Ever wanted to create a website for your personal business or simply just for fun? If yes then here is the perfect solution for you. Using Google Sites, a building and hosting tool, you can do this from the comfort of your browser.

Google Sites is an awesome tool to start with your website. With the outreach of India today, the best way to reach the audience is by making full use of this technology. Whether it is a personal site, or a professional one, a website helps for your global reach. But, what if you don’t how know how to create a website? Then Google Sites is for you. It has the tools and resources to help create a website with relative ease. Not only plain text website, it allows one to make rich content website. One doesn’t need the knowledge of HTML or any other language to make a website at Google Sites. The making of website is easy and with just a click of buttons.

With easy accessible buttons on the toolbars, your basic formatting and layout needs are taken care off. Loads of customizable options are available to give your site the exact look and feel you always wanted to give. Alternatively, you can choose one of the many themes provided to bring out the central idea of your site. Not only this, you can also embed your pages with other Google tools like calendars, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slideshows and a lot more

GOOGLE ANALYTICS SUPPORT:

Google analytics is a very powerful and easy to use tool which helps to keep track of how many people visited your site, in other words, how many Hits you got, which pages got most views, etc. It is very useful is you are creating a business website. It provides information in form of graphs. Using the powerful tools, one can find where the traffic is coming from. To use it, all one has to do is sign up to Google Analytics website at www.google.com/analytics/ and get started. To see the stats, just login to your analytics account.

SHARING YOUR SITE:

Google Sites gives you complete freedom of specifying that does what with your website. For starters, you can choose whether you want the site to be viewable only by a certain group of people that you know, or the entire world at the time of creating the site. You can use this feature if you’re uploading your website for the first time. You can also send invitations to several people to visit your site as well as give them different levels of permissions to view the webpage. There are three permissions you can choose from. You can either give permissions of an “Owner”, “Collaborators”, or “Visitors”. To invite people simply enter their email addresses into the text area provided. Alternatively, you can select people directly from your contact list. Click the “Choose from contacts” link from below the text area. Click the contacts you would like to invite to administrate or view your website. Click “Done” to insert these addresses into the text area. Once done, simply click the “Invite these people” button to send invitations to the added contacts. The people you have invited appear in the list at the right of the page. If you later want to revoke any of the permissions, simply click the “Remove” link that appears at the side of each name in the list. You can even revert your site to private by clearing the “Make it Public” checkbox under the advanced permissions.

USE YOUR OWN DOMAIN:

If you want your website to appear more professional, you may consider changing the URL your website uses. Instead of using the sites.google.com domain name which will appear in the URL of all of your pages, you can replace it with your own domain name. However, you will need to own the domain name that you wish to use. Doing so, Google Sites will automatically map and redirect your public website to your own domain. Doing so, websites with URLs like http://sites.google.com/a/example/home can be accessible using a URL like www.example.com/home. This way you can access your website on an easier to remember link rather than having “sites.google.com” in your web address. You can add your own domain as your website’s URL through the “Web Addresses” tab from the “Settings” page. Add the URL of the domain you want the website to be accessed through in the “Add a web address:” textbox and click “Add”.

MORE ACCURATE SEARCHES:

Google incorporates its search technology into its Sites service. Using techniques like stemming and synonym support you can search through the millions of sites present on Google Sites.

Stemming helps improve your search results by not limiting your search to only the typed keywords by including popular variations of the words used. For example, if a search is made for “car racing” your result would contain sites with words like “car race”. With synonym support, words with similar meaning to the keywords are searched for. For example, a search for “car insurance” will return results with words like “auto insurance” and “vehicle insurance”. While searching for a particular page on Google

Sites, you are given an option so specify which websites you would like to search in. You can choose to search within websites that you are invited to, or all the public websites available on Google Sites.

Adding an accurate description to your website is important, because the site description is included as a description meta-tag. For all public websites, the description meta-tag may be displayed by other search engines in the result snippet. This can even route more traffic to your website.

Having a good description for your site makes it easier for people to understand exactly what your site is all about if it appears as a search result. With all these features and a lot more on off er, Google Sites makes it truly easy to setup your own website with minimum hassle.

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