Free
Hosting
I do not
recommend free hosting. With the plague of garbage on the web many people may
not be willing to link to sites that reside on a free host. Free hosts usually
use your content to build link popularity or put some ugly banners on your
site, which ruin the page flow and make it look exceptionally unprofessional.
A commercially-oriented
website needs to show significantly greater quality for me to want to link to
it if it resides on a free host.
I have seen
some blogs that were hosted at Blogspot (Blogger’s free host) do all right, but
that exception is based on the fact that blogs are generally more personal in
nature and not so commercially driven. Even those blogs would probably be
better off if they used a more feature-rich blogging engine. Plus, if they ever
want to move their site, it is hard to consolidate the link popularity they
built up if all those links point at a Blogspot location.
If you create
a subdomain from a free site and eventually want to move your site, it may be
hard to move some of that link popularity, and aged domain trust you developed,
to the new location.
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