Hi everyone and welcome back to another video.
In today's video,
we're going to be talking about Wix website builder.
And I have 14 things that everyone needs to know
before making a Wix website.
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So like I said in the intro today's video
is going to be very important
for those of you who are new to making websites
and considering using Wix website builder.
In this video, I'm going to cover 14 things
that I think every single person needs to know
before making a Wix website.
Without further ado, let's get right into the good stuff.
And as always, if you guys do like this video,
as you're watching it, I really appreciate the thumbs up.
Number one is the biggest question.
That is how does Wix work?
And it's kind of a simple answer
and a more longer answer here,
but I wanna give you guys just the overview.
Essentially what Wix website builder is,
is a premium service where you go on there
and you create a free account
and you can start building websites.
Basically you can pick from their templates,
you can start customizing them, or alternatively,
you can start with a blank template
and customize it exactly how you'd like.
There two things that make Wix website builder special are,
one, that it's an all in one,
it's both your hosting for your website
and your building for the website.
All in one place.
I'll explain this further in the video,
but just know for now that Wix website builder
is a one stop shop for your website.
The second thing that makes Wix website builder very special
is that it's very easy to use.
They use kind of their own style of a drag and drop builder.
So you don't have to have website experience
to create your own website and make it look good.
The drag and drop website builder
is probably the biggest attraction
and advantage to people using Wix website builder
to make their websites.
This brings us right into number two.
And this is since it's so easy to make websites
with Wix website builder,
will Wix replace website developers?
And this is actually such a good question.
And since Wix is making it so easy,
it makes us think that,
what's the point of paying website developers anymore?
And my answer here is that
there are still always going to be need
for website developers.
Website developers can make things custom.
Wix can get us basically having
a really good professional website.
But that tiny bit at the end, maybe up to 90%.
And that last 10%, if you need something custom made,
it can be a little bit difficult to do that on Wix yourself.
Now, Wix has this feature called Wix code or Wix developer,
where you can bring a developer in just to finish that five
to 10% of your Wix website for you.
So if you need custom code on your Wix website,
you can do the heavy lifting yourself with the drag and drop
and then bring in a website developer
to finish up that custom bit of code
on your Wix website.
Number three, this is one of the biggest questions
that I always get.
And I think that you should know, and that is,
are Wix websites free?
Well, the short answer here is yes and no.
Yes there is a free forever plan on Wix.
So when you create a free account on Wix,
you can actually make a free website forever.
They're never going to charge you.
And this will be a real functioning website.
Now to take that even further,
they don't limit you to just one free website.
At this point, you can have unlimited free websites on Wix.
Now there are a couple of catches to this.
They're going to not allow you
to connect your own custom website name.
And the second thing
is they're going to have Wix advertising
on those free sites.
But the short answer is,
yes you can have free websites with Wix.
It is 100% completely for free.
Just know that you're going to have limited features.
So that's the no part of the answer,
is if you wanna connect your own custom domain
or you want it to be all yours with no Wix advertising
or branding on it, then know it's not going to be free.
You're going to have to upgrade to a premium plan,
moving on to number four.
And this is,
is Wix website builder bad, or what are the downsides to it?
And there are a couple of downsides to Wix website builder.
One primarily is going to be the price.
As I mentioned earlier in this video,
Wix is a premium service.
And on top of that,
it's a one stop shop for building your website.
So they do the hosting,
any website building all in one place.
Now your alternatives
are kind of going to be cheaper options like WordPress
and hosting that with something like Bluehost,
where the cost of that is going to be significantly less.
So that's the major drawback to Wix is the price
that goes along with it.
It's going to be roughly $15 per month
to have a Wix website.
Now beyond the price,
another downside to Wix is going to be that the website
is going to be very good to look at,
but in some cases it can be slow.
By putting in all of these easy to she used features
and they drag and drop.
We can make the website look really good ourselves.
We don't need a website developer for this.
However, those big drag and drop elements,
they come with a lot of code.
So if you need your way website to be extremely fast,
for some people in their industry
and their specific type of site that they're building,
the actual load speed of the website is extremely important.
But for most people, the website load speed on Wix,
using their drag and drop elements is simply good enough.
You're not going to get any top 10%
of fastest loading websites by using a Wix website,
but you're going to get a very professional looking website,
affordable because you don't have to hire
a website developer and it's going to be very easy
for you to use.
So with that said,
I think those are the two notable downsides to using Wix
is the price and potential load speed of your website.
So the next big question is, which Wix plan is best?
Now you have the free forever plan
where if you're just playing with websites,
you wanna practice building them,
or if you even wanna launch one
as a completely free website,
obviously with limited features,
you can't connect your custom domain
and you will have Wix advertising and branding on it.
You can use the free forever plan.
