1 and H2 tags on individual pages...the same ones are plastered throughout the site as part of a "theme"
-Do any link cannonicalization, which Moz Pro is marking me with 282 critical issues for.
-and I've had numerous times I've had to search out HTML code to paste into my page because they're missing something.

...I may have just answered my question myself, but I'm wondering how much of a problem all of this might be for my SEO? I was looking at switching to something like squarespace recently but it looks like Jigsy has thought of that and doesn't have any way for me to transfer my site to another service..... ugh!

site:www.joeborders.com

[joebordersmft]

I've got several competitors that I know have done a fraction of the SEO work I have and they are ranking above me. Desperately trying to figure out what might be causing this. One other thing I've narrowed down is that my blog is too broad; making google think my site is about a broad range of topics rather than just counseling. Working on fixing that right now.

[Roman-Delcarmen]

hi, @joebordermtf if you are using a builder and you can't edit your H1 and H2 I'm pretty sure that it will hurt your SEO rank.

That means that you will have problems to make some on page optimization. Probably your site structure will not be too much flexible. In the other hands can you edit your sitemap or implement some scheme to your website?

[joebordersmft]

Do you think it's enough of a problem that I should switch platforms? I really don't know how I would transfer my website. I think I might have to recode a bunch of stuff.

[joebordersmft]

anybody have more insight into this one? Really trying to figure out if it would be worth the potential butt load of work to switch platforms. I know these things could be a problem...but are they a significant problem? or on par with something like giving images meta descriptions?

[joebordersmft]

...and I've just learned that maybe its a sizeable problem for me to not have access to the Yoast plugin? I've known of it, but kind of figured I could figure things out myself....but now that I think of it, I think it would really help with my blogging keywords problem.

[Christy-Correll]

Hi folks! As this is a duplicate question, we are closing this thread to additional responses. Please head on over to the original question at  https://moz.com/community/q/should-i-switch-hosts-please-help to continue this conversation, thanks!

Christy