Instead of closing your Etsy store, why not connect it to a Wix website? I agree with you 100%. The amount of businesses who have approached me after getting a website and paying for it, then saying “it can’t be found” is depressing. How many times do you update Word or your operating system…or maintain your house? The thing is I have already paid for 12 month subsciption with Wix and it wasn’t cheap. Thanks for your comment souren. There’s pros and cons of every scenario, but yes it’s wise to stop and have a think before rushing in. I think the WIX reviews speak volumes about the service, and why people might want to reconsider! I have a client who used Wix and now wants to migrate to another platform. Re “I have been a wix user since they first released.” We don’t blame you for wanting to get in on that action! I know of wordpress/siteground? Selling a website is quite easy. When they go off the reservation and customize, they’re choosing to take on the extra time. Wix user here. All of them rank on page one of google. In 2011, I needed a website and seek for help and it costs me 45000 INR approximately $1000. Very often that happieness is only a visual happieness. If you DON'T put www after the https:// in the address search bar, customers CANNOT access your site. The problem is every bar in town is using that same picture on their website! I can design brochures. Thanks, great article. Like a pre-fab home. I use WordPress for my own circus skills website, http://www.spinsonic.uk ;). Luckily I did not touch my hosting as their incorrectly advised otherwise all my sub-domains, email setup etc would have got unmapped. Thank you for this article – i find it strange how heated many of the comments are, but as an artist who is just starting the process of starting a blog, I really appreciated your breakdown. (Wordpress Myths Busted) - Fully Charged Media, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzdZOYr1718, https://fencepencil.com/articles/build-a-website/, Client Access Information (AdWords / Analytics etc), One job a week comes through a new website = 52 x 200 = $10400 per year, Old website was live for 4 years = 4 x 10400 = $41600. Hiding complexities in website development is not necessarily a good thing. btw my wix blogs and sites score better than this page itself on tools wix says are not supported or fully compatoble with their platform (when we complain of low scores): In fact, I have done this on every single blog I found dissing wix, and 99% my wix pages outperform these pages on speed and Google scores lol, https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fullychargedmedia.com%2Fonline-presence-fundamentals%2F5-reasons-not-to-use-wix-for-your-website-a-brief-wix-review%2F. Connect your Wix store to channels your customers use every day. That’s another benefit I hear you shout! Premium plans start at a mere $4 or so per month so it’s not expensive by any means, and they go up to $24 per month. So I visited some sites I knew had been using it. It’s pretty much a crap shoot if you get a plug in that you can figure out and doesn’t mess something else up. If you think this article makes no sense and is self serving, I’m sorry it didn’t help you. So I purchased a Wix premium plan and I am trying to get an email for the domain I purchased and the cost is same as the premium plan. Would the experience be the same if I was driving it? Frankly I can’t be arsed to endure the learning curve of something like WordPress or Drupal. I inherited a Wix site and was told to overhaul it. What do you mean by Six? I have to disagree with you. I tried out Weebly too and that was worse than Wix. So I don’t argue and let them play until they’re bored and find something else to do. Not related to your comment but I’m glad I get a mix of opinions in these comments. I just spent several days laying out a website with Wix, and came at last to the blog functionality. I never implied that a WordPress website is SEO friendly…it still needs effort to make it so. With Wix, if there’s something you need your website to do that it doesn’t support tough luck. All of these websites are created using wix. A base WordPress install with a good theme will get you a long way there, as long as you keep the SEO elements in mind (even though you say SEO isn’t as important as you already have the societies’ audience). I’ve personally built Wix websites for business that compete on a national scale and achieved 1st page results for them. Ask your questions on marketing, seo, products, checkout, conversions, etc. It allows me to just create, which has led to more sales and better page ranks. I will tell you why every last one of my clients is 100% satisfied and glad this is the platform I recommended. I’m using https://tools.pingdom.com to see the file size of my webpage and I can see a breakdown of the webpage and most notably the script size. What’s your recommendation for a website builder and host? I also learned that I need to do something on that website at the end of almost every day, like blogging or editing, to make sure Google sees my website as active. Wix does have SEO features – I never said it didn’t, but many users aren’t even aware of the importance of this, and don’t tkae time to understand them, which is the premise of the article – learn about the platforms and the features that make them work, don’t just drag and drop a pretty looking site and expect it to rank. It just has over 100 items to choose from and nothing to help. You obviously don’t know how to do it so simplest is for you to say it does not make sense. I’ve not used these though so not sure how much better off you are than Wix. The other thing, many don’t stay in the business. And yes, if you use Wix or any other platform with no experience of SEO it’s going to perform worse. But if you are a photographer who wants to get found, or you are a home craft business who goes to local markets, then hope people will find you afterwards, you may well find your £130 investment doesn’t give you what you want. Darren, loved your example of opportunity cost. It’s essential and often implementing simple steps will make a huge difference to your visibility. Slight odd way of looking at serious = pound signs any way, but I guess your not the only one who see’s life by the Dollar. >>> Google translate traduira en anglais ;-) If you want to use wix for blogging I would not recommend, for … Therefore, it makes sense that Wix has gotten into the logo making game, and we're excited to give the logo maker a test drive. People say that developers are just bitter because WIX are taking away their business, but this isn’t 100% true. The only self serving part is when I’ve been in the situation (many times) where businesses have had a friend build a website, then the client comes to me to make it more visible….then they wonder why they have to spend more time and/or money. All Wix had was a tool for testing the site on other resolutions (which I didn’t even know was a problem I should be looking out for), and no answers in their (always entirely worthless) help center. The best part – An experienced Wix designer can put together a site in half the time it would take a traditional developer – and achieve similar web performance, and likely have a better looking site. WordPress only updates the base platform which leaves developers of plugins scrambling to update their plugin to work in the new environment. I like Shopify quite a lot. Wix is a very attractive initial platform as the base offering is free. thank you for your misinformation. Publish your website & start selling CBD online. Wix had some major limitations in the past and they are still far from perfect, but the sites look good, the SEO is better, and they are affordable. I am quite new to the website building game, and have been using Wix for eCommerce because it is simply SO easy.

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