Is Free Blog Hosting Really Free?

Writing by Brick Marketing on Friday, 26 of September , 2008 at 9:52 pm

There are hundreds of places where you can acquire free blog hosting. The question is, is it really free? Sure, you don’t need to open your wallet to pay for the hosting. The blogs can be quickly and easily established and posting content can quick and easy. Sounds like a real winner to me.

However, free blog hosting does come at a price. First, for a business, it doesn’t sit well to have blog with a URL that includes a hosting company. Where is your uniqueness? One minus for credibility. More importantly, what happens as your business grows and you realize that a blog closely attached to your web site is needed?

Transferring from a free blog host to a paid host with a unique URL can be done, but it does take time and any search rank earned will be lost. Is it still free?

If you are in business then you need to be a business and that means applying all the trappings of a professional business site. These do not include free blog hosting services.

If you are thinking of costs, don’t. If you have a website with a decent host then it should not cost you anymore to have a blog setup as directory of your site. The URL would look like “yoursite.com/blog/”. If you wanted a unique domain, then you will require a separate host. However, the above URL looks a lot better than one with a free host in it.

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