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10 Reasons Why You Should Never Use a Free For All Web Hosting Service© by Dagmar Rakos ConOpMark.com Tempted by the "Free For All Hosting Services offers?" One of the biggest mistakes any Business Owner/Internet Entrepreneur can do is to go for one of the thousands of "Free Online Hosting Services". It creates an instant bad "Cheapy" impression: Why should I use this company services when they don't even have enough money to spend on a regular Web Host? Besides, they are Never "free" - you have to put with a lot of Advertising on your pages which not only disturbs your hard earned visitors, but also can take them away before they even had the experience fully explore your site. Do not get fooled by all the "free" web hosting services out there on the Net. You will run into many problems right away: # 1. Your potential customers will see that you have a "free" URL or "free" website, and you will lose your Credibility instanteneously. Why should they believe in your product or service if you cannot afford the few bucks a month to get a professional web host? They won't take you seriously if you can't even afford a small web hosting fee! # 2. You won't be able to submit your site to any directory and majority of the big important Search Engines. f.e. Yahoo only accepts submission of your Index/home page so your site will Never appear in Yahoo directory! And as you know, Yahoo is one of the biggest search tool on the Net so you can imagine how many customers you are losing! # 3. Even if you will get some traffic after while everyone gets you know at that address. When you become more popular and get busy you will lose a lot of customers when you will have change your address in order to meet your company expanding needs. Many people put links to your "free" address which will became de-funct if you will have to change your URL. (do you think you can find All the people who put their links to your site so you can inform them of your change? I don't think so...) # 4. You should also realize that "Free" is never completely "free". You will have to put up with different regulations and requirements in order to get free webhosting from these companies. Most of them will require that you have to put up their banner at the top or bottom of your pages. So you basically provide the free advertising space they can sell and you will provide Free visitors for them. And you have to work so hard to get people to your site. So why, in your right mind you should send them away to other company site before they even had the opportunity to explore your offer? # 5. Since these services are busy downloading of your pages can take considerable time even during the Off-rush hours. Which will cost you clients again, since nobody likes to wait on the Net for ages for some page to finally show up on his screen. # 6. If you ever get into some troubles (spam or such..) you will most likely get shut down immediately without even chances of futher explanation/discussion. # 7. Your free Webhost can go out of business, so your URL is "out of business" as well. (If you have your own domain name at the professional web hosting service you can change your hosting company every month and nobody will notice. It won't affect your traffic at all.) # 8. Did you ever considered what can happen if your "free" web host system crashes? How about the Backup of your site? Do you think they even have one? This can Really Stop your business from running! # 9. No customer support. So, where do you go if some problem arises? # 10. What if your free web host decide to start charging you? You will lose again: No proper URL and you still have to pay anyway. Remember: If anything happens to your free address, you have lost All the business you have worked so hard to get. And these are just few points you should consider before you put up your site with the "free hosting" service. If you want to do business on the Web seriously spend those few bucks a month on a real professional web hosting. Otherwise those few dollars you are saving for your monthly hosting fee, can actually cost you hundreds if not thousand of dollars of lost revenue. © Dagmar Rakos Administrator, www.conopmark.com All Rights Reserved --------------------------------------------------------------------- Resources and Directory for internet marketing, affiliate marketing, online business. Tips, tools, reviews and recommendations. Find it at: www.conopmark.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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