Do DIY website building platforms have good SEO?

[fuzzybabybunny]

I'm curious how well things like SquareSpace, Wix, or Wordpress do with SEO. I want to make a simple landing page for a friend's business, but it's not going to contain that much content - just a simple single-page scrolling website with About Us, Services, and Contact sections. Would using a DIY website builder and host automatically optimise the SEO part for me?

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[purbeast0]

Doubtful. When's the last time you did a google search and got a result on the first page that linked to any of those sites? I personally can't remember it ever happening. It would be best to spend $20 on a domain + hosting for a year and just upload a static HTML page.

 

[KB]

Yes, they will do some of the technical aspects like SEO friendly URLs, mobile friendly pages and index friendly websites. But No, they will not do the hardest part, which is to increase your page rank. This is often done by creating cross site links to your site all around the web and is something you need to do yourself.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Wordpress seems to work alright. When I search for the kinds of things I would expect people to search for when looking for my website, I usually find my website.

It's just a Namecheap EasyWP instance.

 

[TechYoda]

If you add YoastSEO plagin to your WP website you'll be fine.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Most of those use tons of javascript and really trashy code. Best SEO is achieved by hand coding as there's way less garbage for the search engines to parse through. Ideally make sure the site works even with javascript turned off. Today's web design trend is to grossly overuse JS. use it for some interactive stuff, but don't make the entire site rely on it to even be usable.