Why Is the Wix Domain Appearing In Google Alongside My Own Domain?
This post is a practical response to questions many of you have been sending in. Wix offers an upgrade that allows you to direct your Wix website to your own domain. Once you upgrade from a free website to premium you must direct your website to your new domain. To find out how you can connect your own domain (URL) with the Wix website builder visit our support. It may take up to 3 days before your new domain is updated by your domain registrar. Once it is updated and running, you must get it indexed and ranked. You do this using the same techniques as the ones used for your free website. But what happens to the old free website?
Many will notice that there may be a short period when both websites are indexed until slowly the free website loses its position and disappears from the search engine rankings. Until now, when a Wix user upgraded his/her website, the free domain was automatically removed from the Wix.com xml sitemap. Once the Google bot re-crawls the sitemap it removes the missing website from its listings, as it no longer has any linka pointing at it (assuming you’ve removed other links to that URL yourself).
Recently Wix has been implementing a few changes to speed this process and prevent overlaps between the two websites.
To improve and speed up the replacement process in Google’s index, Wix is now also adding a no-index tag to all free websites that have been upgraded. This means that once the Google bot visits the free version of a premium website, it will encounter this no-index tag and remove the website from the listings.
Of course, this doesn’t happen immediately. In order for the website’s listings to change, Google must crawl the website. The time frame of this process varies, and can take anywhere from a week or two to two months.
Meanwhile, there are many steps you can take to optimize your new website and get it ranked higher and better. Getting as many websites as possible to point at your website (link) is one thing. Another is submitting your website to Google directly. You can find more information on these tactics and more right inside the Promote Your Site > Google & SEO category of this blog.
Good Luck.
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Hi please assist me in speeding up the process of removing the following search engine listings, i am a premium customer and have upgraded both my websites to premium, these incorrect search engine listings are bad for business.
Hoping you consider removal of the following search engine listings :
Wix.com – Website built by ryanbisetty based on Business View This Website was built from Business View by ryanbisetty using wix.com.
http://www.wix.com/ryanbisetty/MultiDot-Media-Inc-Website-NO-TEXT – Cached
Wix.com – Exhibition built by ryanbisetty based on The Artist Lair II This Exhibition was built from The Artist Lair II by ryanbisetty using wix.com.
http://www.wix.com/ryanbisetty/DEMO-1 – Cached
Wix.com – Website built by ryanbisetty based on Business View This Website was built from Business View by ryanbisetty using wix.com.
http://www.wix.com/ryanbisetty/MDM-RYAN-BISETTY – Cached
Wix.com – Website built by ryanbisetty based on Business View This Website was built from Business View by ryanbisetty using wix.com.
January 27, 2010http://www.wix.com/ryanbisetty/demo – Cached
Hi Ryan,
Please write the Wix support team. I’m sure they would be happy to help you. support@wix.com
January 27, 2010please help why my domain or site never show on google search
or engine?
July 14, 2011When I google my site (I am a premium customer) this is what comes up: Wix.com danny long casting created by dan423 based on LONG left sm How do I change this? Why is it appearing like this it makes my company seem very unprofessional.. HELP!
August 17, 2011OMG I am having the same stress. I paid for premium because my company just opened and wanted to look professional. I am ashamed of letting people see my website because when they look it up it shows:
Wix.com PatrolTek created by dren21 based on Reg top menu 3
patrol-tek.com/ – Cached
This is stressing me out!!! Why do they do this when I am paying for premium! What? so we have to pay for premium then wait two months not to look like it? BS!!!
August 17, 2011Hi guys, we apologize for the temporary inconvenience. We’re aware of this issure and are working to resolve it. If you’d like to talk to one of our support reps please contact premium@wix.com.
August 22, 2011