Is Weebly.com A Scam?
72Is Weebly.com A Scam
This is only my opnion let me know how you feel. I love creating new blogs and websites. I spend alot of time reading different arcticles and blogs online and I like to share the information that I have learned. This make sites like Hubpages of Blogspot (a great site that lets you make free blogs) very appealing to me. Recently, I came across a site called Weebly.com. Weebly makes it very easy to intergrate your adsense ads to the pages you create, this was just what I was looking for. I took the time to create a webpage and add some interesting content. When I was finished I decided to put in my adsense ads, and logged into adsense.com to activate weebly. Thats when I noticed that I would only be receiving 50% of the money the ads on my Weebly page. They take half your money! I have never seen this before... I think this is a scam.. but maybe i'm wrong. What do you think?
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My point wasn't that they take their cut of the earnings.... It's that they aren't up front about it...
I just went through this. I set up the site and the got an email from Google asking permission for them to access my account. They get 50%. Unless I missed something that's not mentioned in their TOS. Deleted the account. I think they are scam.
Weebly is not a scam. They are a legitimate company that offer a valuable service, for free to most of their users. The company makes money by offering a Pro upgrade, registering domain names, and sharing AdSense revenue with users who CHOOSE to place AdSense on their websites. Unlike other free hosts, Weebly doesn't force anyone to display ads. They also allow you to place other ads besides AdSense and they do not share the revenue from those.
They are up-front about the revenue share. You can find information about it in several places on their site, including the help file that describes how to add AdSense ads to your site (http://support.weebly.com/support/index.php?pg=kb. They are currently working with Google to remove the revenue-share requirement for users who upgrade to a paid plan.
curious says:
6 months ago
I think they take half the money so that they can keep the service free for the end user. Nothing in this world is totally free my friend and these guys gotta get paid too :-)