Wixsite for Web 2.0 not Crawlable??

SammyGen

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Hi, thanks for reading this thread. I have a web 2.0 that is a Wixsite, and it has a great URL rating and has been indexed by Google and Ahrefs. BUT, it is not being found in Search Console or Ahrefs for the sites it links to. I viewed the source code on the page and there is no content in it even though I can clearly see it in the page! What gives!?
 
Looks like that is an inherent/deliberate design feature of Wixsites. I looked at this random Wixsite:
  • http://mfinley.wixsite.com/fluoridefreeillinois
And noticed that if you view the source, you don't actually see the text:
  • view-source:http://mfinley.wixsite.com/fluoridefreeillinois
But if you right click -> inspect element the page, you can see it.

Also, if you do a search for the page in Google, it's clear that the content can still be found by Googlebot:
  • https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmfinley.wixsite.com%2Ffluoridefreeillinois&oq=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmfinley.wixsite.com%2Ffluoridefreeillinois&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1216j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The implications being that the content is probably added dynamically on page load or something along those lines, but Googlebot can still find and index it.

If it's not showing up in Webmaster tools/Ahrefs, it could be a delay or similar.
 
If you just set it up I would give it a little while. I have never used wix nor do i know how the system works there. But if you still don't show up in a week. Then i would look in the market place here get you a programmer to rebuild the site and then move host.
 
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