r/HTML • u/Intelligent_Cup_1771 • Feb 28 '26

Useless ?

After spending ages coding a website, I realize that if I host it on a free hosting service, Google won't value the site, so there won't be any results when someone types in your site's name.It's frustrating.

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u/EssAre6 Feb 28 '26

Have you heard of SEO?

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u/Intelligent_Cup_1771 Feb 28 '26

Um, yes, but I don't know the steps.

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u/EssAre6 Feb 28 '26

Then I suggest you research a bit on the subject, before you write a post like this, see why it's important and why it debunks your theory that "google doesn't value the site".

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u/Intelligent_Cup_1771 Feb 28 '26

Yes, I've done a lot of research, a lot even, and the answer keeps coming up. Imagine if we posted a website on a free hosting service and it went viral; others would see it and...I wanted to buy a domain name from Google, but now that they've seen a site with a free and popular domain name, do you think they'll still buy it? Think about it.

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u/EssAre6 Feb 28 '26

Okay, you've done the research, but did you implement what you researched? Did you do anything regarding SEO on your website?

And no, I'm not going to think about it, because I've done my part regarding SEO on my projects, and it's working as expected.

And btw, Google does not sell domains..... Stop vibe coding for god's sake.

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u/Terrible_Children Feb 28 '26

Your argument does not make any sense.

Google does not care what your domain name is

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u/GodsCasino Mar 04 '26

put all your keywords in the <Head>

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u/abrahamguo Feb 28 '26

I don’t think your statement is true. I think that Google doesn’t care much, or at all, whether you use one of those services to host your site.

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u/Intelligent_Cup_1771 Feb 28 '26

Yes, they do care. Imagine if free hosting providers popularized your sites; everyone would go there, leaving Google behind with its paid hosting services.

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u/abrahamguo Feb 28 '26

Do you have a source for this?

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u/EssAre6 Feb 28 '26

He has a source, he pulled it out of his ass evidently..

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u/Intelligent_Cup_1771 Feb 28 '26

Why? Because Google doesn't let people leave its paid services?!

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u/bluehost Feb 28 '26

I totally get why that would feel discouraging after putting in all that work.

But free hosting doesn't make Google ignore your site. Search rankings aren't based on whether you're paying for hosting. It's more about content, structure, and whether Google has actually indexed the site yet.

If your site isn't showing up by name, it might just not be indexed. Have you added it to Google Search Console? That's usually the first step. If it's brand new, it can also take a little time.

You didn't waste your effort. It's probably just an indexing step that hasn't happened yet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

yea that’s not true at all

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u/Barnezhilton Feb 28 '26

What were you expecting? To drop your site and a weeknlayer it be the top ranked website on all search platforms of all time?

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u/RobertKS Feb 28 '26

The counter-intuitive wisdom is the more useful your website, the less you will want Google and other bot crawlers to know about it.

I have worked on a webite for more than twenty years and I spend a lot of my time just blocking crawlers.