Putting Freesites on domain roots?

[jonnydoe]

I have a bunch of domains that I'm not doing anything with and probably won't for a long time. Some I redirect to some of my hubs and some I've thrown a few hosted banners up on and some text. Does anyone put freesites on their extra domains? It makes sense to me to kill two birds with one stone... |huh

[Maj. Stress]

jonnydoe,
I'm experimenting with that right now. It's still to early to tell but I did have a #1 on google with a free site til this last update. Currently I've been bouncing between #1 and #6 for a fairly easy term to get good rankings with. I'll try and remember to update you when the dust settles this time around. :)

You might want to play with that idea and see what you can do with it. Use some domains roots for free sites (you can always put a hub on a sitemap type of page) and some use for hub pages, etc.

[virgohippy]

Putting freesites on my under developed domains is standard practice for me. |thumb

[jonnydoe]

Thanks for the responses guys! I was just having a beer and a smoke and a think and it made sense to me...

[Greenguy]

I was always a fan of putting a small hub page on the root of my free site domains - mostly just links to the free sites that are on the domain as well as some ads & links to other free sites/domains.

[LowryBigwood]

Just my 2 cents, but i'd hub the roots. It doesn't take much work to build a quick hub, as it can be anything really. What if you build a freesite, get it listed at LL's and then want to develop the domain later? You didn't mention if you planned on submitting them to LL's...

[jonnydoe]

Good points by Greenie and Lowry about hubbing it... I think I will sleep on it...hopefully with my wife |thumb

[fresh]

if i was LL owner i would not like people submitting roots. Like Lowry said- what if you decide to develop that domain some day, or sell it.

[jonnydoe]

I was planning on submitting them to LLs... Should be good for SEO in both directions I would think. What seemed really clear I am a bit puzzled with now. If someone wanted to pay me a gob of money for one of the domains I could always email the LLs to let them know to either take it down or that I have set up a duplicate on another domain couldn't I?

[jonnydoe]

Another thought... I could put the freesite on the root with no recip table and then go up a level for the LL submissions. Then I could change it to a hub or whatever at anytime with no real issues...

[LowryBigwood]

Another thought... I could put the freesite on the root with no recip table and then go up a level for the LL submissions. Then I could change it to a hub or whatever at anytime with no real issues...

If you are going to build a freesite on the root without recips, why wouldn't you just put a hub there instead of creating more work for yourself down the road? Also, some worry about a duplicate content filter, and then again some don't(meaning if you put up a recip free freesite on the root, then move it to a subfolder later, will it do as well?). I imagine some would say it won't matter, but some would advise against that. I have took down freesites before that were doing pretty well, and placed a copy on another domain and they never did shit. Of course your results may vary.

You could put a hub up quicker than a brand new freesite. Atleast it takes me longer to develop a new freesite from scratch than a hub does. But that is just me. :D

Again, this is just my opinion, either way you go will be ok. |headbang|