Sometimes in our lifes we are tested by the most trying, emotional of circumstances, and sometimes we just have what seem like countless minor obstacles thrown in our way.

One such set back, of the second nature, was the limitations of the free blogs on word press and other sites I have tried, this is not an attack on wordpress as its pretty good, but apparently wordpress.com sights allow you to only put html code into your post but not into your site as part of its design. Also its link creator blocks you from linking to paid-to-click sites, all minor drawbacks but adding up to give a lot of negatives.

So then I went to blog.co.uk, it does allow html code to be inserted but again blocks links to PTC, only allowing it this time if you pay!!! I tried some website creator site and again you have to pay to get custom html, i.e adds, only this is even more limited as you cant even link to ANY site in the free version. I do hear there are a couple of sites (tumbler cough, eh and another one I forgot) that can do what I want for free, I haven’t tried these yet so we will leave them out of our brief journey.

So I am thinking….. Great, just great I can’t get a site to do what I want to do with out paying…. And then, and then I stumble on a site called weebly that is a full website creator, allows more than one site, allows you to make money of google adsense (if you can somehow generate traffic without advertising using banners from PTC sites or even your own banners, although I am pretty sure having a link to your blog on another blog is fine!) and seems quite neat. Most importantly it allows you to insert basic html code.

So the search for a site that can do what I want it to, is currently over however the search to learn how to make my own banners,  how to interpret google ad-sense terms and a few more things besides has just started, it seems the more you think your getting ther the more something else just gets thrown in your way.  You could say its a set back, but not the end of the world. Update, having tried it out it seems that linking from a paid to click site to a blog and having links from that blog to the homepage of this site comes up as originating from the other blog. To be safe I don't directly put links all over the front page of my blog, just on a seprate page, if someone clicks the link it is because they want to come to this site! As long as the quality of traffic is good and comes from my other blog and they dont all bounce I am good to go I think.

I do believe I am safe to post this, and my adsense is not even fully set up just now anyway, so I have time to contact google ad-sense and ask them their position on my strategy. My gut says they will say “yes fine but you would be best putting links to weebly on a separate links page, which I have done".

I have also found a great site called blog.com which although supposedly only a blogging platform, is quite good as it allows drop down menus and a lot of other services.  Not as good as Weebly mind but its still impressive. I will be following this introductory weebly article up with a proper review on Weebly and in time a review on blog.com. 

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Note this is not a full review of these sites or a full comparison, although thats what it is filled and tagged under, rather it is intended to be a more social orientated post and one which should grip your attention, if I can stick to the matter in hand! Also this is a NON SPONSORED POST. I know I have a disclaimer that my blog is sponsored and that even the other post was sponsored BUT I will have to edit these things to make them more accurate to say ” certain posts may become sponsored, these will be delegated as such”

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