How to Build a Website With Google Sites, Step by Step

Business owners in the internet age all want their own website to corporate website. Building a website takes programming knowledge, but people outside the industry can still do it. Google offers a free website builder, Google Sites, which makes it easier for non-developers to build a website. Let's Mona Media see how to use Google Sites to get the best results in the article below.

What is Google Sites?

Google Sites was launched in 2018 by Google and is part of the Google Apps suite. The app is designed to help users easily create a website just like creating a document. With it, you can upload many kinds of information on the same page, including attachments, videos, images and text, everything needed to build a normal website. You can also share this information with one person, many people, or keep it just for yourself.

Design templates for many fields in Google Sites

Even so, we still encourage you to have your website built by a professional team to bring more benefits to your business. When users visit a website, they expect useful information. A site with interesting features also keeps customers around longer. Contact us to build a professional web system for your brand. This is what Mona Media did for businesses starting from zero. A motorbike parts business with many competitors and flat revenue, but they changed… A business in its third generation chose traditional ways to promote its brand, so few people knew it. After building its website with Mona, its revenue improved UP 250% and reach grew to 200% views ORGANIC TRAFFIC.

Main features of Google Sites:

• You can edit the site's layout freely. Create a new subpage by clicking the button.
• You can choose different page types, such as dashboard pages, announcement pages, web pages and lists,…
• Centralized shared information: embed multimedia content (such as documents, videos, spreadsheets, presentations, iGoogle gadgets, Picasa slideshows) in any page and upload attachments.
• Set permissions so your website is private or public, and let people edit and view it as you choose. Only people you invite as collaborators can build the site for your domain.
• With Google's search technology, you can easily search your content on Google Sites.

See more:

• What is Google Form? How to embed a Google Form on your website
• How to embed a fanpage into your website

Google Sites is a great tool for building a website. It supports up to 100MB and is 100% free, with fairly good support SEO and strong built-in tools, so it wins over most users. But without deep SEO knowledge, can your website hold a top position on Google? This is the result we achieved for Mona Media's own brand. And that is not all: our projects number in the hundreds, with 60+ staff dedicated to the craft.

Pros and cons of building a free website with Google Sites

Advantages

• You can build a website quickly with a few simple steps. It is free and needs no technical expertise or coding knowledge.
• As a Google product, it is well optimized for Google's search tools, with SEO website, fast page loading, and it is updated regularly to keep up with Google's changes.
• It has large storage and many other advantages you will notice as you use it.

Disadvantages

• Editing, upgrading and customizing the website are limited, and you cannot change everything the way you want
• Also, you do not really feel like the owner of your site, because many things depend on Google.
• Domain complicated, not very attractive, and you must keep the sites.google.com label.

But if you build the website yourself, you have to do every other step on your own. It is not only about building a site on Google. You also have to figure out how customers will get to know your brand. Hiring a web design agency instead saves you a lot of time to build a marketing strategy for your brand. Our full-service web design package includes solutions to the problems you ran into before.

A guide to building a website with Google Sites

Register your website

Step 1: First, open your browser and type in the address http://sites.google.com Step 2: Enter your Gmail address and password. This account will manage the website from then on. Before signing in, choose Vietnamese or English as the interface language to make things easier. After these 2 steps, you will start building the website on the platform, which opens in the browser as in the image below

Ways to build a website with Google Sites

At the “Create” is the button, the plus icon at the bottom right of the screen, click “Create” to start building a website with Google Sites. You will have 2 options. If you choose “Classic Sites” to build the website in the classic column layout, you must go through many steps. But if you choose “New Sites” the setup is much easier. Below, I will guide you through both methods for your reference. After building the site, you need to do SEO to raise its visibility with customers. Many businesses spend years building a website but pick a cheap SEO provider by mistake. Hung Phuc Khang rents and sells photocopiers, and made this mistake twice when choosing cheap providers. Choosing Mona Media to grow with them, we helped Hung Phuc Khang reach numbers they had never hit before. Traffic grew sharply from zero to over 23.000+ and revenue grew by 400%.

Method 1: Build a free website the easy new way

Click the “Create”, then choose “New Sites”, and the interface will switch to a new layout like the image below. Step 1: Build the website's home page layout First you will create the first page, which is the “Home page” First. In the middle of the screen, enter the page title, along with the company name and its main products or services, or simply a slogan. Next you will see the line “Change image”, where you can update the home page background. For the best-looking layout, choose an image about 1357 pixels wide. In the “Enter site name” is at the left corner of the screen. Type the name of the site you want to create and add a logo by clicking “Add logo” . If you are used to SEO and want to do SEO, note that this becomes the page's URL, so keep it short and fitting for the best results. Then, at the right of the screen, click “Insert” -> choose the icon “Tt” “Text box” to create content for the home page. This is a text editing box, so you can set up the content however suits your needs and wishes. Then click “Publish” at the top right to finish the layout of the home page on Google Sites. See also:

• What is the standard image size
• Standard website banner sizes for better design

Step 2: Create the layout for subpages After the steps above, you get a fairly complete free website. If you want to add other pages, such as modules like about us and news,… look at the right corner of the screen for the button “Trang” and click it, then click the add page icon if you want to name the module, and finally select the Done button as shown in the image below To add content to the sub-page you just created, follow the same steps as for the Home page above: choose “Insert”, then pick the “Tt Text box” icon, and type your text into the editing frame. If the sub-page is displayed as a summary module (for example: Services) that contains smaller modules (such as SEO, web design, Google Adwords), choose “Add sub-page”.   Once you have finished all the steps above, here is your final result

Method 2: Use the classic column-style free site

First, note that this method is a bit more complicated. If you find it too hard, feel free to skip it. Here is how to set up a site on Google Sites in the classic column style: Click the button “Create” -> choose “In classic sites”. In the new window, do the following: Pick a website template that fits your taste and your industry or field. If you are only building a simple satellite site for SEO, it is best to choose the easiest layout. If you cannot picture what your site should look like yet, click “Browse the folder for more”. It holds several templates provided by Google for you to look at. Name the site anything you like, or name it after your goal. After you name the site, the interface platform will load automatically URL. Choose a theme for the site and write an intro that summarizes your whole industry, goods and services. Verify the code Captcha. And in the last step, click the button “Create site” ( Create new site) to finish setting up the site, then start the design steps. Building a site with free tools will certainly bring many drawbacks. That is why many businesses choose to spend money on a professional website. Besides what we have shared, you can also read more about the pros and cons of Google Sites to make the right, most reasonable decision for your long-term needs. Good luck! Please contact us via:

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