Overview
This article covers three connected topics that often come up together: migrating your Website Studio project to Wix for hosting, understanding why your UX score may remain low after a rebrand, and syncing your updated sitemap in Google Search Console (GSC) so your changes are indexed promptly.
Step 1 — Migrating Your Website Studio Project to Wix
Website Studio is Search Atlas's built-in site builder. To host your site on Wix instead, follow these steps:
- In Search Atlas, open your Website Studio project and export or copy the content (pages, copy, images) you want to move. Download any media assets to your local machine.
- Log in to your Wix account and create a new site. Use the Wix editor to rebuild your pages, or use Wix's import tools if your content is in a supported format.
- Once your Wix site is live on its final domain, return to Search Atlas and update your project's tracked URL to reflect the new Wix domain. Go to your project settings and replace the old root URL with your new Wix domain so future audits and rank tracking point to the correct site.
- Re-run a full site audit in Search Atlas against the new domain to establish a fresh baseline for your UX score and on-page health.
Step 2 — Why Your UX Score May Stay Low After Rebranding
Rebranding — such as changing your logo, color scheme, or domain name — does not automatically improve your UX score. The UX score in Search Atlas is calculated from measurable technical and on-page signals, not visual identity. Common reasons the score stays low after a rebrand include:
- On-page issues unresolved: Missing meta titles, broken internal links, duplicate content, or unoptimized images may remain on your migrated pages.
- New pages not yet audited: Search Atlas may not have crawled the new hosted version of your site yet.
- GSC data lag: Google may not have re-crawled and re-indexed your pages since the migration, so performance signals may be outdated.
To address these issues, go to Content → Onpage Audit in Search Atlas, select your project, and click Run Audit. Review the list of flagged issues and work through them in priority order — start with missing meta titles, then broken links, then image optimization. Each issue card in the audit shows the affected URL and a recommended fix you can apply directly in your Wix editor or via your site's HTML/meta settings.
Step 3 — Syncing Your GSC Sitemap After Migration
After your site is live on its new hosting, submit your updated sitemap in Google Search Console to prompt Google to re-crawl and re-index your pages. Follow these steps:
- Find your sitemap URL. For most Wix sites, the sitemap is automatically generated at https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. Confirm this by visiting that URL in your browser — you should see an XML list of your pages.
- Log in to Google Search Console (search.google.com/search-console) and select the property that matches your domain.
- In the left-hand menu, click Sitemaps under the Index section.
- In the "Add a new sitemap" field, enter your sitemap URL (e.g., sitemap.xml) and click Submit.
- GSC will show the sitemap status. A "Success" status means Google has accepted it for crawling. Allow 24–72 hours for Google to begin re-crawling your pages.
- After Google re-crawls your site, return to Search Atlas and refresh your project's GSC data connection so the latest performance signals are reflected in your UX score and reports.
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