Free blog hosting looking for new bloggers

[walrus]

Pimp, nothing against you as I'm sure you run an outstanding service but, unfortunately you sort of picked a board to spam that does not think favorably of free hosts.

AND the question is...Is free hosting really free?

From experience, I know that if a new blogger pays attention to the information here on this forum he should be able to generate 1k in traffic within the first 6 months. But for the sake of arguement, I'll not pay any attention to those first 6 months and only use numbers from the second 6 months.

If he is generating 1k uniques and his average CTR is 13% (which is mine...pitiful I know but I'm working on it) that would mean that he is sending 130 clicks a day to your sponsors or 23.7k in that 6 month span. Now lets say the conversion on that is 1:1000, that would be approximately 23 sales. Now using revshare ($12 per sale) an approximate minimum would be $273.00 it cost for free hosting.

Compare that to:
$10.00 domain registration
$66.00 yearly hosting

Total cost of own domain: $76.00, which means someone using free hosting is "paying" a minimum of $200.00 more for free hosting. Even if my numbers are "over-inflated" a bit, whether it be on CTR or uniques it only takes one sale a month over that 6 month period to where your not finacial better off paying for hosting.