Create websites using Sites.google.com from Google
What is Google Sites?
Google Sites is an online application helps creating a web site as easy as editing a document.
Using the website we can share variety of information such as videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text and it is easy to view and share with a small group, their entire organization, or the world.
Google sites - A new application from google. So it will take some time to get name in the internet market.
The search engine gaint created this application with JotSpot which is now a part of Google.
Google Sites Help Center:
http://www.google.com/support/sites/
Google Sites Features are as follows:
- Creating a new page is very simple as clicking a button
- HTML knowledge is not required because it will similar to edit a document
- They offer templates which can be edited and we can change the colors but we cannot insert the template as we need.
- The entire layout is customizable so you can change the layout as needed.
- We can upload files up to 10mb in size.
- We can insert Google Calendar, Document, Picasa slides, Presentations, Spreadsheet, Video and more gadgets.
- Sitemap is created automatically.
- Navigation and recent activities will be displayed at the left or right side bar.
- If you want to make the website private to your organization then you can select the option private.
- We can create Web Pages, Dashboard, Announcements, File Cabinet and List.
- We can put comments to all the postings or web pages we created.
- Footer links are created automatically
- URL normalization is present in the website.
- We can request more number of contributors to the Google Sites.
SEO Point of View
In blogger we need to insert a code for unique title tags but here each page will be having separate title tags.
We can infuse the Google Analytics immediately.
Alt tags can be inserted for the images.
We can easily edit the documents and create internal links and external links from Google sites.
Linking structure is automatically generated in the form of Sitemap
Still lot of updates required.
URL Normalization is very good and we can use the keywords in the URL.
Announcements and Comments are very useful.
Domain is from Google so it is an added advantage to crawl the pages.
We can use this as a promotional way for business similar to blogger.
We can create this application for the Clients.
Suggestions for Google:
How we can edit and place the webmaster sitemap
We can have an option for infusing the template
Site elements should have more option for editing the pages.
The application seems like an updated version for GooglePages
This is a new application still not more information related to the usage of this application.
