SEO
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Google, Listing, Ranks and More
All Wix sites and other creations are search engine friendly. (Yes, we know Flash is not search engine friendly. But Wix was designed especially to suit Google and the other search engines.)
Step By Step Guide To Improve SEO
Check out this fun
video tutorial about how to optimize your site for search engines.
Improving the chances for search engines to find your site.
The 5 Most Useful Tips to optimize your Wix sites for indexing in search engines:
1. Your First Heading / Title & Font Size
-Make sure you have a heading / title with a font size larger than 40 on your homepage.
-Include your business / website's name / words that are relevant to your site
- Title should include your website/business’s name, and be up to about 10 words long.
- Description should include relevant keywords and be about 30-35 words long.
- Add about 5-7 keywords to the Wix editor settings menu.
2. Update Your SEO Settings
Open your site in the editor &
Go to "Settings" > SEO section
AND Settings > Privacy
- Be sure to check List in search engines
3. Lots of Relevant Text
There should be at least 400 words on your Home Page and 250 words on each of your other pages. Keywords should appear 3-7 times in your text;
while both keywords texts should be organic and relevant. If you really don’t want text on your page you can add it as a small footer at the bottom of the
page for example.
Tip: Google loves loves loves Headers, add them by using the “Title” tool in the Wix editor, under “Text”.
4. Submit to Search Engines
Submit your site to a few directories -Links to submit to: Google, Yahoo, Bing. Also, Google search: 'add site'.
5. Inbound Links
Get good, quality links. Google crawls the big sites, such as Dig, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia every day, so if you add an incoming link to your
website from your Facebook account, you raise the chances that your website will be indexed fast.
Get as many incoming links as you can onto your web page! Search engines scan other websites for links, so be sure to have other sites contain
"inbound links" to your site.
It takes time for search engines to find your site.
It may take anywhere from 1-3 months for your site to appear in a Google search.
Please note: Even deleting a page won’t be immediately known by Google.
An option to improve your SEO is to connect your own domain name to your Wix site. You can do this via upgrading: Learn more about upgrading your
Why does my Wix domain still appear in search engines?
Once you upgrade your website and give it your own domain, Wix erases the free domain from its sitemap. This means, that after a while when Google
re-crawls the site it will see the change and erase the free domain from its listings.
In order to speed this process Wix now automatically adds a "no-index" tag to your Wix URL. This tells the search engine not to Index your page
to expedite the removal of unwanted free domains from the Google search. Learn more here .
Update your SEO settings in Wix.
Open your Wix site in the editor and go to Settings >SEO
And you'll find where to update the title, tags and description of your site.
In Settings > Privacy
Make sure you’ve checked the ‘List in Search Engines’ box
If you haven’t done so thus far, or wish to update, visit the editor and do so now. For more help visit: SEO Settings
Once you have changed your tags and description and checked "list in search engines" be sure to hit Save!
Number of keywords.
It is suggested to add no more than 10 keywords to the Wix editor settings menu.
Make sure to use keywords that are relevant and actually appear in your general content.
Use as many of your keywords as possible in your description, title and headers to strengthen their relevance.
Note: the whole subject of choosing keywords is an art. You can learn more via the links in related articles below.
Optimize your Images for Google Image Search.
Wix search engine friendly extends to image content, and images you add to your Wix sites are also searched by image searches such as Google
image search.
So, to further improve your SEO, especially if you are an artist, or photographer etc. you can:
1. Save your images with a name that includes tags/keywords that match your site & content
2. Upload to Wix (Wix will keep the file name and add it to the source code)
3. You're done :)
You can also update the Title and descriptions of your photos in galleries with keywords (via Manage)
What if I don’t want my Wix site to show up in search engines?
If you want to un-index your site in search engines, you can unpublish it by going to “settings”. Now choose “privacy” and make sure to uncheck "list in
search engines". Be sure to hit Save!
Please note: Just like it takes time to first index a site on a search engine, it takes the same amount of time, to un-index due to the search engines
scanning schedule.
A trick to speed up this process is to open your Wix in the editor, go to “File” and “Save As” and save it under a new name. Then be sure to go to
“Settings” and uncheck "list in search engines". Lastly, go to your “My Account” and delete the document that has been indexed that you want private.
Why isn't the description I entered into the settings showing up in the Google search?
Please make sure that the description you entered includes more than 140 characters. If it doesn't, Google might assume it does not fully describe your website. In this case it takes a different text as your description. Please increase the length of your text. After doing so, do not forget to click apply and save your work.
The change will not be apparent immediately in search results. Once Google crawls your website again it will update the new description.
I updated my website but the changes are not showing up in Google
Once you update your website (and make sure you save your file afterwards) your website needs to be crawled again by the search engine in order for the change to appear in search results.
This may take up to a couple of months. To view the last time Google crawled your website you can use the following search: cache:www.yourdomain.com. Through this window you can see how Google sees your website and the date on which it last crawled your website and created a cached image of it.
To speed the process you can submit your website directly to Google through http://www.google.com/addurl . In addition, feel free to visit our blog to read more on search engine optimization methods for your website.
Why is my bounce rate so high?
The bounce rate represents the percentage of people who enter your site and then leave after viewing only one page.
Every website has a certain bounce rate and this does not mean that people are not accessing your website. The bounce rate often reflects effectiveness of your homepage in leading people further into your site, the sources of your traffic and their relevancy etc.
Examine factors such as the keywords being used to access your website, the navigation's usability and legibility etc.
We have a blog post on the subject in our seo blog. Here is a link to the post .
More Reading:
• 7 Super Tips to Getting Google To Crawl Your Site Faster
