search engines and free hosting question

How much do search engines give value to free sites? Do they weight them noticeably? Does any link from these sites has any value?

if the site's visited and indexed by google for example - there's no difference - site is a site and link is a link



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projektowanie stron internetowych, prezentacje multimedialne - that's what i do

Sometime I think google prefers the free host, old cases of my site, when using free hosts from time to time rank above my paid site.

may be b'coz that free site is linked from free host's directory having good enough PR !

No, this is wrong.
There is nearly no human intervention in website indexing, this is all about how to generate the right meta tag, place them at the correct place in your website.
Website indexing is made by bots, spiders, its all automated and there is no way a human can choose what site to add or to remove, to put first or last. It is up to you to make a site come first on google. Requires long hours of work though and being smart.
Ok, there are sales company who are paying Google to put their site at the top of the page. But to be honest, these companies are most of the time traps and never fulfill what they promise in the title.
The main idea is to be on the first page. And this, even a little free hosted website can make it in Google!
Thats my opinion, based on a little experience, i must admit.
But please. react as it is an important and interesting topic and this forum is a real info database.

Vincku

I feel that getting to the number one spot is not that hard. Staying there is the tuff part.