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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

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I’m talking about the free web-based website hosts. If you remember a website by the name of Geocities where you could sign in and build a website, then you might remember that it was just a couple of years ago that Yahoo! And all those people who had websites hosted by Geocities had to move their sites, or lose them.

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Your First Small Business Step To Online Marketing

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Advice I’ve given in the past is the same advice that most small business marketing consultants give: Buy a domain name, pay for hosting, set up a website, etc. I’ve changed my thinking over the years about how small businesses can make that first all-important step to achieving an online presence.

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The Cynical Side Of SEO

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That will force many smaller companies to live inside the Google ecosystem, with Google ranking the Google-hosted pages/products/locations for those companies, so that they can serve ads against them and get a bigger slice of the revenues. If you ask me, I think that’s pretty cynical. Maybe I’m naive. What are your thoughts?

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About.Me: A Good Starting Place On The Web? | Small Business Mavericks

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I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. That makes it infinitely more valuable than most free web hosts. I still am. But I recently took a quick survey of About.Me You can also link to your websites so if you build your About.Me

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Would An Online Presence Save Your Business?

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That’s a domain name, hosting, a decent web site and blog thrown in. Many business owners have a misconception about the cost of setting up an online presence. It doesn’t cost tens of thousands, you can set up a reasonable online presence for around a thousand dollars.

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Why Must You Have A Presence On The Web?

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Why pay for hosting, a domain name, and perhaps even website design? Because they serve no other purpose than to ‘have a presence on the web’ The business owners who have put these sites up would most likely admit to never having had a legitimate lead coming from their ‘web presence’ So why do they do it?