The short answer
Wix vs Squarespace vs WordPress comes down to maintenance and freedom. Wix and Squarespace are hosted builders: quick to start, maintained for you, and hard to leave. Self-hosted WordPress is flexible and portable but needs hosting, updates and someone to look after it. For most small businesses, what the site says matters more than the platform.
A plain site on any of the three that says what you do, where, and how to reach you will beat a beautiful one that's out of date. Pick the platform your business can actually keep current.
It's a solid choice if you want something tidy and low-maintenance and don't expect to move.
Yes, but it means rebuilding the site and copying the content across.
Any of them can rank. What's on the pages matters far more than the platform.
A website redesign checklist starts before any design: record which pages bring visitors and calls, keep their content and addresses or redirect each one, and carry over your name, address, phone and hours exactly.
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