Let's talk about Wix website builders pricing and if you even need to upgrade. Hi everyone
My name is Greg
and if you're new to this channel a lot of the content relates to Wix and I always get the question of should I keep
My Wix free website or should I upgrade it to a premium plan?
So I wanted to put together this one official video to answer all the questions about free Wix websites and premium Wix websites
So hopefully you enjoy this video
If you do use Wix feel free to subscribe because I'm always putting out free little tips about Wix that took me years to figure
Out and hopefully can save you a lot of time. All right without further ado
Let's get in the computer and get into the good stuff
Okay, so this should be a very effective way to compare the two right here
We'll do it side by side so you can just compare it and see what's better for you
Now a little side note before we get started. I do have my Wix referral code down in the description
There's no cost to it or anything
But if you do use that to make your free site or premium site down the road it gives me credit from Wix
So I really do appreciate that. So with that being said, let's start comparing these here
So the first big advantage to a free website on Wix is that it's free forever. So you have a free website forever
It's not like a one-month trial or one-year trial you have this forever, but it does come with a few drawbacks
So the first drawback to this is that you have no custom URL so you can't actually customize the website name
That's up top now granted
You can customize the tail end of this URL but it's still not the professional look that you're looking for now
The next thing is you're going to have Wix ads throughout your website now
This isn't exactly ideal for a professional-looking website
Because it's going to say create your own free website with Wix here and granted
This is fair because they're giving you a free forever website and paying for the hosting on their side
So there's not much to complain about that here
But you will have a bit of Wix advertising throughout your website
Now another big drawback here to the free one is you can't actually collect payment on site
So if you are going to collect payment, you have to link it off sites. You have to put some kind of button there
so if you're trying to sell goods you have to link it to a
PayPal button or some kind of button where it takes them to a different web site to actually collect the payment now you can take
Bookings, so someone can book on your website and then you can send them the invoice separately
But just know that you can't actually collect payment on site now one more thing
That's actually kind of good about the Wix free site. And it's also for the premium is that the mobile is really good
So you will have that Wix advertising which is going to be at the top of your mobile
But Wix generally formats for mobile extremely well, so that's a huge perk to using Wix in general
So these are kind of the features or lack of features that you're going to get with a free website from Wix
But there are a few disadvantages that kind of come as a side-effect
So the first one here is that you will not
Rank on Google and the reason for this is you don't have a custom URL
So you're going to have some crazy long Wix URL granted you can customize the talent but Google doesn't really like this so it's not
Going to prioritize your website in Google's ranking
So if you do need a website that needs to show up in Google to get traffic you might want to stick around to hear
About what the premium has to offer?
But granted you can still take the direct link that long URL they give you and you can put it in your Google Maps listing
and you can put it places where people can directly click it like your Facebook page your Instagram page and then the second thing is
a more general thing
But it doesn't look professional
Because you have for those Wix ads throughout your website saying create a free Wix website here
So you don't have that professional look and that branded look of your company now for a completely free website forever
That's actually pretty solid, but I do want to talk about the premium plans for Wix
So first things first with the premium plan and the big one here is you get a custom URL
So you can actually link up your custom URL and it'll be whatever your website is
Dot-com and what's cool about Wix is they actually give you the first year of your URL?
Completely for free and then after that it's about 15 dollars per year
Now you could technically go somewhere else to purchase your URL or the domain the website name and then link it to your Wix website
But it's kind of nice that Wix just throws in that first year of your URL so you can connect it right to your site
So after that comes the next really big one and there are no Wix ads on your website
So you have a fully professional website with no Wix branding at all?
No one will even know that you made it on Wix
so between those two right there that's worth a lot that takes your website from an amateur website to a
Professional website now another big benefit here is you actually get hosting and you get the Builder all-in-one
So if you're using one of the other website builders a lot of times, you'll see for example like WordPress, which is really common
It's about 30 percent of the web sites on the internet
You have to have experience here because you have your builder is WordPress
But then separately you have Bluehost or you have somewhere else that you're actually going to pay for the hosting so you have to know
What's going on behind the scenes and it takes a lot more experience on Wix. It's all in one place
So you pay monthly or you pay annually to save some money and your hosting you don't even have to worry about it just happens
Behind the scenes and then you just have your Builder which is drag-and-drop and super easy to use
So that's a huge perk of Wix is that it's super easy to build your website
You don't need experience and the hosting and all the complicated stuff is done for you now
The next thing is you can actually connect payment on site
so if you do need to sell goods or you need to collect someone's payment on site when they're booking an appointment or anything like
That you can do that on the Wix plans. If you need the payment on site that's a business plan or an e-commerce plan
They start at about 20 bucks a month
But if you don't need that you can just come in at one of their entry-level plans
And again, if you're just taking bookings, then you can send the invoice off-site and then the next thing is big again
The mobile is not only good but it's great because it formats really good for mobile
But the difference between good and great. Is that good?
Has those Wix ads at the top of your mobile site?
Which is not ideal and great is that there's no Wix ads at all
So your site just looks amazing and professional and it looks good on mobile formatted perfectly
Keep in mind a lot of your traffic is going to come from mobile and not just the desktop
So by using Wix and makes it very easy
You don't even have to worry about formatting it specifically for mobile
And then another cool thing here is you can actually transfer your premium plan
Which is nice because if you purchase a year of premium plan, whatever that is
You can create a different website. You can have multiple websites
You can actually transfer that premium to a different website at anytime on your account that will allow you to put a custom URL on
that website and remove the Wix ads from whichever one you want to have it on so you're not locked into one website for the
Year, you're just buying a premium plan to put on any of your websites for a whole year or monthly
Whatever you like to sign up for so with all these features here
that's actually a lot of value for what Wix charges and most of these with the exception of the payment on site come with any
of the premium plans again
If you do need the payment on site that's one of the business or e-commerce plans
But all these other things they come with any premium plan
Even the lowest one and as the advantage to having a premium plan
You will rank on Google because Google will love your custom domain. They'll see that everything is professional on your website
So you will be prioritized in Google ranking now
Another thing here is Wix offers on any of your websites Wix SEO
whiz and in the last year Wix got so good at
Ranking years ago people would complain that Wix was not good at SEO
So they took all that feedback and they ramped up their SEO capabilities
So you can rank websites from Wix on the first page of Google
so just know that the search engine optimization and actually showing up in Google is
Really good on Wix and again that's included with all these premium plans completely for free
And the last thing is it'll look professional
You don't have any of those Wix ads throughout your website your website looks
Professional and no one can even know that you made it on Wix and again
I put my Wix referral link down in the description
So if this does help you and you're going to create some kind of website Wix
I really do appreciate if you guys use that
So with that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you have any specific lingering questions
Feel free to leave them in a comment and I can either answer it or make you a whole video about it
Alright, that's all I got for you guys
I hope this was helpful and saved you some time and I'll see you in the next video