Making a switch from Godaddy to Wix

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I have hardly any knowledge on how to build a website. I used Godaddy's Website Tonight program. I have built the whole site but I am not happy with the template, or any of the other available ones. I started copying and pasting everything to Wix and I am mostly happy with their site builder. Here are my questions:

1. If I cancel Godaddy and host with Wix, how will my Wix site come up when clicked on instead of the Godday site.

2. Will I still keep all the backlinks to my domain or do I have to start over.

3. Will my ranking hurt from switching site builders?
#godaddy #making #switch #wix
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    You seem to be completely confused...

    1. Godaddy is a (domain) registrar and nobody should ever host their website with the same company as their registrar. As a registrar - we will not comment on their preformance... but as a host company, they are not good.

    1a. Using their "sitebuilder" gizmo just adds more pain.

    2. You should have a company (e.g. Godaddy) as registrar; and another normal company as your host (where you store the files that make up the site at your domain).

    3. Moving from one crap solution (Website tonight)... to another crap solution (Wix) is not a wise move: two bad solutions together won't make one good solution.

    4. If you have webhosting with Goddady - you can (and should) cancel that.

    5. But do not cancel your domain registration!!! <-- one of the many reasons to not keep those together at the same company!

    6. I don't think you can "switch" from GD to Wix. Things ain't work like that

    Here is what you should do:
    - keep the registration as is;
    - get a decent host company (there are available for $4-5/month);
    - build your site there
    - be careful with "backlinks" - nowadays they hurt more than they help... especially, when done by ignorants
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    • Profile picture of the author brittneyj
      Why is a "sitebuilder" gizmo bad. I can't figure out wordpress so I am looking for something easier like a sitebuilder. Do you know of any sitebuilders that are good?
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  • Profile picture of the author gcampton
    Definitely Check out Artisteer (http://artisteer.com/) It's program software that installs to your computer. You create a website in a WYSIWYG editor, it has pretty much everything you can dream of, and is one of the easiest and best design tools.

    I personally don't use the code, but I do use it to design because it's great at that.
    There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the code so use it!


    Switching from GD to Wix, nobody will see the GD site anymore, because you will have to change the DNS (domain name settings) to point to your new website hosted by wix.

    I also advice against using wix or GD, I think you should get a Hostgator hosting account, keep the domain registrar as GD, use Artisteer to do your website, and learn how to upload it via FTP.
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    • Profile picture of the author brittneyj
      I will check out Artisteer. But, what is wrong with site builders like Godaddy and Wix?
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    There is nothing you should figure out about WordPress - if you just want to publish content. (And, honestly, at the stage where you are in "web design" you should even think to try more than publishing content! Sorry, no offense intended...).

    If you want to be able to really design your own sites (not just automatically drag and drop stuff that you don't even understand) then WordPress is just as bad as Wix or any "easy-peasy-beautiful-cover...site" :p

    And no, there are no "good" sitebuilders.

    P.S. And, please, don't get lost in irrelevant details: the real question (for you) is not 'which sitebuilder is good' - but something along the lines 'please, help me understand the difference between registrar, host and my site'.
    :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author brittneyj
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      There is nothing you should figure out about WordPress - if you just want to publish content. (And, honestly, at the stage where you are in "web design" you should even think to try more than publishing content! Sorry, no offense intended...).

      If you want to be able to really design your own sites (not just automatically drag and drop stuff that you don't even understand) then WordPress is just as bad as Wix or any "easy-peasy-beautiful-cover...site" :p

      And no, there are no "good" sitebuilders.

      P.S. And, please, don't get lost in irrelevant details: the real question (for you) is not 'which sitebuilder is good' - but something along the lines 'please, help me understand the difference between registrar, host and my site'.
      :rolleyes:
      Please help me understand the difference between registrar, host and my site.

      I am a stay-at-home mom and love learning about this stuff when I have some free time. I have taught myself a lot but am still very confused about certain things. It would be helpful if you could answer the above question for me.
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by brittneyj View Post

        Please help me understand the difference between registrar, host and my site.
        I thought I did in my first reply.

        You "buy" (actually, rent) a domain name for a yearly fee -
        example.com is the domain.

        Any company that is selling and keeping track of that name being bought/used by you... is called a "domain registrar" or simply registrar.
        Godaddy is one of the best known such company. I use namecheap.com instead.

        Then, after buying your domain, you need a place where it should live (just like we need a house or an apartment). Companies offering such facilities - practically tons of huge computers - are called hosts or hoster or hosting companies.
        My very first host was Linksky.com - excellent service and not expensive.

        Next, you build your site. A site is just a pile of HTML files and some images... and maybe a stylesheet (.css file).

        ====================
        CMS (=Content MAnagement Systems) like Joomla, and WordPress and sNews eliminate the need to build zillion HTML files on your computer + upload to the host etc...
        These systems take care of everything, including the design because they are already built with pre-made templates. You just type your content - exactly as you talk back here.

        Which part is that you don't understand?

        p.s. If interested in more help and if you are really into learning, contact me in private: I may offer to you a coming course of mine (you could be the guinea pig to test it, LOL)
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    • Profile picture of the author OneOffCaz
      Hi Please don't be so patronising. This lady needed help and advice not to be made to feel crap about asking. Not everybody knows the in's and outs of dreamweaver or creative web design. There are so many various business's around these days that sometimes the quick and easy templates are all that people need to advertise their site and business. So please do answer the simple question 'what is so wrong with wix or go daddy' apart from being run of the mill designs? I also am new to running a business and it's good to know the difference between things. I'd really like to ask does everybody need to pay for the domain name and what would happen if you use the free sites like wix. Does that mean somebody else could take your business name if you don't pay yearly for it? I'm relatively good at web design but need something quick and easy based on my circumstances so I too was thinking of go daddy or wix. Please advise why I shouldn't go for these other than the set templates (which they actually have quite a great selection available on wix).

      Kind Regards,

      Caroline
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  • Profile picture of the author gordonmcb
    It is my understanding that Wix builds mostly Flash websites which, according to my Adobe instructor, is not an SEO-friendly format.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      They do have an HTML5 website builder now. It's an improvement over building websites in flash, but it doesn't beat building a website the right way, without the bloat that comes with using a website builder.
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