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Is Wix the problem

by Carol63
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Hi there my site is Bass Rock Framing & Gallery

I am doing ok on google searches for my site because I have a good facebook page but if you go to google and search for a picture framer in Dunbar or East Lothian my site is not showing in the results.

Is this because its a wix site. Is there any advice you can give me. I have got a sitemap with google.
#problem #wix
  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Wix is just another CMS. I'm sure it can handle the few elements that are required. Even though the theme uses weird Ajax tricks it seems to be indexed.

    However, the HTML is certainly not very good. It's very heavy for what it is.

    On the front page you've got three h1 elements, and one contains this: "Title. BDouble click me." On the blog posts there's no actual post title, but only the same three h1 elements.

    Visually the site is all over the place which may drive visitors away. It's hard to say if this really affects your search engine results.

    Your backlinks seem to be good, but there's not that many of them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Carol63
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      Wix is just another CMS. I'm sure it can handle the few elements that are required. Even though the theme uses weird Ajax tricks it seems to be indexed.

      However, the HTML is certainly not very good. It's very heavy for what it is.

      On the front page you've got three h1 elements, and one contains this: "Title. BDouble click me." On the blog posts there's no actual post title, but only the same three h1 elements.

      Visually the site is all over the place which may drive visitors away. It's hard to say if this really affects your search engine results.

      Your backlinks seem to be good, but there's not that many of them.
      Could you recommend how I go about fixing these issues. My budget is low and it would be great if I could someone in this forum that could fix it. Would you take it to fiverr?
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      • Profile picture of the author Carol63
        oh apologies I also meant to say thank you so much for such an indepth and helpful response
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by Carol63 View Post

        Could you recommend how I go about fixing these issues. My budget is low and it would be great if I could someone in this forum that could fix it. Would you take it to fiverr?
        Sorry, I have no idea how to do that on Wix.

        I'm building sites with WordPress.org (the CSM) and that can definitely be low budget (as in you only pay for hosting if you want to). While there's a lot of themes you can use, rebuilding a site might not be worth it.
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      • Profile picture of the author msabihj
        Originally Posted by Carol63 View Post

        Could you recommend how I go about fixing these issues. My budget is low and it would be great if I could someone in this forum that could fix it. Would you take it to fiverr?
        Here is how to do it.

        Stop using Wix and move to a better CMS. I know how hard it is to create a visually pleasing website with wix site builder. You have a few templates to choose from and then there is this # in the URLs.

        It is a better time to move to wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author hrishivardhan
    I am sorry but, the site is not optimized well. The design is ok but the fonts are align properly. You have not any tags in "search by tags". The URLs of the site is also not SEO friendly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Carol63
      Im very grateful for your advice but it beyond my ability, could you recommend a next step for me
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    First of all, how much money are you spending on the Wix site?

    Regular web hosting cost about $10 (USD) per month.

    Second, those URLs aren't optimized. I've never seen anyone use hashtags like that & index multiple pages. Kind of funky looking for a URL.

    Example:
    • hxxp://www.bassrockgallery.com/#!Tips-Advice-Dunbar-East-Lothian-Picture-Framing/cn16/554755ed0cf273133512885e

    You have 7 pages indexed:
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    • Profile picture of the author fjgust0
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      First of all, how much money are you spending on the Wix site?

      Regular web hosting cost about $10 (USD) per month.

      Second, those URLs aren't optimized. I've never seen anyone use hashtags like that & index multiple pages. Kind of funky looking for a URL.

      Example:
      • hxxp://www.bassrockgallery.com/#!Tips-Advice-Dunbar-East-Lothian-Picture-Framing/cn16/554755ed0cf273133512885e

      You have 7 pages indexed:

      yukon, obviously you like most of the members in here have not used Wix.
      There is no other way around "/#" in Wix. I have a website on Wix as well, and struggle to understand why my site does not rank very well either. Here is how google sees the actual URL - "http://www.bassrockgallery.com/?_escaped_fragment_=" it is without hash tag. I am little bit surprised that so called experts on this site didn't even look at source code
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by fjgust0 View Post

        yukon, obviously you like most of the members in here have not used Wix.
        There is no other way around "/#" in Wix. I have a website on Wix as well, and struggle to understand why my site does not rank very well either. Here is how google sees the actual URL - "http://www.bassrockgallery.com/?_escaped_fragment_=" it is without hash tag. I am little bit surprised that so called experts on this site didn't even look at source code
        That URL alone is a good enough reason for me to never want to use Wix.

        Get a real host where you have full control over the URL & site structure.
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      • Profile picture of the author msabihj
        Originally Posted by fjgust0 View Post

        yukon, obviously you like most of the members in here have not used Wix.
        There is no other way around "/#" in Wix. I have a website on Wix as well, and struggle to understand why my site does not rank very well either. Here is how google sees the actual URL - "http://www.bassrockgallery.com/?_escaped_fragment_=" it is without hash tag. I am little bit surprised that so called experts on this site didn't even look at source code
        And this was the reason why I stopped using Wix back in 2012. Interestingly, back then, these guys (eXperts at Wix) used to say "we are fixing the issue, it is a bug". I waited a month, and then left.

        Its strange they still have the same bug
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