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Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about moving an SMB site from Wix to a self-hosted WordPress environment. He offered his opinion on this specific scenario and within this context discussed the relative merits and shortcomings of managed and self-managed WordPress for SMBs.

Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)

SMB means small and medium businesses and what those sizes mean is not anything set in stone, there are multiple definitions.

In general small businesses are those with under 100 employees. Medium size businesses are those with between 100 to 500 employees and some definitions rank medium as high as 1,000 employees.

Managed and Self-hosted WordPress Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting is a hosting environment where the web host takes care of all the technical…

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Terry Cane, COO of global SSL service domain registration and SEO hosting provider SEOHost.net (https://www.seohost.net), praised the release of a new policy released by Google in late October but noted that it was only the first step.

On October 27, 2021, Google announced that it will now remove images of minors from its search results at the request of either the minor or their guardians. This is the latest in a promised series of changes by the search engine in the interest of better protecting the privacy and mental well-being of children and teens. The process starts with filling out a form with the…

To say the last few months have been challenging for the restaurant industry is an understatement. Fortunately, as operations begin to normalize and the industry emerges from the recent pandemic, owners and business leaders will likely find themselves with more time to dedicate to strategy in order to drive traffic and awareness.

The pandemic created a surge in online ordering and carryout the industry hasn’t previously seen. Ma and Pa shops that may have once been cash only or didn’t take reservations were forced to quickly adapt to survive, and for many, that meant creating website. For restaurants and chains that already had a web presence, it was time to further integrate with Google’s ecosystem via their social media, website, menu integrations and more.

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A recent SEO study set out to discover if there was a negative impact on ranking on sites that were on shared hosting. John Mueller offered his opinion of the test results.

Research on Web Hosting and Ranking

An SEO company set out to do a long term study on whether shared hosting negatively affects rankings.

The study authors reveal they created the study from concern of “potentially harmful SEO effects” from shared hosting.:

“Concerned about the potentially harmful SEO effects that hosting a website on one of these shared hosting options could have on the websites of thousands of business owners, we decided to run a technical SEO experiment to find out what effect, if any, it had.”

The idea they were testing is if low-cost hosting attracts low quality websites that can negatively…