Moving From Wix or a Facebook Page to a Real Website

Plenty of good businesses in Nepal live entirely on a Facebook page, or on a Wix site built one determined weekend. Nothing wrong with how you started. But there comes a point, usually when messages pile up unanswered or a subscription renewal stings, when you decide to migrate from Wix or a Facebook page to a real website you own. The move is less dramatic than it sounds. Here is what actually transfers, what does not, and how to do it without losing momentum.

Why a Facebook Page Stops Being Enough

A page rents attention inside someone else's building. Facebook decides who sees your posts, and organic reach has been shrinking for years. Searchers on Google looking for "trekking agency Kathmandu" or "wedding photographer Pokhara" mostly find websites, not pages. There is also the quiet risk every page owner knows: accounts get restricted or hacked, and appeals disappear into a void. Your page is a marketing channel. It was never meant to be the foundation, and it makes a shaky one.

What Moves With You, and What Stays Behind

Good news first. Your content moves: text, photos, menus, price lists, testimonials screenshotted from reviews. Your customers move, because you will point the old presence at the new site. Your Google Business Profile moves with a URL change. What stays behind: Wix templates and apps (the design gets rebuilt, usually better), Facebook followers as a captive audience (keep the page, use it to feed the site), and, importantly, any domain registered through a builder needs a proper transfer or repointing to hosting you control. That domain step is where DIY migrations most often go wrong; get it done carefully.

The Migration, Step by Step

• Inventory everything worth keeping: pages, posts, images, reviews, the exact wording customers respond to.
• Register or transfer your domain into your own name. Yours, not your builder's, not your developer's.
• Build the new site on hosting you control, while the old presence keeps running. No downtime, no gap.
• If your Wix pages had any Google presence, redirect old URLs to their new equivalents so rankings carry over.
• Switch, test every form and button, then update the website link on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and your Google profile.

What It Costs and How Long It Takes

Migrations are usually faster than fresh builds because the content already exists and has been market-tested. At WebsNP most Wix or Facebook migrations deliver in 2 to 7 days at a fixed price, with the first year of domain and NVMe hosting free, SSL, daily backups and on-page SEO included. Compare that against a Wix subscription of roughly USD 200 to 400 a year, forever, for a site you cannot take with you. The migration typically pays for itself within the first year or two, and everything after that is savings plus ownership.

Keep the Page, Change Its Job

Do not delete your Facebook page after launch; demote it. The page becomes a signpost: posts, offers and reels that all point to the website, where enquiries land in your inbox instead of a message queue, and where no algorithm stands between you and the customer. You built an audience on rented land. Migration is simply moving the house to land with your name on the deed, and bringing the audience along.