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Weebly is DEAD! on October 2015

by SmartTim
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You have a free plan. Please upgrade to get search engine indexing.

Now, you need to pay to index your webpages on Google. No more free do-follow backlinks on Weebly?
#2015 #dead #october #weebly
  • Profile picture of the author seotifycom
    Well, It's their loss.
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  • Profile picture of the author danparks
    I'm not real big on web 2.0, but I do have a few weebly sites from back in the day. Their pages are all indexed in Google. Any links on their pages do not have rel="nofollow" added to them. I logged in to one account and I don't see the "please upgrade" message anywhere.

    Where did you encounter the "upgrade" message?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by danparks View Post

      I'm not real big on web 2.0, but I do have a few weebly sites from back in the day. Their pages are all indexed in Google. Any links on their pages do not have rel="nofollow" added to them. I logged in to one account and I don't see the "please upgrade" message anywhere.

      Where did you encounter the "upgrade" message?
      On Mars.

      Weebly has nothing to do with getting your webpages indexed on the web.
      For free or otherwise.

      No matter what weebly does or does not do, it should never affect anyone
      with a real business online.

      I propose that the lot of you do not have a real businesses. You're not a
      lawyer, doctor, or plumber, but you play one online.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author danparks
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        On Mars.

        Weebly has nothing to do with getting your webpages indexed on the web.
        For free or otherwise.

        No matter what weebly does or does not do, it should never affect anyone
        with a real business online.

        I propose that the lot of you do not have a real businesses. You're not a
        lawyer, doctor, or plumber, but you play one online.

        Paul
        Doesn't really address the OP. Web 2.0s do change their terms of service from time to time. I could certainly see a Web 2.0 switching to automatically inject a rel="nofollow" in links on their subdomain sites. OP must have seen some kind of message. I'd like to see it too. No big deal.

        I don't use Web 2.0s to index pages on *other* domains (and that's not what the OP said, anyway). Some people may have a weebly site with some PR (one of mine had a PR2 home page as of the last PR toolbar update). I'm all for bashing stupid threads. This thread may not be vitally important, but it doesn't seem like a ridiculous question.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          Originally Posted by danparks View Post

          Doesn't really address the OP.
          It does answer the OP's question.

          It's like asking, "Why are the freeways so crowded in So Cal?
          Do they expect us to take the bus?"

          Take the bus, or don't take the bus. Drive, or don't drive.

          Your fun, employment, enjoyment, or outlook on life, does not
          get changed due to driving, walking, taking the bus, bicycle...

          Take a cab or limo.

          What weebly does, should not....SHOULD NOT affect anything of yours.

          Paul
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          • Profile picture of the author danparks
            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            It does answer the OP's question.

            What weebly does, should not....SHOULD NOT affect anything of yours.

            Paul
            It sounded to me like OP was saying that Weebly was blocking Weebly pages from getting indexed. That has nothing to do with "affecting anything of yours." I don't think OP is saying that somehow Weebly is preventing *other* web properties of yours from getting indexed.

            I said initially I'm not big on web 2.0s in general. But if I can get a free backlink from a page that has some link juice (PR), I'll take it. Wouldn't you? I've got a few Weebly pages with a little link juice, so yeah, I'll use it. I wasn't claiming a person should build a PBN on free properties. I think you know that.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jason Stewart
            Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

            It does answer the OP's question.

            It's like asking, "Why are the freeways so crowded in So Cal?
            Do they expect us to take the bus?"

            Take the bus, or don't take the bus. Drive, or don't drive.

            Your fun, employment, enjoyment, or outlook on life, does not
            get changed due to driving, walking, taking the bus, bicycle...

            Take a cab or limo.

            What weebly does, should not....SHOULD NOT affect anything of yours.

            Paul
            It would affect those that rely on a web 2.0 backlinking strategy that includes weebly. But if the person has a good, diverse backlink profile it'll only affect them slightly.
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  • Profile picture of the author arpitagarwal82
    Weebly is blocking search engines by robots.txt
    But that can be overcome by building aggressive Tier 2 links (pointing to weebly blog). I have actually been able to get new weebly blogs indexed by google.
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    • Profile picture of the author danparks
      Originally Posted by arpitagarwal82 View Post

      Weebly is blocking search engines by robots.txt
      But that can be overcome by building aggressive Tier 2 links (pointing to weebly blog). I have actually been able to get new weebly blogs indexed by google.
      I go to Google and enter site:xxxxxxx.weebly.com, where xxxxxxxx is my Weebly subdomain. Google lists all the pages on that site. So no, I don't believe Weebly blocks Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    I don't believe that OP reported this accurately. A site that can't be found isn't even worth it if you can host it for free, and I'm sure Weebly realizes this as well. The free sites are already on a sub domain so it's free advertising for them. Also, this WF thread is the only place you can really find when you search for this in Google.

    Anyone have a Weebly sub domain? What does the robots.txt say?

    Added: I went and created a new site. There's no such limitation on it. This thread seems to be totally bogus. There's even a panel for SEO settings which would be totally out of place if they would prevent indexing, and in that panel there's an option to add site-wide disallow to robots.txt.

    OP, please explain your claim.
    Signature
    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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