Many people think that free hosting is only for home users and not for business users. Well, this is true and not true, because with some thoughts you can use these free hosting services to benefit your web design business. So how can this be done, you asked? Well, think about it, these free hosting sites are normally very powerful in the search engines eyes because they get linked to a lot. The Pagerank on these sites are normally 5 or above. You can easily use these so-called free hosting services to build secondary websites – definitely not your main website. These can then be used to boost the ranking of your main site and also not to mention they will drive traffic to it too!

Build informational websites on these free accounts and then somewhere in there mention your company website. You can also link the secondary websites together if you like, which is known as link wheel. Now, because these websites are not hosted on your sever you will get more power from the links. If you do enough of these you will create a set of weapons that you could use not only to benefit your own company website, but also in all projects that you launch in the future. Think of this as building assets on the internet.

Of course, you should aim to publish quality information on these websites. If you try to take shortcuts by using some duplicated content or non-human reading stuff, then you will be wasting your time. Search engines will catch up very quickly; only those who provide quality contents will stay benefiting from them for years to come. So you need to decide whether you just want some “fast” traffic or you want to build an asset on the Internet.

Having a list of well linked to and quality websites out there will instantly add value to your web design services and you can charge people more by offering links on those websites. You can also use this as your unique selling point to win over clients. Of course, if this is the route you want to take you need to make sure your secondary sites are well designed.