Weebly vs Wordpress for SEO?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi Mozzers,

Wordpress has become a pain in the butt as far as plugins slowing down site speed and snippets of codes breaking here and there. My goal is to decrease the constant maintenance that needs to be done on Wordpress. I am curious what do you guys think of Weebly as an "SEO platform" vs wordpress? I only hear good things about Wordpress for SEOs but what about Weebly?

Please share your thoughts and why one or the other is better for SEO purposes?

P.S: if you have any experience with Weebly, feel free to let me know how did that go for you and if you were satisfied with it.

Thanks!

[MattAntonino]

This is more philosophical than technical but the more control over something you have, the more chances there are for things to go wrong that you have to fix as well.

• If you don't control the hosting, hosting can't go wrong where you have to fix it.
• If you don't control the CMS, the cms can't break where you have to fix it.
• If you don't control the plugins and themes, the plugins & themes can't break where you have to fix it.

So really, this comes down to control vs. problems. If you want full control, Wordpress is the way to go. It's more flexible and will do "anything" SEO needs you to do. Weebly will have some limitations but comes with far fewer problems.

Where that scale balances out is definitely up to you. I use Wordpress because I prefer control. My sister uses something like Weebly because she doesn't know "what a PHP is."

[Image_Alive_Studios]

Here's a quick video that has some key differences:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlQa76v6OEw&feature=youtu.be

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Thanks Matt for your answer!

Let me ask you this in regards to all the elements that are needed in SEO I was wondering if these were possible when using a Weebly interface:

1. is it possible to 301 redirect a non weebly domain to a weebly domain?

2. are canonical tags available on weebly?

3. are url structures problematic? for instance I read that urls skip subdirectories such as

   www.example.com/weebly instead of www.example.com/hosting-reviews/weebly?

Thanks for letting me know!