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As of January 23rd we will be re-launching the option to allow for free advertisement supported websites, all website trials will be converted to free ad supported websites. As many of you are aware we eliminated the free website option last year due to problems with offering free websites and everything we were trying to include with them in additional to cash flow issues because advertisements on websites would not support our operational demands.
Anyone can create a free ad supported website with some changes from when we used to offer free websites as a norm.
Some of the new limitations on the free sites will include;
- Limitations on the number of pages, and page elements.
- 2 Total Ads per page plus site sponsors
- New footer website bar on all free websites will feature an 1 advertisement of our 2 page advertisements and a new noticeable and easy to use "report this site" option so we can be notified when people seek to use our sites for abuse, along with other help full tools designed for site visitor usage.
- Free websites will be deleted regularly if there is no user logins in a 30 day period. (1 Email notice will be sent before site deletion takes place.)
- Free sites will run separate from people that upgrade thus maintaining page load times and site speed for our paying customers.
- No support will be included for free accounts other then members helping members in our public forums, full support by our team will be reserved for pay customers via phone, support tickets and live chat.
With the free ad-supported plan we rely on a site bringing a great deal of traffic to pay for the hosting expense of keeping the site online. For this reason we have strict deletion criteria; so that if a free website drops in visits and logins over any given month it will be purged from the system. With our paid plans this is not the case and you never have to worry about your site and content being deleted.
Everything has to be paid for in some way. The way that we pay for the free sites to be hosted is through advertising and advertising requires lots of eyeballs. Don't want ads on your site? Get one of the paid plans.
These new limitations help us avoid our past pitfalls with offering free before, but we really depend on people upgrading to our premium services to maintain the level of quality and value we have always offered to our customers.
By making this change will allows us to still offer a great value to those that will not or can not pay for a website while giving additional value to those that wish to upgrade.
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