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Weebly Page Settings

Weebly Page Settings dictate the characteristics of a page

Page settings is one of the two settings of a Weebly site that defines the properties of a page. The other setting is Weebly Site Settings.

While Weebly Site Settings applies to the website as a whole, the Weebly Page settings is local and has an impact only on the individual page they are applied to. For more information about how the page settings and site settings influence the published Weebly site, please check our article about Weebly Site Settings and Page Settings.

In this article we will focus on various fields of the Weebly Page Settings, what they do and how it matters. Weebly Page Settings is very critical …

May 17, 2013 Category: SEO, Site Management No Comments

Weebly Site Settings and Page Settings

Weebly Settings are at two different locations. It is very important to understand the role they play.

In addition, knowing the influence of these settings will go a long way towards maintaining your site. In this article, we cover the two settings, Weebly Site Settings and Weebly Page Settings in detail.

1. Weebly Site Settings

The “Settings” tab that you find along with main tabs in the Weebly Site Editor defines site wide settings.

Weebly Site Settings

So, what does the Site Settings do ?

In brief, any thing you include in the settings options here applies to every page of the site. Hence these are “Site wide Settings”. This is best explained by an example.

Site wide settings for Weebly sites

Say you want to include Google Analytics tracking …

March 31, 2013 Tags: site settings
Category: Articles, SEO, Site Management 12 Comments

Incorrect Weebly Stats

Should you really care for Weebly Stats ? Are the stats right ?

In this article we address the common concerns Weebly users face.

Weebly provides two primary reports.

1. Pageviews

2. Unique Visitors

Now, the Unique Visitors reported by Weebly is rubbish. Just throw it away. Weebly has no clue what it is counting and how. For almost all sites, Weebly would show unique visitors 15% less than pageviews. Weebly’s report of Unique visitors is plain wrong.

And the next one is Pageviews. This can be correct to some extent. But Weebly counts the pageviews from robots, worms etc. Weebly does not distinguish real views from those of the bots. So, this number can’t really be trusted.

If you …

February 20, 2013 Tags: Google Analytics, Weebly Stats
Category: SEO, Site Management 4 Comments

Text Boxes With Inline Styles for Weebly

Expand your Weebly site style with simple to use inline styles.

In this tutorial, we are going to demonstrate two important applications of inline styles for Weebly. Inline styles are applied using the style tag. Their purpose is to define a style for rare occurrences.

In case of Weebly, since there are no elements available for H1 tag, Text Boxes etc, we use custom-html element and place the raw html content with inline style to achieve text boxes and H1 tags..

But first, take a quick look at the Inline Style Demo Page. And then we will proceed with showing you how you can .

Text Boxes in Weebly using inline style

Step 1: Drag-And-Drop a Custom-Html Element

Drag-and-Drop a …

February 10, 2013 Tags: H1 SEO, text box
Category: Custom HTML, SEO 22 Comments

Keyword Density, The Curse Of SEO

What is the right Keyword Density ? Some experts suggest 2% while some others suggest 5 or 7%. And there are some who argue that it does not matter any more. Why so much ambiguity ? Let us step back and take a look at it from a wider perspective.…

May 31, 2012 Tags: Keyword Density
Category: SEO, Site Management 2 Comments

Custom 404 Page in Weebly

Custom 404 page saves you from broken links

Almost every site is going to face broken links at some point or the other.

Sooner or later, your site is prone to suffer from broken links occasionally. It could be because you deleted a page and forgot to include a 301 Redirect. Or, it could be due to a typo from a site linking to your page.

In any case, a standard “Page Not Found” error message will result in a visitor leaving your site. But, if you setup a custom 404 page in Weebly, you get a chance to present alternate content to your visitors. And your visitors get to pick a page close to what they are looking …

May 12, 2012 Tags: 404 page, seo tips
Category: Articles, SEO, Site Management 16 Comments

Benefit of Weebly 301 Redirects

A typical 301 Redirect’s job is to take a visitor from an old URL (web address) to a new URL.

Page names change. URLs change. 301 redirect is a way of automatically forwarding a user from old page to the new page. There are several instances where a 301 Redirect is necessary for a site.

Weebly now provides option to configure 301 Redirects for web sites. In this topic, we will show you how you can put the 301 Redirects to proper use for your situation.

It greatly helps the site administrators with retaining the critical audience. Visitors could have bookmarked your old site address. Search engines may be showing your old link. Backlinks from other sites pointing to your site …

April 10, 2012 Tags: SEO, seo tips, Weebly 301 Redirect
Category: Articles, SEO, Site Management 18 Comments

Weebly SEO Tip 23: Watch What Is Above The Fold

Pay close attention to what is above the fold on your home page.

The first portion of your home page is the most significant part of a website. This is what your visitors see as soon as they come to your home page. It is the place for your Call-For-Action. Hence, Search Engines value it higher than other content.

The content above the fold plays an important role in determining the keywords for your site. The links you place in the first 200 words of your home page are seen as the core of your site. Watch what you place in the text for links. Here is an example:

If you need to bring attention to your latest promotion, here are …

December 18, 2011 Tags: seo tips, splash, weebly seo
Category: SEO 3 Comments

Weebly Site Not Shown In Google ? Here Is What You Need To Do

Built a great site with Weebly ? But wondering why your site is not shown in Google Search Results ? Here are the three things you must know (and do) for your site to get listed and seen in Google Search Results

Submit your site to Google and other search engines.
Monitor if your site is crawled and indexed by Google.
Optimize your Weebly site for search engines

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December 2, 2011 Tags: Google, SEO, submit, verify, weebly
Category: SEO, Site Management No Comments

Weebly SEO Tip 22: Track Your Site’s Rank & Click Through Ratio

Google Webmaster Tools gives you a snap shot of how your website is performing in search results. Here is how you can track your rank.

Once you have verified your site with Google, Webmaster Tools gives you all the necessary information to track how well your site is doing relative to the rest of the world.

After you submit your sitemap, periodically check reports from webmaster tools. In this article, we will walk you through the process of interpreting the data and the steps you need to take to improve your website rank. We take freeweeblythemes.weebly.com as an example to illustrate it.

Note that it takes multiple rounds of adjustments before you get to a satisfactory stage. Especially if …

November 28, 2011 Tags: alexa, seo tips, serp, site rank, webmaster, weebly seo
Category: Articles, SEO 2 Comments

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