Hi I recently discovered that wordpress will now host your blog for free. So I got an account just to check it out and I was wondering if "your-domain.wordpress.com's" would bring in as much traffic as a standard .com,.net, etc. domain? Also, are you able to do custom layouts on the wordpress hosted blogs? I pay for hosting and could easily host my own wordpress blog but i'm just wondering. Thanks
Hosting it at WP it very, very limiting. If you've got the option to host it yourself, do it. It's well worth it.