Weebly is pretty awesome!

14 years ago

It looks like a cool website but if you plan on building a long term viable business go with a self hosted Wordpress.org blog I wouldn't put much stock in free hosting platforms because they control your content and can delete your blog for whatever reason.

It does have its uses but for your main money making site grab hosting I like Hostgator, and start a Wordpress.org blog that is your best bet hope that helps!

You can use Weebly for little 1 page mini sites but I wouldn't put too much work into them. Save the real work for your self hosted blog!

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condra

14 years ago

Hi entrepreneurjay,

Thanks for the reply. I do have self-hosted sites, perhaps I didn't explain myself properly.

I was talking about using weebly as part of a funnel, by creating articles and micro-sites on weebly to drive traffic to a main site.

So my question is really, do weebly sites turn up in google results?

Thanks for any replies...

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sofus

12 years ago

Originally Posted by condra

Hi entrepreneurjay,

Thanks for the reply. I do have self-hosted sites, perhaps I didn't explain myself properly.

I was talking about using weebly as part of a funnel, by creating articles and micro-sites on weebly to drive traffic to a main site.

So my question is really, do weebly sites turn up in google results?

Thanks for any replies...

Yes, Weebly does, and I have several "sites" there as part of a "funnel".
They might shut you down if you go crazy. If they do, move on;-)

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sofus

12 years ago

Originally Posted by condra

Hi entrepreneurjay,

Thanks for the reply. I do have self-hosted sites, perhaps I didn't explain myself properly.

I was talking about using weebly as part of a funnel, by creating articles and micro-sites on weebly to drive traffic to a main site.

So my question is really, do weebly sites turn up in google results?

Thanks for any replies...

I get traffic and I'm happy;-)

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satrap

12 years ago

Originally Posted by condra

Hi entrepreneurjay,

Thanks for the reply. I do have self-hosted sites, perhaps I didn't explain myself properly.

I was talking about using weebly as part of a funnel, by creating articles and micro-sites on weebly to drive traffic to a main site.

So my question is really, do weebly sites turn up in google results?

Thanks for any replies...

I personally dont think there is any priority for showing weebly pages by Google in search results. However, just like other web 2.0 properties, a weebly page can be a great source for building backlinks and if you do really work for it, you may even rank well for it.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Hi Condra,

Thanks for starting this thread.

I completely agree with you about how awesome Weebly is.

I think it's a vastly underrated host.

I've been using it very happily for over 3 years and continue to do so.

Originally Posted by condra

Is it a viable source of organic traffic from keywords?

Yes, absolutely. It will rank just as well as anything/anywhere else.

Possibly a little bit better than many, in fact.

But really, how well something ranks doesn't depend much on where it's hosted, you know? It depends - just like any other page on the web - primarily on its off-page and on-page SEO.

Originally Posted by condra

Do I need to submit the site to google, or is it automatically crawled?

I've never had to.

My Weebly sites have always been crawled automatically by Google.

If it doesn't seem to be indexed after a day or two, try putting a backlink to it somewhere where Google does crawl all the time (like this forum - you can always put it in your signature-file, and that'll get it indexed quickly enough).

Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay

It looks like a cool website but if you plan on building a long term viable business go with a self hosted Wordpress.org blog I wouldn't put much stock in free hosting platforms because they control your content and can delete your blog for whatever reason.

This is completely wrong, Jay.

Weebly isn't anything like Squidoo, HubPages or Blogger. They don't have those bizarre terms of service and the idiosyncratic and inconsistent interpretations of them. And they don't "delete your blog for whatever reason". And by the way they're not a "free hosting platform": they're a highly professional, long-established and reliable paid hosting platform whose business model is to attract longstanding customers like myself by initially allowing them two free little sites made with their own excellent built-in site-builder and attracting them as paying customers by doing so. And very successfully.

Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay

for your main money making site grab hosting I like Hostgator, and start a Wordpress.org blog

No offense meant, Jay, but clearly you're not a Weebly user, and you have some of your facts wrong, here.

Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay

Save the real work for your self hosted blog!

Weebly is "self-hosting". Obviously (from your reference to "blogs being deleted" :rolleyes

you're imagining that it's something like Squidoo and HubPages, or something of the kind, but that's completely inapplicable and inappropriate. :p

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mogulmedia

14 years ago

I agree, I rate Weebly quite high compared to similar sites like Hubpages etc...

