Why Wix Web Design Edinburgh
We get many calls about whether we can build websites using Wix or, more often whether we can help with a website started with Wix which has now run into problems.
And, as ever with anything to do with websites, the answer is always Yes and No. Or maybe rather No and Yes.
Wix is great. It helps get folk set up and started on the internet, gets their new business online and takes them through the process of:
- choosing and registering a domain
- setting up email
- getting your logo on the site
- creating your first pages
- starting your online shop
- taking payments online
And within a few days, you are up and running with a nice-looking e-commerce shop or website advertising your products or services.
However, why are so many people searching for Wix Web Designers near me?
This is because they have fallen down a hole and they now require an expert to help dig them out!
You see, as much as Wix can be easy to get started, it’s natural that people want to keep making it better, and more advanced. At some point, the Wix user (business owner) runs into more advanced problems, requests or technical tasks or another we hear is that they are not getting any traffic from the search engines.
Once you want to break free from those choices you run into problems and are restricted by how Wix works.
For instance, we were phoned today by someone who had built a nice looking shop, with 3 cool products that came in 10 different colours AND 10 different styles.
The question was: can I swap the images so that as the shopper clicks on a colour the image changes AND as they click on the different styles the images should change. So the system must show different images for each colour and style.
Interesting Question: can I swap images with each product variant?
Answer Yes: see Ability to Link an Image to each Product Variant
But notice: ‘It is not possible to link to every variant when you have more than one type of product option (e.g. green and long, green and short, blue and long, blue and short).’
So, suddenly, Wix no longer does what you want.
WordPress Web Design and Ecommerce Websites Edinburgh
This is why we offer WordPress web design over Wix websites and we are not the only web design business to do this and you’ll find others saying similar things to us about Wix vs WordPress.
In this case – WordPress’ Woocommerce system does offer a plugin: Advanced Product Variation but to use that you would require a website built and hosted in WordPress.
Website Traffic (SEO)
We’ve had many clients come our way first starting with Wix and converting to WordPress in reach of more flexibility and traffic. Our SEO team have worked on Wix and found it much harder to get traffic as opposed to doing the same work on WordPress but finding much more success.
I suppose it is horses for courses and some will like one thing better than the other but we know what works for our client projects and that’s what we stick to.
If it is not broken why try to fix it, right?
However it is not just our team of SEO experts who have tried both Wix and WordPress, if you read Search Engine Journal they broke down the Pros and Cons whilst Ahrefs said ‘Wix has a bad reputation for SEO but it is better now‘. Both SEJ and Ahrefs are powerhouses in the world of search engine optimisation – so it’s worth jumping over to have a read.
Fingerprint Marketing said ‘Wix is terrible for SEO‘.
Learn more about our WordPress Edinburgh SEO services.
It’s WordPress for Wellmade Website
We’re going to stick with WordPress for our web design, e-commerce and SEO projects. We’ve had too many happy clients and success stories over the years to try other platforms that we feel are inferior to WordPress. We have dozens of clients who are actively pushing up the search engines and winning more leads, enquiries and sales daily.
Sticking to our proven methods, techniques and strategies will help them grow their businesses online using WordPress.
