The last time I talked about using free hosting, I discussed it mainly in relation to making tgp's and free sites, now it's the turn of the Free Blog Hosts.
As is the case with all free hosting, free blog hosting comes at a price. So if that's the case, why do I use some of them myself? That's easy to answer. Free blog hosts are places where you can post your 'splogs' and some of them are good enough to also post your 'good blogs' to as well.
Some of them also have their own directories, where you can submit your blogs to promote them. Of course, as I said in my entry on blog directories, in order for this to work long term, you have to get friends and family to click on the directory links in your blogs, otherwise they soon disappear off the directory lists. The other way to keep promoting your blogs via this system is to cross link them all, then keep making new blogs to submit to the directories. With a little luck, your traffic from the directory will filter out to your other blogs ..... and so it goes on.
The other problem (among several) with free blog hosts is that, of those that run blog directories, these hosts will not list blogs hosted at other free blog sites. So, for each free blog host you use, you need to keep on building new blogs to submit to their directories...
And this is one of the reasons why there are so many porn blogs out there on the net, many of them 'splogs'. Good adult webmasters are not lazy, we simply do not have the time to run all of our blogs with handwritten content, but we need to promote them. A 'Catch 22' situation.
There are a minority of adult webmasters who do very well with free hosted blogs and using no other hosting at all, but these are very few and far between. They have either been very lucky, caught the blog market in its infancy, or, more likely, have found a niche so specific and so unique that they have developed a loyal following and a grapevine to match. These webmasters will know their subject inside out and maybe even live it themselves. Their blogs will have very good, frequently updated, knowledgeable content which, along with the constant visits from the blog's fans, will push it high in the search engines.
Of course, this method takes a lot of hard work over quite a long time and is definitely not for the faint hearted or for those who want to see the results of their labours coming in relatively quickly. In this case free hosted blogs require the earlier methods to work best.
There is a long term upside to this, however. If you make good blogs (even your 'splogs'), they will build up traffic and followers, because people realise that you have put effort in there and eventually the search engines will start hitting them without the help of those wretched directories. It just takes time ....
Next time I'll talk about particular free blog hosts.
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