Saving Multiple Versions of Your Wix Website
When you conduct a search online, Google and the other search engines try to show you a variety of relevant web pages. Search engines filter through duplicate content, to provide users with pages with distinct information. This contributes to a positive search engine user experience.
However, sometimes the natural process of editing involves creating duplicate content. Say you want to update your Wix flash website, but you don’t want to save the changes on the Published version until you’re positive you like them. Instead of making changes to your original document, a way around this is to go to “File”, and click “Save As”. This creates a duplicate version of your original document. You can now experiment and make changes to your site’s content without permanently altering your earlier work.
But how will Google (and the other search engines) know which version of your website to index?
You must decide which version of your site you want indexed.
First, go into the Settings of your preferred version. Under Site Optimization, make sure the “Searchable” box is checked. If it isn’t, check it. Click OK and Save.
Then, go into the Settings of your duplicate Wix versions. Uncheck the “Searchable” box. Click ‘OK’ and Save your Wix.
What Google Sees
To see what Googlebot currently has stored in its memory of your site, type cache:yoursite.com into a search. Or, type your Wix’s URL into a search, and under the search results click on the Cached link rather than your site’s Title. You can see the date and time that your site was last crawled. If nothing comes up, your site has not yet been indexed by Google.
If you do not clarify which site you want indexed and which site you want kept private, Googlebot will interpret the most recent version of your site as duplicate content. Older links have more time to build SEO juice and are therefore favored by search engines. Googlebot will then revert to your older web document, and this is what users will see when they search for your website.
Getting Your Site Re-Indexed
Once you uncheck the “List in Search Engines” box in the site you DON’T want indexed, you won’t see the changes in a search right away. It can take Google 1-3 months to “unindex” a page. In the meantime, there are a couple of things you can do to speed up the process:
- Get good backlinks to your website
- Submit your site to Google again
Saving multiple versions of your site with Wix’s free website builder can be a smart editing tactic. Just make sure you’re in control of what can and cannot be indexed by search engines. Happy editing!
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June 21, 2010we want to have a back up on our PC not on your site.because one day we may want to transfer our information to another place and under our control.is it possible?
March 14, 2011Hello Mas,
The Wix editor needs a constant connection to our servers, it is not possible to work with it offline or save your pages to your computer.
March 15, 2011Ok, so then how does one restore this backup, when i try save the backup as the original file it say can’t over write.
September 13, 2011How about a real backup feature, what if your site goes down?
Hi Kath,
You can find more information on Wix.com >> support. Just type in “backup” and see what comes up. If that doesn’t help, you can also post a question and our support team will answer you shortly.
September 15, 2011I made a lot of changes to my back up site by mistake, need those to be on my primary how can I reverse the two. Make my back up my primary site?
January 3, 2012Please help. I have worked so hard these past months. I took a short 3 day break. When I logged onto my site. I was horribly damaged. Missing thumbnails to all my galleries. Pages are all messed up, missing my navigation menus. I am devastated. Everything was in its place & locked. What’s going on? I called a few weeks ago & this girl said save by hitting publish.Also I HAVE DELETED “t-shirt-store” Why is it still showing up? I AM NOT A T-SHIRT STORE. I never have hit that before. I am not ready. So Please help me retrieve all the hard work so I can launch my site e-commerce stores. I pray we can recover my work. PLEASE contact me ASAP. Thanks
April 7, 2012Denise
All these months speaking to customer service nobody ever mentioned backing up my site. Am I unprotected? Please tell me how to protect work from hackers. How did the search index box get checked? I never checked it. What a breech of privacy.Who & how do outsiders get access to editing my site with out my password or email address? Does wix have a protected server? Is my business safe here? Please help me understand the best way to prevent my site, artwork, and store from being violated.
April 7, 2012Hi Positive Patty,
Thanks for getting in touch. We can assure you that Wix is taking all the precautionary measures available to prevent security breaches. You can read more about it right here:
http://www.wix.com/about/privacy
About the indexing box, this option is checked as a default. It is up to you whether you want to remove this option or not.
Thanks,
April 7, 2012Wix
Hi Denise,
Please contact our support team with your username and the link, they’ll look right into it: support@wix.com
Thanks.
April 7, 2012Hello
Any luck retrieving my site or restoring it to an earlier date?
Please contact me so I am clear on what indexing or cache means? these are still foreign & i would like to proceed learning how to protect my future wix eCommerce site.
April 7, 2012thank you
Hey Positive Patty,
Please get in touch with our support team. They’ll be able to provide the most accurate information and assistance regarding tech issues: support@wix.com
Thanks!
April 9, 2012