Web Design Company

[wholmes]

Hi everyone, I'm new here!

I work for a web design & marketing company Swype and I'm just wondering if anyone had any questions about the service or industry that I might be able to help with?

 

[fisicx]

Hi @wholmes and welcome to UKBF.

Why have you got such an awful website? And why the same name as a bunch of other apps and products?

 

[ctrlbrk]

Newbie: "Hi, I'm new"

Moderator: "Welcome. Your website sucks"

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[Shopclicks]

Moderator: "Welcome. Your website sucks"

A @fisicx hug

But seriously .... Wix .... really???

 

[Kerwin]

Hmm. I was imagining the website being much worse than it is. It isn't that bad at all.

Edit: This is coming from a programmer who is terrible with design, so take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[Mark T Jones]

I can guarantee that the most asked question will be along the lines of 'how much does a website cost?'.

Find a constructive and positive way to answer that, then you will be different from the pack.

The question which many won't ask, but most will be thinking is 'why are you different from the thousands of others out there?' Again, avoiding crass clichés & tech talk, this could be your differentiator.

 

[Kerwin]

My main question would be, are you a designer or a developer and designer combination? If I hire you as a designer, will you be able to do the backend programming, or will you just design the interface and get a third-party developer to create the website based on the design?

 

[antropy]

I work for a web design & marketing company Swype

I mean as others have said, why choose a name that hundreds of other companies are already using?

Paul.

 

[SportsTrophyUK]

Welcome wholmes, what makes swype different from other web design and marketing companies?

 

[BBTools]

A @fisicx hug

But seriously .... Wix .... really???

What's wrong with Wix?

People seem to hate on it, but if you have very simple needs and can find a clean template, I have no issues with it.

It is quick and easy to use.

 

[Shopclicks]

What's wrong with Wix?

People seem to hate on it, but if you have very simple needs and can find a clean template, I have no issues with it.

It's fine if you don't want to rank organically for anything other than your domain name.

 

[BBTools]

It's fine if you don't want to rank organically for anything other than your domain name.

Why is that?

 

[Shopclicks]

Why is that?

Do you have a different experience?

 

[fisicx]

People seem to hate on it, but if you have very simple needs and can find a clean template, I have no issues with it.

Depends on what you want to do with the site. Your options are very limited when compared to something like WordPress (which is free).

 

[BBTools]

Do you have a different experience?

I wasn't arguing, just interested.

I'm not an expert at all. I have built a website for a time-sensitive project on WIX and it did ok on SEO.

I have some websites now on WIX. Only one I really care about the traffic on, but I've only just started growing it - so can't really say how well it will perform.

I'm just wondering what specifically makes it bad for SEO?

 

[BBTools]

Depends on what you want to do with the site. Your options are very limited when compared to something like WordPress (which is free).

Yeah true.

I used to have my websites on WordPress, but I ended up having to pay someone every time I wanted to update how it looks or works. I've moved them to WIX now and they are so much easier to manage.

I'm happy to be proven wrong (I'm no expert at all), but I just feel that a huge percentage of websites don't need functionality beyond what WIX offers.

 

[fisicx]

I used to have my websites on WordPress, but I ended up having to pay someone every time I wanted to update how it looks or works. I've moved them to WIX now and they are so much easier to manage.

Wordpress has changed massively in the last few years. You would find it so much simpler to update and change.

 

[Shopclicks]

I'm just wondering what specifically makes it bad for SEO?

I'm not after an argument either.

I'm not going into what makes Wix bad for SEO. The Wix website claims 'Built with SEO in mind'. But the official Wix homepage doesn't pass Core Web Vitals on mobile. You might want to check your own Wix sites.

Of course the best way for you to find out how your sites perform on the SEO front, is to see where you rank for specific keywords locally and/or nationally.

 

[Fagin2021]

A word about website builders that claim to be ‘SEO ready’ or ‘Optimised for SEO’…

They might be – but what they’re talking about is Technical SEO, that is, on-page factors like Title Tags, Meta Descriptions, Image Alt Attributes and so on.

Whilst technical SEO is important, you can achieve a 100% technical SEO score with a rubbish site that ranks nowhere. It’s a small part of the story.

Think of it like a car MoT. If the car completes a checklist of pass/fail tests it’s allowed on the road. It doesn’t mean it’s a good car, better than others, or will win any races – just that it meets a minimum standard.

Personally, I think these ‘drag and drop’ website builders are a bit like painting-by-numbers – but a lot of people would disagree.

 

[BBTools]

Wordpress has changed massively in the last few years. You would find it so much simpler to update and change.

That is interesting, I'll certainly take a look - thank you.

 

[davebowra]

A word about website builders that claim to be ‘SEO ready’ or ‘Optimised for SEO’…

They might be – but what they’re talking about is Technical SEO, that is, on-page factors like Title Tags, Meta Descriptions, Image Alt Attributes and so on.

Whilst technical SEO is important, you can achieve a 100% technical SEO score with a rubbish site that ranks nowhere. It’s a small part of the story.

Think of it like a car MoT. If the car completes a checklist of pass/fail tests it’s allowed on the road. It doesn’t mean it’s a good car, better than others, or will win any races – just that it meets a minimum standard.

Personally, I think these ‘drag and drop’ website builders are a bit like painting-by-numbers – but a lot of people would disagree.

And what many people forget, or do not know, is that SEO is only part of the story. You also need to think about CRO - Conversion Rate Optimisation. You have a well ranking website gaining lots of traffic, but if the experience is a shambles then you will not turn many of those visitors into customers.