Weebly Website Builder - Busting Myths and Complaints by Jeremy C W

Weebly is no doubt one of the better website builders out there. It's free, easy to use, newbie-friendly and can help you put together a functional website very quickly.

However, Weebly faces criticisms from time to time. Some of the ones that I have seen frequently include:

� Design is often too dull and plain
� Advertisement for Weebly at the footer of the webpage
� Upgrading to Pro costs money

I will address each of these points.

Design is often too dull and plain

It is indeed true that some of Weebly's default themes are a bit on the dull side. However, I'm a true believer that people should stick with what they are really good at, and leave the rest to other experts. In this case, Weebly is exceptional in what they do - providing solid and easy to use website building platform for all to use. The majority of their services is free, and is sufficient for all users to build a very functional website using the free tools.

There are professional template / theme designers in the market that offer professional and beautiful template designs that are compatible with Weebly. They do charge a little bit for their creative designs. But in the greater context of things, considering that users are getting Weebly's services for free, paying a little bit to really make your website stand out from the rest of the crowd is well worth it, that is if you are serious about your website.

Advertisement for Weebly at the footer of the webpage

If you have not seen the little Weebly advertisement at the footer of the free Weebly website, it says "Create a free website with Weebly." The small little advertisement is non-intrusive, and more likely than not, will not draw much attention to your website visitors.

In my view, this is a very fair price to pay for Weebly users to use their website building platform for free. Consider that you are getting everything else for free, this is a very acceptable advertisement to accept. You will not find any other website building platforms that are as generous as Weebly.

Upgrading to Pro costs money

Upgrading to Weebly Pro is approximately US$5 per month. Keep in mind that about 80% or more of the tools you need to build a very functional website is already free. So what do you get for $5 a month? You get to upload your own videos, audio, embedding documents, increasing your file size limit to 100 megabytes, and getting rid of the little Weebly advertisement at the footer. Oh and you get to jump ahead of the line if you need any support from Weebly.

I think this is a very acceptable price to pay if you need those options. If not, keep with the free Weebly program. Seriously, you already get most of the basic tools to launch a website. So in a sense, you really don't need to upgrade to Pro if you don't need those Pro tools. The value you get from using Weebly for free is immense. You will probably get more if you spend that money to purchase yourself a very nice website design.

I invite you to check out Weebly templates provided by DivTag. DivTag serves up a broad range of website templates compatible with Weebly that will really enhance your website.

http://www.WeeblyTemplate.com

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SEO and Marketing for Your Weebly Site by R Fox

Have you checked out Weebly yet? If not then maybe you should. Weebly is a great way to build a web site absolutely free with no ads. Unlike free web site programs of the past where it was burdened with pop up ads and advertisements, Weebly is 100% free and with virtually no advertising. In fact you can even optimize a Weebly site with SEO techniques you have already used. Let's look at the basics here.

First let's look at on page SEO in Weebly. This is very simple to do. First you will need to be in the web site editor of your site. Then you will need to click on the settings tab and scroll down until you see the SEO tab. Here it is folks you can add all of your meta information here including description, keywords, Footer code such as Google Analytics and finally you can add your Google verification code to add to Webmaster tools. The rest of the on page SEO is nothing different then any other site where you make your pages keyword rich and full of great content.

Now how about off page SEO for a Weebly site? Really this is the same as off page SEO of any other site but if you are new at the whole game let me give you some pointers. You need Quality backlinks. If you did not understand let me say it again. You Need some quality backlinks. Get my point? Here are some ways to get them.

1) Create compelling content that people will naturally link to.
2) Write articles related to what your site is about putting your links with anchor text in your resource box. Some good article sites are EzineArticles, Go Articles, Article Base to name a few.
3) Do some press release at prlog.org about some of your products again providing a link back to your site.
4) Comment on do follow blogs
5) Submit to related directories, and yes this does till work if the directories are quality
6) Create a well thought out Squidoo Lens.
7) Create a well though our hub at hubpages
8) Participate in related forums putting your link in your signature
9) And finally ping everything you do through ping.fm (be sure to set it up properly to bing a variety of social bookmarks that you will need to set up.)

So there you have it. These are the basics and if followed you should succeed with your new Weebly site. Remember Weebly sites are no different for the most part then any other site you have built. The only difference is that they are FREE and you don't have to pay for anything. I don't know about you but I like FREE...

Visit my new Automotive Accessories on Weebly site for an example of what this article is talking about.

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