Hey, A nooby question for you guys. Let’s say i made a website about...printers. In terms of google/msn ranking alone, so don't bother about telling me the domain will be hard to remember, as i am aiming most of my hits from search engines. Okay, would it benefit in terms of SEO for cheapcolourprinters.com over cheapcolourprinters.freehostia.com? Would the SEO depend on the page rank for my free host? Are free hosts considered less important then a registered .com/.info etc with proper hosting? Thanks in advance and sorry about the nooby question.
Never, ever use a free host. Would your visitors trust a site hosted on a free host? Subdomains do not inherit the PR or rankings of the main site.
No. It wouldn't matter. Just because the free host has a high PR, it wouldn't neccesarily translate into your subdomain jumping in PR.
Are you serious about your website? If not you can go with a free host. Hosting is one of the major (or should I say most important) aspect when it comes to websites. Free/cheap hosts are hackable and wont provide you good support. I have seen people getting hacked & losing their data just because their cheap hosts were not secured enough.
For SEO may be it is the same as both of them will be new, so go for your own domain and hosting as the are better to establish a good business