Key Takeaways

If your goal is to attract long-term, sustainable traffic from Google, WordPress is the clear winner. WordPress designs come standard with powerful, and flexible performance options giving you full control over your SEO strategy.

While Wix, GoDaddy, and Square can work for simple starter sites, they simply can’t compete with WordPress when it comes to ranking higher, faster, and more effectively in organic search results. Take control of your SEO strategy and discover the many benefits that WordPress has to offer your business’s online presence.

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Why WordPress Websites Rank Better on Google Than GoDaddy, Wix, or Square

When it comes to building your business’s online presence, choosing the right website platform can make or break your search engine rankings. While website builders like GoDaddy, Wix, and Square offer convenience and simplicity, they often fall short in one critical area which is organic SEO performance.

If you’re serious about showing up on Google and attracting organic traffic, WordPress stands head and shoulders above the rest. Here are 7 reasons why we use WordPress sites.

1. WordPress Is Built With SEO in Mind

Unlike the aforementioned drag-and-drop builders, WordPress is a fully functional content management system designed to be search-engine friendly. From the ground up it gives you complete control over crucial SEO elements such as:

• Title Tags and Meta Descriptions
  
• Custom URL structures (permalinks)
  
• Image alt text and optimization
  
• Schema markup integration
  
• XML sitemaps

With helpful easy to use plugins like Yoast SEO or Rank Math, WordPress makes optimizing each of these key SEO elements on every page of your site effortless. Other website builders are limited in these capabilities; they will either charge you for this work or provide you with automatically generated tags and descriptions in a way that’s not effective.

2. Faster Page Speeds = Better Rankings

Site speed is a major ranking factor, and WordPress gives you the flexibility to fine-tune your site’s performance. With the option to choose lightweight themes, use caching plugins, compressing images, and selecting high-quality hosting to deliver lightning-fast load times.

Website builders on platforms like Wix, Square, and GoDaddy often run on shared, limited infrastructures that slow down your site. This is especially important as you continue to add more content or as your site traffic grows. A slow website doesn’t just frustrate users; it also hurts your Google rankings.

3. Total Control Over Mobile Optimization

Google uses mobile-first indexing, meaning your site’s mobile version is what determines how it ranks. 

With WordPress, you have full control to ensure your website is mobile-responsive, fast, and user-friendly across all devices. While Wix, Square, and GoDaddy offer mobile templates, their customization options are limited — leaving you stuck with designs that don’t always look or perform their best on every screen size.

4. Flexible Content Management for SEO Growth

WordPress began as a blogging platform — and that legacy makes it unbeatable for content-driven SEO.

Creating blog posts, landing pages, and category structures is intuitive and scalable. You can easily add SEO-friendly content, build internal links, and organize your site in ways that search engines love. In contrast, Wix and Square can make blogging feel clunky, with limited control over categories, tags, and metadata.

5. Clean, Customizable Code

Search engines prefer websites with clean, structured code. WordPress themes (especially premium or custom ones) follow modern HTML, CSS, and PHP standards that are easy for Google’s crawlers to read.

Other website builders, on the other hand, often use bloated or proprietary code, which slows down loading times and makes indexing more difficult. As a result? Your site doesn’t perform as well in organic search — no matter how good it looks.

6. Integration With Powerful SEO Tools

WordPress seamlessly integrates with professional-grade tools that help you monitor performance, identify SEO opportunities, and improve technical optimization — advantages that are much harder to achieve with website builders like Wix or GoDaddy.

• Google Analytics & Search Console
• SEMrush, Ahrefs, and Moz
• Schema Pro and Rank Math
• Caching and CDN integrations

7. WordPress Grows With Your Business

As your business grows and your SEO strategies evolve, so should your website. WordPress offers endless scalability — whether you’re adding new pages, service areas, or full eCommerce functionality with WooCommerce.

In contrast, GoDaddy, Wix, and Square can feel restrictive as your needs grow, forcing many businesses to rebuild their websites from scratch later on.

	WordPress	GoDaddy	Wix	Square
Built With Total SEO in Mind	✓	✓	✓	✓
Faster Page Speeds	✓	X	X	X
Custom Mobile Optimization	✓	X	X	X
Flexible Content Management	✓	X	X	X
Clean, Customizable Code	✓	X	X	X
Integration With Powerful SEO Tools	✓	✓	✓	X
Endless Scalability	✓	X	X	X

Guide:

✓ – Comes Standard
✓ – Paid Feature or Plan Upgrade
X – Not included or featured

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“We’re not into nickeling and diming our clients. We do full website management, hosting and security for well under $100 a month along with discounts on printing and more.”

– Marc Bethel, Partner, Production Director

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At Commonwealth Creative Marketing in Virginia Beach we have designed hundreds of websites for all types of businesses for over 15 years, we continue to set the standard for website designs that look great and perform well.

Call us today to discuss your website needs and the many benefits of switching your site to a WordPress website design.