Things You Should Understand About Weebly. What do the terms and conditions tell you?
1. Weebly is in Beta
There are existing software bugs, and Weebly is not exactly well-behaved in my browser. I have submitted a ticket on some Weebly browser issues, and I will post more about that when I get an answer. Anyway, you should understand that bad things can happen when a development tool is in beta, up to and including the complete destruction of your site. Luckily, Weebly has enabled backups. I have already begun backing up all my Weebly sites, including this one.
2. Content Ownership
Weebly does not own what you put up on Weebly's site. This is a common enough practice and as long as your account is valid, you can maintain possession of the site, but Weebly is quite clear that they will revoke accounts that violate the T&C.
Weebly does not allow vulgar or obscene content.
Weebly does not allow you to use a weebly page as method of forwarding traffic to another site.
These two steps will help manage the proliferation of junky, search engine spam sites, which plague free blog hosts, something Weebly will have to stay vigilant against. This will be hard because Weebly is a great boon to commercial site development, and the difference between spammer and marketer is really just the color of the hat. Mine's blue.
No illegal or harmful content, no email spam, no using Weebly to harass anyone - another thing that they need to be particularly vigilant about.
I'll quote this one:
(l) promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, without limitation, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons or incendiary devices;
Don't offer illegal products and don't make automated use of the system. This will also discourage spammers.
But, you can monetize your site with ads!
Why am I going to the trouble of discussing the Terms and Conditions?
Because, unlike Squidoo or MySpace, the spammers don't get to run around unfettered here. If you want to make commercial sites but you don't want the unfortunate association with spammy pages that lower the credibility of your own site, then Weebly is a great direction to focus on your site development.
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I'm an SEO by trade. Search engine optimization is a goofy profession that sprung up as a set of techniques designed to make your site appear more prominently in search engines. SEO has been going on for 10 years or so, I have been practicing SEO since 2001. In the working world SEOs have to interact with business owners, programmers, web designers and marketing departments. That sounds more terrible than it is :) but nonetheless, the SEO often finds themselves in the position where they must dictate to other nore established professions. This is sometimes a problem, because there is a high business case for SEO but a much smaller awareness of their existence, their techniques and their credibility. Hi, I've been working with Weebly since Thursday. SO I AM AN EXPERT! :) but Weebly is exactly the tool I have needed to suit my life, my skills and my business - so I am throwing in on this for now - I have no idea, this thing may shut down for all I know -- I am not an insider, but I'm going to explore Weebly's resources as thoroughly as I can, because this is a great potential platform for web site construction. I've been working with Wordpress for several years, so I'm going to try and adapt my Wordpress site development techniques to this platform. Weebly is surprisingly advanced but without the broadly extended of Wordpress as of yet. However it has excellent fundamental concepts for making a good community of web sites. For instance, right now it looks like it would not interest the worst of the spammers, which is a good thing, yet I think it will be possible to make appealing, clean commercial sites, with Weebly's very appealng Ajax site development tools. |
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