I can't say I have got massive traffic through any of my Weebly pages but then to be honest I have not linked to them or added continuous content so that'll be my fault.

The Weebly interface is pretty cool no?

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condra 14 years ago

Yeah the interface is fantastic.

At the same time, inbound links aside, I can't see much point in using it for funneling traffic if it doesn't get organic traffic.

Squidoo on the other hand doesn't allow you to make web pages per se, but it most definitely gets organic traffic from Google, and from within the Squidoo community.

I guess what I'll have to do is write 2 duplicate articles, one on Squidoo and one on Weebly, and see which performs better.
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Louise M

14 years ago

Not to burst your bubble, but another downside...
Because I'm still learning WP, I looked into Weebly and started signing up to create a test site when I came across security certificate issues...it was unrecognized by Windows
I wouldn't want my traffic having these issues when they come onto my site, so I decided to NOT go the weebly route and stick with WP.

Something to consider...

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condra 12 years ago

Just a quick update.

I've found recently that squidoo, hub pages, and weebly don't perform very well. Blogspot, performs very well, perhaps not surprisingly, considering it is owned by Google!
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12 years ago

Originally Posted by condra

Hey guys.

I tried Weebly for the first time tonight, having heard about it here, and I have to say, it's pretty fantastic. I had my registration complete, and my main page done in about ten minutes.

Quick question, for those who use Weebly regularly.

Is it a viable source of organic traffic from keywords? Do I need to submit the site to google, or is it automatically crawled?

Thanks!

I don't use Weebly regularly.

I put up a few affiliate sites on Weebly three years ago while training some students. I bought my own domains, Weebly still hosts the content, completely free.

I no longer promote these sites, and didn't do any promotions beyond a few articles at the time I set up the sites.

But... one of the little gems is still making regular affiliate income -- a sale a month or so. Go figure.

Re "Is it a viable source of organic traffic from keywords?" Judging from my experience, it would have to be, wouldn't it? :-)

So, Weebly works. BUT -- it's just a company. Who knows how long it will be around?

It can certainly help you to get your feet wet, and make money. ASAP however, get your own domains on a host. And once you own many sites, spread the risk around more than a single hosting company.

It pays to be aware of risk, in our business. :-)

I wish you much success, kudos to you for taking action.

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Bruce NewMedia

12 years ago

The Weebly interface is very nice, agreed...however traffic-wise I wouldn't expect much. Of the free site/blog platforms I'd say Squidoo and Blogger beat it for organic traffic. At least that's been my experience.
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ProScribe

12 years ago

I have a couple of Weebly sites and they have performed fairly well traffic wise.

Like most people I prefer wordpress but Weebly have designed a system which makes building a decent website very fast and easy for a novice.

Plus it is much more customisable than Blogger

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Daniel Evans 12 years ago

I haven't found any reason to stray from Wordpress as much as I've been tempted to give Weebly a crack.

I think there's too much of the same thing out there. If something is working I see no reason to seek something else unless it offers something significantly different and advatageous.
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- DigitalMax 12 years ago
  
  I use WordPress for all my sites, but have heard good things about Weebly too. Think I may have even signed up but was distracted and forgot about it.
  
  I haven't seen too many Weebly pages show up in Google search though. Not to say a particular topic wouldn't show up at all.
  
  After reading all the positives, maybe I'll give it a shot and see how it does for sending traffic.
  
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  Excuse me if this is a slight digression from the original statement/question, but I think it is only a slight one, and a point worth raising: why do so many people imagine that "where a page is hosted" is going to affect whether you can get organic traffic to such a great extent? Surely it's fairly well-known that what determines that is mostly off-page and on-page SEO, rather than "who hosts it"? :confused:
  
  It's never occurred to me at all, when I've built any of my business's websites at Weebly, that their traffic's going to be any different there from what it would be if I'd built them within my other hosting providers (Hostgator, Heart Internet, TypePad, etc.) I make one at Weebly if I want to use Weebly's site builder for it. I make it at TypePad if I want to use TypePad's site builder for it. If I don't want to use either, then I put it at Hostgator or Heart Internet (that one's UK-based) according to the country in which I want its hosting to be situated for ranking purposes (i.e. normally I use Hostgator).
  
