Switching from Wix to Wordpress

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jim Munro: Your happiness index will rise.
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  Pim Sandra: Jim Munro what does it mean?
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  John Lee: Pim Sandra mai tung wa WP dee gwah WIX
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  Jim Munro: Pim Sandra It means that it`s not possible to properly optimise a Wix site because of the way they code it whereas, with a WordPress site, you at least have a reasonable chance.
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  Pim Sandra: Jim Munro Ohh thank you 😅🙏
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  Naveen Kapoor: WordPress works better
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  Pim Sandra: Naveen Kapoor Will I lose rankings if I change the from Wix to WordPress?
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  Naveen Kapoor: Pim Sandra yes it will effect
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  Pim Sandra: Naveen Kapoor Thank you for answering me 🙂
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  James Fuller: Pim Sandra it may affect but that doesn`t mean you will lose rankings. Your rankings will be affected mostly if you change the content and structure of your website. WordPress is searchable by search engines.
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  Pim Sandra: James Fuller Thank you! That helps me a lot 🙂
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  Pri Kruijen: You`ll see some ranking fluctuations when you change your website over, however, I`d avoid doing it this week as there`s a core Google algorithm happening.
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  Pim Sandra: Thank you so much!
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  Rishi Lakhani: Yes it matters massively! You will finally be able to do real SEO on your site :)
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  Pim Sandra: Rishi Lakhani Thank you! 🙂
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  James Fuller: WIX is not friendly on some browsers especially work browsers. WordPress has many free SEO plug ins although paid gives you more features. Some themes come with SEO built in.
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  Hanan Musafia: One important thing you need to do is to redirect all your old urls to your new WordPress urls.
  You have plugins that can help with that
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  Robyn Hewitt: Roxanol
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  Abhishek Deshpande: Pim Lot will affect.
  
  1. Your Website Performance
  2. SERP
  
  Make sure you maintain Same URL`s & Don`t Use h1, h2 more than once on Page.
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  Pim Sandra: Abhishek Deshpande Thank you 🙂
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  Justin Mager: Yes your doing a site migration. Redirecting is very important.
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  Pim Sandra: Justin Mager Sure! 🙂
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  Lisa Brown: I migrated a site from Wix to WordPress 2 1/2 weeks ago, their rankings are already improving. We did redirects for every URL on the original Wix site, added schema, in addition to brand new longer content.
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  Kwame Ofori: What about weebly?
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  Jim Munro: Others might disagree Kwame Ofori, but I think considering Wix/Weebly is a little like contemplating jumping from a Cliff/Tall Building. Both are OK until the pain begins.