Originally Posted by StarkReality

Those who think free hosted blogs are just for people who can't afford their own hosting just don't see the HUGE advantages.

Everybody is talking about SEO and if you have a look at free adult blog hosting services that are around for a long time, you'll see many of them showing up on the first page google results ? Why ? Because having a subdomain on an incredible powerful and popular domain can easily give you a first page listing for not super popular search terms. It's FREE SEO done by hundreds of other webmaster and you can profit from it.

I don't say go free hosting only, but it's some nice and easy extra traffic, I can't see anything foolish in the extra $2k+ I'm cashing from free hosted blogs every month with very little maintenance once they are built.