  Why are people so concerned about a host's ability to "send traffic"?!
  
  I don't expect any host to "send me traffic".
  
  I expect the traffic I get to depend on my off-page and on-page SEO, and on what I do, myself, to attract traffic, and on the relevance and 'weight' of the other sites which give me backlinks.
  
  But clearly many people don't?!
  
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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Louise M

Not to burst your bubble, but another downside...
Because I'm still learning WP, I looked into Weebly and started signing up to create a test site when I came across security certificate issues...it was unrecognized by Windows
I wouldn't want my traffic having these issues when they come onto my site, so I decided to NOT go the weebly route and stick with WP.

Something to consider...

I suspect the security issue was limited to the sign up process, where you were probably filling out forms located on secure server pages that begin with https. I don't think the site you make would have the same issue as they are probably not hosted on a secure server, just as Weebly's own standard http pages don't cause a security issue.

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Terry Hatfield

12 years ago

I have noticed lately that other people's Weebly articles are ranking quite well for low competition keywords. Many of these articles do not even have back links to them so I would say yes they can do nicely for LOW COMPETITION phrases.

But just because Weebly is ranking today does not mean it will be ranking in the future so I would not base my entire model around it.

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clr06160

12 years ago

it can help amongst the other thousands of backlinks you put up. it's definitely not going to make a huge difference either way.

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condra 12 years ago

For low competition phrases, I will definitely continue to use weebly as part of a funnel.
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AmandaT

12 years ago

I do use HostGator to host most of my websites, but I have signed up with Weebly. I use it to host some sites that use mostly offline advertising, but I would not hesitate to use them for another site either.

I like their site builder, I'm just more used to Wordpress at this point. I love my Weebly pages though.

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sooner918

12 years ago

With a little work they do quite well in Google,trust me! Weebly sites do not have the nifty plug-ins which the Wordpress platform allows.
I have made some nice money using Weebly...I have a little side business building/promoting very affordable web sites on Weebly for small businesses which otherwise could not afford a site at all.They seem to rank well when you make sure you have the about us,sitemap,Google Maps (if applicable) and content pages built in;and link them to a Verified Google business account (big tip here!). Then slowly build quality links over time.
I use the Pro account though,but traffic wise it does not matter;except you cannot see you sites stats with the free account.
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CPA Andrew

12 years ago

Pretty sure it's automatically crawled. I wouldn't put all my faith in relying on it for an organic source of traffic. Unless you've put a good amount of work into it.

Originally Posted by condra

Hey guys.

I tried Weebly for the first time tonight, having heard about it here, and I have to say, it's pretty fantastic. I had my registration complete, and my main page done in about ten minutes.

Quick question, for those who use Weebly regularly.

Is it a viable source of organic traffic from keywords? Do I need to submit the site to google, or is it automatically crawled?

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Franck Silvestre

12 years ago

Weebly is excellent for building your own mini-net. As for promoting, promote with the proven free traffic methods, and traffic will come in.

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plongmire

12 years ago

I am not sure if this is the case still...but what they use to do is imbeed there own keywords into all the sites, if you were to use a program to check your site and the keywords it is ranking for, you would find all the keywords they try to rank for, so it becomes hard to overcome those keywords and rank for the ones you want too...

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Matt281

12 years ago

Are there any issues with starting a free sub-domain site and then changing it to a paid domain later on if you want to brand it or something? This is my biggest concern with them, since you'd have to change your domain name so all the backlinks would be to a URL that doesn't exist anymore.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Matt281

Are there any issues with starting a free sub-domain site and then changing it to a paid domain later on if you want to brand it or something? This is my biggest concern with them, since you'd have to change your domain name so all the backlinks would be to a URL that doesn't exist anymore.

I've never used one of Weebly's sub-domains so maybe I shouldn't comment ... but you do know that you can buy ".info" domains for $1 and that they rank just as well as any other TLD extension, right? It's not exactly an expensive experiment ...

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Tony Hayes

12 years ago

There are several of these free blog sites that rank very well. As Alexa says it depends on your on page and off page SEO. You can even get free .edu wiki blogs these days.
The most important thing though is the content, regardless of how good your SEO is or where its hosted you wont make much with poor content.

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absolutelee

12 years ago

I've used Weebly for years as a way to build links back to my money pages. It works well. It's easy to use, and Google seems to like it.

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