Export GoDaddy Website Builder Blog to HTML

GoDaddy has a blog feature. It works. It's not great. Here's the honest breakdown.

To add a blog, open your site in the editor. Go to the Pages panel and add a new page. Select Blog as the page type. GoDaddy creates a blog listing page automatically.

Now you've got a blog page. Time to add posts. In the Pages panel, you'll see your blog with an option to Add Post. Click it.

The post editor is basic. You get a title field, content area, and featured image spot. Text formatting includes bold, italic, headers, lists. No fancy blocks, no embeds beyond what the standard editor allows.

Write your post. Add images by clicking into the content area and using the image tool. GoDaddy hosts the images, no external linking needed. Keep file sizes reasonable for loading speed.

Categories help organize content. Create them when adding posts. Visitors can filter by category on your blog page. Useful if you post about multiple topics.

The publish options: save as draft, publish immediately, or schedule for later. Scheduling works, pick a date and time, the post goes live automatically. No notification when it publishes though.

Here's where limitations hit. No native comments. Visitors can't discuss posts unless you embed a third-party tool like Disqus. And embedding requires the HTML section workaround, not elegant.

SEO per post is minimal. You get a title and description for the blog page overall, but individual posts don't have dedicated meta fields in most versions. Your post title becomes the page title. That's it.

No author profiles. No related posts widget. No reading time estimates. No table of contents for long posts. Features bloggers expect from dedicated platforms simply aren't there.

Who is this for? Small businesses posting occasional updates. 'We've moved locations.' 'New service available.' That kind of thing. Infrequent posts where features don't matter.

Who shouldn't use this? Anyone serious about content marketing. If blog posts drive your business, use WordPress, Ghost, or another dedicated platform. GoDaddy's blog is an afterthought, and it shows.

The export question: if you build up posts in GoDaddy and want to leave, there's no export. Each post would need manual recreation elsewhere. Keep that in mind before committing.

Bottom line, GoDaddy can technically do blogging. But 'can' and 'should' are different questions.