Let me start by saying that I am in no way an SEO person. If you are and can seriously optimize a freesite properly than you will probably have different findings than I.
What I have noticed is that SE traffic for freesites picks up for awhile and then drops off.
I looked at a fs I subbed originally 05/06 and mirrored 11/07. SE traffic was long gone on the original but the mirrored now has a trickle from google not including the 3725 hits from LL and 1 sale. 20 mins to do it $35 return
Wish I could that more often.
I looked at one that had 3 mirrors of the original clean version all subbed the same day in 05/07. 1 mirror has received the bulk (still getting a tiny trickle), another a couple handfulls and the third nothing. This is what I have noticed with others. Would that first one receive more SE if there were no mirrors? I do not know
This may be short sighted but so is my banker that owns the mortgage to my house
