Journal
What we have learned moving sites.
Written for site owners, not for search engines. Everything we know about leaving Wix with your rankings intact, free, ungated, and updated as we learn more.
July 28, 2026
Platforms
The Hidden Costs of Staying on Wix
Beyond the subscription: app fee creep, the SEO ceiling, the compounding exit cost, and the price of decisions you can no longer make.
4 min read
July 21, 2026
SEO
Google Search Console After a Migration: What to Watch for Six Weeks
The exact Search Console reports to check after a website migration, what normal looks like in each, and the signals that mean something needs fixing today.
4 min read
July 14, 2026
Guides
Redesign, Migration, or Both? Deciding What You Actually Need
The difference between changing how your site looks and changing where it lives, why doing both at once multiplies risk, and how to sequence them safely.
3 min read
July 7, 2026
Migration
How Long Does a Website Migration Actually Take?
Honest timelines for moving a site off Wix, what a realistic schedule looks like, what stretches it, and why the overnight offers cut the step that protects you.
4 min read
June 30, 2026
SEO
The SEO Checklist to Run Before You Migrate Anything
Eight things to capture and verify before a website migration starts, because the data you fail to record now is the ranking you cannot recover later.
3 min read
June 23, 2026
E-commerce
How to Move Your Products from Wix to Shopify (Variants and All)
The practical mechanics of getting a Wix Stores catalog into Shopify: CSV mapping, variant limits, images, inventory, and the data that will not survive.
4 min read
June 9, 2026
Platforms
Wix vs WordPress: The True Cost of Ownership Over Three Years
A line-by-line comparison of what Wix and WordPress actually cost a small business over three years, including the exit cost nobody prices in.
4 min read
June 2, 2026
Platforms
Can You Export a Wix Website? An Honest Answer
Exactly what Wix lets you take with you, what it does not, and what that means if you are planning to move to WordPress or Shopify.
4 min read
May 26, 2026
SEO
301 Redirects Explained for People Who Do Not Write Code
What a 301 redirect is, why it decides whether a migration keeps its search traffic, and the five mistakes that quietly throw rankings away.
4 min read
May 19, 2026
SEO
What Actually Happens to Your Rankings During a Website Migration
A week-by-week account of how Google reprocesses a migrated site, what normal fluctuation looks like, and how to tell it apart from real damage.
4 min read
May 12, 2026
Migration
How to Migrate from Wix to WordPress Without Losing Your SEO
A step-by-step account of what a safe Wix to WordPress migration actually involves. URL inventory, redirect mapping, metadata transfer and post-launch verification.
4 min read