Dotty Scott argues WordPress beats Wix, Weebly, and GoDaddy's builder because it ranks better in search, gives you full control, and costs less to own. She moved a client's site from GoDaddy to WordPress without changing anything, and search traffic jumped immediately.
Let's talk about the platforms though. I know we love building on WordPress. I love WordPress and you like WordPress. I do. I know. And there's so many entrepreneurs out there that, that try to start with Wix or Weebly or GoDaddy websites, or there's websites in Constant Contact and there's websites in MailerLite and there's web. Then there's the landing page software like ClickFunnels and, um, gosh, Keep and all these other ones that, um, just in my opinion, don't make a cohesive website that is as functional as possible. And so we want more function, more flexibility with layout and where to put stuff, and ease to update and maintain. So I don't know, what are your thoughts on platforms and stuff?
Well, the reason that I went with WordPress in the very beginning Is because I would have some clients come to me mainly from the GoDaddy Build It Tonight platform, Wix, or Weebly, those 3. And they would say, Dotty, I'm just not being found on the search engines. Can you help me? And I would take those websites and literally copy them into WordPress, like not change anything with text or any of that. And they would instantly rank higher than they were before.
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So that's why I use WordPress. But I do wanna say another huge reason, and this is something I come across quite frequently with new clients, is that on WordPress and your own hosting account, you own it. You're not at the whim of some company who is going out of business, who is changing, who, whatever, you're locked out, can't get ahold of somebody, whatever it is, you have control of your own website, which is your business. So there should never be somebody else that is in between you and your website.
