If price is what matters and not getting found online and winning over prospective customers, etc., then yes. The tech world has a saying, if the product is free, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. "No such thing as a free lunch!" There is always a catch if someone wants to build something just so you can use it for free. There are no companies out there acting as a community service, it's free for a reason. Free websites, whether from Google or one of the many Trade Listing sites (like https://www.cmac.ws/ which has 15,000 businesses) are free for a reason. Here is a list of why these sites are free:
- They sell your information throughout the internet.- They often sell advertisements on your page your customers can see (often for your competitors). This is Yelp's model.
- They benefit from the SEO, visitors are going to their website, not yours, it may include your name, but it is theirs and you don't have an SEO ranking. This is also Facebook's model.
.- You do not have your own domain, you might have your domain forwarded to it, but there is no SEO credit for those sites for you.
- They have very limited features and low-quality images and colors.
- There is no support, if there is a problem you are on your own.
- Due to their poor security, free website services are notorious for distributing malware. Your devices could get a virus.
- Include a menu with an Order Online button with Google and they raise your prices by 20% which your customers will have to pay & then sell the order to a 3 party App that charges you a commission, and may increase your prices too!
- Many of these sites are "Link Farms" and you will soon start getting spammed.
- Some, like Yelp, will not delete your site - ever! You thought, start with a free site & get a better site later, what happened is you created a competing website for your new nicer site. Customers may not find your better site.
- These sites are rarely mobile-friendly.
- No linking or forwarding options.
Free websites are terrible, even if you just want to just practice building sites. It is reasonable to think that a good website can get a small business at least one customer more a month, for most businesses that more than pays for it - the greatest deal in the history of the world!