That is actually awesome because you can practice
or have ideas of websites
and build them completely for free.
You can even launch them to be live websites.
Now, up from there, you have all of the premium plans.
So to answer this question,
I can give you a very detailed answer,
but the short story is,
I 99% of the time go with the Wix unlimited plan.
Their lowest plan is typically the combo plan,
sometimes they add in a lower plan from that.
But I recommend going with the unlimited plan,
which is one up from that,
because it's going to give you unlimited bandwidth.
Now storage and all of those factors don't matter
for most websites but the unlimited bandwidth
is very important.
On the combo plan, you are limited by bandwidth.
So the amount of people that can be on your website at once
with it loading at full speed
and being powerful enough to function properly
for all of those people at once,
is going to be limited in the combo plan.
Just for a few dollars extra per month.
You can upgrade to the unlimited plan,
which I personally recommend because it's going to give you
that unlimited bandwidth.
So you have so much more power in your website
and you can support more people coming to your website
and using it at the same time as your site starts to grow.
Now, the couple of plans that are higher than this,
I really don't recommend
unless you need a lot of storage on your site.
If you're putting videos on there and actually hosting them
on your site, there may be something that you need.
But in the vast majority of cases,
the unlimited plan for Wix is going to be the best option.
Now, one more thing to talk about
while we're talking about the plans
is you can upgrade to a business or e-commerce plan.
So if you have a store on your website
and you need a selling feature to actually collect orders
and process transactions on your website,
then you're going to need one of the business plans.
Now, if you're going with the business plan,
the lowest one on there is about $20 per month.
That is all you should need.
So those are the two plans
that I really recommend you go with.
Obviously the free plan is always going to be good,
but for most websites,
the unlimited plan is the best bang for your buck.
And then if you need an eCommerce style website
where you actually have a store
and you're collecting orders,
then the lowest level business plan
is the one that I recommend.
Moving into number six.
This is what are the good things about Wix.
And although there are a ton of good things
to talk about Wix,
the main one is obviously going to be
that it's so easy to use.
Anyone can come in without any website experience
and build your own website,
make it look really good and get it live
and listed on the internet,
just in a matter of a couple hours or a couple of days.
And you don't have to go out and hire a website developer.
Beyond the ease of use of actually building your website,
there's the hosting part of the equation.
This is another huge advantage to using Wix website builder.
You don't have to go somewhere else to a third party
to purchase hosting.
Like I said before in this video,
everything is in one place.
So your hosting and your website building is all done
through your simple one Wix account.
And you don't have to integrate your website builder on Wix
with a third party hosting.
For a lot of people who are new to making websites,
this can be a very confusing part.
For example, if you're hosting a WordPress website
with Bluehost hosting,
that can be a little bit difficult to understand
and integrate that connection.
Just know that if you're using Wix website builder,
it's very simple.
Everything's done directly through your Wix account.
Number seven. This is, is Wix SEO, good or bad.
Now, if you're new to websites,
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
And essentially what that translates to in simple English
is where your website is going to show up
on Google search results.
Now, the reason why this is such a common question,
and I think it needs to go in this video,
is because previously years ago,
Wix website builder was notoriously poor for SEO.
Your websites weren't showing up in Google
as high as something like WordPress.
However, in the last few years,
Wix has definitely taken care of this.
They brought in a feature called the Wix SEO Wiz,
and it's basically a 15 minute or so questionnaire
where you input information about the website
that you just built on Wix,
and they do all the heavy lifting for Google search results,
and they make sure that your SEO is good
and your Wix website is showing up on Google.
So, in the past, Wix SEO was not that great,
but now current day, Wix SEO is just as good as
any other website builder out there.
Number eight.
This is how many websites can you have on your Wix account
and how many websites can you have
when you purchase a premium plan?
This is such a great question.
And the answer is actually really good.
Like I said before in this video,
when you create a free account with Wix,
you can create as many free websites as you'd like.
Then once you're ready to upgrade one of those free accounts
to a premium plan where you can connect a domain,
you can take the Wix advertising off of it,
and the Wix SEO Wiz will start showing it in Google.
Then you can purchase a premium plan on that website.
But just know that when you purchase one premium plan,
that's only good for one of those free sites at a time.
Now you can always purchase another free plan
and put it on another one of your free websites.
So you can have two websites on premium plans.
In your Wix account,
you can have as many websites as you'd like,
but every time you purchase a premium plan,
you can only have that on one website at a time.
Number nine.
This is another common question
and that is will Wix host my domain?
If you have already purchased your domain
or you're coming from another website builder,
and you have your domain name,
it's through a third party,
let's say Google domains or GoDaddy,
and you wanna bring that into Wix,
can you create a free account on Wix,
start building your website and then upgrade it
to a premium plan and connect your third party domain.
