He "amazes me how many people try to build a serious Web sites with free web host providers. Granted, My love, everything in life that are marked "free", but this has not always been the essence of this route will cost more in the long term.
And I'm talking not only in monetary terms. Costs may also come in the forms of time and energy. I don't know about you, but I don't like, or wasting these two things.
Now do not get me. There are occasions where the essence of the free Web sites. Suppose that simply want to practice skills in HTML and does not plan to Show the website people. Or perhaps they are minor and not yet, you can register a domain name. The only option is to choose a free host. These are two times where the building of a free page definitely makes sense and, of course, there are several other scenarios.
What I don't understand is, when people tell me they want to start a corporate website, but wish to build their site free of charge. Please wait ... s from company start-up costs? Do you know of any successful offline companies launched got charge? Do you think that the founding fathers-founders of Burger King and McDonald's went looking for space to Setup their shops?
Of course not, because they wanted people to seriously and their activities. Even if he had found the free space for the installation shop, would be the obvious was free and will have paid for itself in the long term. That payment will probably come in the form of lack of sales and eventually shutdown.
Business online is no different from offline in this regard. Are there certain benefits savings to start operations online vs. offline but to start taking shortcuts only produce disasters in the end. Web site is the foundation of the company, and if your Foundation is the image will very difficult for you to prosper.
Disadvantages of free Web sites
The area restricted web pages
Search engines often ignore them
No interactive features (chat rooms, advertise, games, online ordering, etc.)
Banners and/or pop ads on the home page and/or all pages
The address of the website long (instead of yourdomain.com) may not be free forever not guarantees of the availability of the site and longevity
Not branded e-mail addresses (you@yourdomain.com)
Poor support options (if any)
The free hosts, the lack of stability
One of the main problems that have been with web hosts free is stability. Often times they grow too big too quickly. Although they are not charging you anything for the site, they still have to pay their own monthly hosting fees.
Most of the hosts have a bandwidth limit (traffic) and if it exceeds, they charge more. This in turn causes their web hosting costs to growth and if they are inadmissible, they are forced to either shut down or start charging.
Yes you can lose a site or pay for it anyway.
And if they are forced to pay for the site, must pay whatever decide to load. Even if it is outrageous, many people pay only for the loss of their site.
Now you can say, there is always the possibility of finding another host, but which is not normally very comfortable. Think about it. When you switch to a different host, you must not only move all the files, but the Web site address changes, because it does not own the domain. The message "page not found" so all of the people you bookmarked the site will now see when you visit the homepage.
Pop Ups and banners
There is nothing that screams "amateur website of" more than flashing banners and annoying pop up windows. Granted, many users now own some kind of ad blocking software that prevents some of the pop ups from the show, but better believe a large part of the audience still wants it. Furthermore, blocking software does not always filter out everything.
What is even worse is that the topic of hoardings have no control over frequency, location, or content. Here you are trying to be as professional as possible and simple ad in Viagra on the screen, screaming at visitors to the "Buy me now!" The true professional he is not? ;)
Search engines are more stringent On You
Over time, it's getting harder and harder to achieve good search engine rankings. Even if you buy your own domain has certain work to even get listed ... much less ranking well. Yes, having a free page makes that more difficult.
The free host was given a bad name, primarily because clients often abandon their sites or using spam tactics in an attempt to increase their ratings. Free Web sites also typically be smaller and lack of quality content, so is getting ignored by search anyway.
Getting not listed in any of the major engines, it would be extremely disappointing if you plan on getting more traffic from places like Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. Many successful companies rely on this traffic free.
Limited space and features
You want to build an online store? Excuse me, but not in the site free. Want to build a chat room or forum messages? Unfortunately, you can do this either on the site free.
Are you seeing a trend yet? Working with ... free sites usually have very limited functionality really work best suited to your personal Web site, containing only text and images.
For security reasons, do not usually give you the platform that they need to create additional functionality.
In view of the above,
This is only a fraction of the issues that we are dealing with should you decide to start a company to host your web free.
I can go on and on but we hope that you see that is really worth to invest a small amount every month to get off on the right foot. Web host the average cost of less than $ 15 per month and many below $ 10.
Remember, the "free" almost always comes with a price. May not be monetary, but can also come in other forms that eventually destroy the chances for success.
Lisa Irby is the author of 2 Create a Web site--a site that encourages learning with information before diving into the process of creating a web site. http://www.2CreateAWebSite.com
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