Free Hosting

webman · #1 (**permalink**) 04-30-2008, 11:35 PM

I totally understand that free hosting for your website/blog can be limited(ya get what you pay for)

unprofessional(www.yourname.host.com or www.hosting.com/yourname)

unpredictable(Lisa's plight),

and even useless for making good money(Geocities or AOL).

But what kinda scared me was Lisa's article on free websites. The area where she said "search engines often ignore them" Is that regardless if you spam or not?

I once typed in a keyphrase and was astonished to find my site ranked number four(yet it's not that popular

).

The reason i'm asking because I'm a little tight on cash right now.

lisa · #2 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 08:51 AM

The main reason free sites get ignored is not completely because it's on a free provider. Let's face it... if you can get enough quality backlinks and make the site popular then I'm sure you can get traffic. The problem is most people that start off with free providers aren't serious and don't maintain their site so it never gets noticed. But I still have a gut feeling that the search engines look down on free hosts in some way.

Just my opinion. I could be wrong though.

webman · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 08:47 PM

Quote:

But I still have a gut feeling that the search engines look down on free hosts in some way.

Just my opinion. I could be wrong though.

Do you think it also has something to do with what free server you've got(example: Wordpress.com as opposed to Geocities)?

lisa · #4 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 10:31 PM

I do have a feeling they have red flags for certain domains. Definitely.

Lajocar · #5 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 08:52 AM

I agree with Lisa,

Free web hosting is not the best way to nowadays. Besides hosting is now so cheap.

Haleet · #6 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 01:49 PM

Well, not all of the free providers are that bad. I mean abiously u can't make money from a hosting from geocities or somee.com or something but sometimes they make a lot of trafic. Blogspot is my favorite for blogging and it makes a lot of traffic.

lisa · #7 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 08:28 PM

Blogger and WordPress would definitely be exceptions to the rule. (Especially since Google owns Blogger...LOL) But you still should at least have your own domain if you're going to use either one.

TechieGuy · #8 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 08:38 PM

I agree about Blogger and Wordpress. Search engines love blogs, and with a large portion of them being in one of those two platforms.

I agree that you should have your own domain name.

webman · #9 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008, 09:52 PM

Thanks for your inputs you guys...

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