The simple answer is absolutely yes.
You can do that and you'll have no issues.
That's what I personally do on Wix.
I typically buy domains when I come up with an idea
for a domain name,
I buy it through Google domains,
and then when I'm ready to make that site,
I'll start building it as a free website on Wix,
and then when I'm ready to launch that site,
I'll upgrade that website on my Wix account
to a premium plan and connect my third party domain.
Now, just so you know,
if you are going through connecting a third party domain,
you connect it the same way as you would a standard domain
through Wix, you hit connect your domain
in the settings on your Wix editor,
and then you just click, I already have a domain.
Then it'll prompt you to do a couple more steps,
and it's very simple to do.
Number 10.
This goes right off of number nine, and that is,
can you change your domain name on a Wix website?
The short answer to this is just, yes.
You can change your domain name at any time
and it's very easy to do just on the Wix editor.
Number 11.
This is a common question I get from people who are new
to making Wix websites.
And that is once I hit publish on my Wix website,
whether that's a free website or on a premium plan,
can you unpublish your Wix website?
The answer to this is yes,
you can unpublish your website at any time.
It'll simply just remove it from the internet.
So if someone goes to your domain,
it'll show that there's a website coming soon,
and it will actually show the website
that you've been working on.
To do this is simply in your Wix website dashboard.
So if you need to do that,
go to your dashboard for that specific website,
you'll see published,
just click that button and switch it to unpublished.
Just know that at any time you can republish your website,
you can go back and forth on this
as many times as you need to.
Number 12.
This is possibly the biggest question that I see
from people debating to use to build their website.
And that is what is better,
Wix website builder, or WordPress.
And my answer for this is a very simple answer to me,
but I wanna make sure that you understand it the same way.
Both Wix and WordPress are great.
Both of them are great options for,
depending on what you need.
Wix is going to be more expensive,
WordPress is going to be much cheaper,
Wix is going right to be a lot easier to use,
WordPress is going to have a bigger learning curve to it,
and you kinda need to know what you're doing.
You can do a lot of damage on a WordPress website
if you've built it
and you click the wrong button down the road.
It's not as simple as on Wix
where if you do something wrong,
you'll just edit it and you can click undo.
So that's kinda the difference.
If you have the budget and you want something easy
and you don't need a extremely fast loading website,
but you just need it to look great and get up quick,
that's what the Wix website builder is for.
Now on the other hand,
WordPress, if you want a really cheap website
that you are willing to learn,
or you already know how to use WordPress well,
you're willing to take that risk,
then I recommend going with WordPress.
Now, there are all different themes that you can purchase
or free themes for WordPress.
It is a big environment,
but like I said, and I wanna say one more time,
there is a big learning curve to it.
But some themes are made to load extremely fast.
So if you are in need of a website
that is going to load extremely fast,
you can pick from one of the themes
that are made to load fast on WordPress.
But that's kinda the comparison.
You can't go wrong with either of these.
It's more just personal preference budget and how easy
or how much you know about making websites.
So with that said,
either of those are going to work.
It's up to you, which one you like better.
Number 13.
This is, can you use Wix website builder
and having a Wix website without a domain?
And the short answer here is, yes.
When you were creating your account on Wix
and you are making free websites,
you can launch those free websites without a domain.
Wix will put their domain there.
It's wix.mysite. whatever they're going to put at the end.
You can customize the tail end of it,
but it's still going to be a Wix domain,
so you can't connect your custom one.
But just know that when you're making those free websites
on Wix, you'll be able to launch them
and actually visit their domain all without connecting
your own premium domain.
So yes, you can create Wix websites
without having your own custom domain.
You don't have to purchase anything.
Like I said before, if you are creating a Wix website,
you can do it entirely for free.
And the last one kinda goes off of that as well.
Number 14. How do you turn the Wix ads off of your website?
So there's no Wix branding on your website.
When you're using a free website
that you haven't upgraded to a premium plan,
just know that it's going to be limited by two factors.
One is that custom domain, you can't connect your own.
And second is that it's going to have Wix's ads
and Wix's branding on your website.
So it's going to say this website was made with Wix,
click here to make your own.
Now, as soon as you upgrade to a premium plan,
all of that branding goes away
and the website is entirely yours.
So that is how you use Wix without having Wix ads on it.
All right guys,
those are the 14 things that I think you should know
before making a Wix website.
Hopefully that's helpful for you.
And just know at the end of the day,
Wix website builder is a solid website builder.
I highly recommend it.
I personally use it and I wouldn't be making this video
if I didn't personally stand behind it.
So that's it.
If you guys have any questions about Wix,
feel free to let me know in the comments.
If you enjoyed this video,
I really appreciate the thumbs up
and I'll be seeing you guys all in the next video.