About 8 years ago Google launched a website creation platform called Google Sites (https://sites.google.com/new). Recently Google updated the platform to make website building much more intuitive and easy to use. They call this new platform “Google Sites New”. I guess not much thought went into it.
Google Sites | Light Bulb Moment
While doing research for my Austin SEO Expert article, I came across a Sites.Google.com listing that was ranking on page one for the search term I was targeting. I had sort of forgotten about Google’s site builder and it’s potential usefulness in ranking and getting name brand recognition for keywords. The light bulb went off when I realized that the person was using Google Sites to target the key word phrase “Austin SEO Consultant” and managed to rank for the term “Austin SEO Expert” as seen below.
Google Sites SEO Keyword Trick
The Google Sites SEO Keyword Trick comes into play because you can create a website using your target keyword phrase. In my example since I wanted to target Austin SEO Expert, I created a Google Sites website with that keyword phrase in the URL.
https://sites.google.com/view/austinseoexpert/home
As far as setup is concerned, I only created 2 pages. The Home page and the Contact page. The links on the site point back to my HangTenSEO website.
You can have a website setup and ready to go in 10 minutes. Google doesn’t charge you to create a site and there are no hosting fees. I copied most of the content from my existing site and tweaked it a bit.
Not only will you create a secondary site, but you now have a site you can create backlinks from to your “Money” site.
Google Website Builder Observations
From what I am currently seeing in Google SERPs, Google appears to give websites created using Google Sites a bit more love and rank them higher than they should.
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Thank you for this article. I also notice that for any Google sites DA is 100,and with PA 1 the site is on page 1. It is the same as Pinterest and YouTube.
Great Article. Thank you for all this info. I will use it in the near future.
Regards,
Lise Desjardins
Best artical ever .. thanks you
Well did using the Google site help hangten?
Hello
Links from google sites is nofollow, do you think they are useful for linked site?
Yes, you should have a portfolio with all types of links if you want to own a successful website. Google wants to see diversity.
Thanx for guide.Will give a try hope it helps 🙂
Thanks a ton for this trick, Even in my niche, i see very much sites are of sites.google.com of my competitors and hence i am also looking to build some google sites,
Just wanted to know..does sites.google.com ranks automatically, or do we need to put some kind of social shares,. backlinks , etc apart from great content?
I have observed that Google sites have high PR, just want to ask do they really add value to our ranking or Google excludes them?
Excellent article. I had totally forgotten that sites.google.com is one of the best places to build your SEO at practically no cost. Our (a href=”//sbnai.net”>website design which include basic SEO is always looking for such great advise. Thank you for such a great article!
First, I would say thank Glenn. I know it works and you confirmed me here. It came in my mind but I have a doubt. I have a google site on the name of my website DigiManako. Should I make new google site for my all keywords?
Thanks for this post, is very usefull to me. I want to build a web with googlesites.
I have created one site using google sites. but now the problem is how to Submit it in Google webmaster tools? like after adding it, Search consol tells me to verify it’s my site and none of the options is working as google sites doesn’t allow me to add HTML CODE provided by webmaster tool to add.
I am wondering if this is something that is still useful in 2019 with all the updates to Google’s algorithms. I haven’t seen many people talking about this but it could potentially be golden!
The only problem is, once people start finding out about it and misusing it, Google will probably end up making changes.
Not something I hope happens but it is what tends to happen.
That’s probably why not many are talking about it. 🙂
Does it help to increase ranking on Google SERP also i saw links are DoFollow but redirection URL so does it count Dofollow backlinks.
great article for newbies.
Thank you for information. Does links in new sites google are SEO friendly?
so im trying this one, even with the new G.A interface, still works like a charm. Just need to add https://www.
Hope this wont get abuse though, been seing this as for illegal movies lol
thanks for your sharing!
I have a question that how to make my site (google site) to be indexed by Google.
I’ve verified it successfully by using Google Analytics (using tracking code). But when I inspected some urls of my site on Google webmaster (test live url>>view tested page>>screenshot), the result is just a blank page with an arrow and a crossover symbol and a line text “search this site”.
I have been using googlesites for a few months now to create links back to my blog. Your case study is spot-on and has given me some fresh information to work with!
Thanks so much for this post.
Thanks for these information.
I did create a google site in 10 minutes and created a backlink on it to my main blog.
It has increased traffic on my blog.
How do we get Google to check the backlinks on the site we create, when i do a backlink check online it doesnt show up the Google site i have created
One technique I employ is to post to Twitter or Facebook. You can’t really control when Google will detect a link or not, but usually, if you post the page that contains the link to Twitter or Facebook that should get the page indexed.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the tip I’ll give it a go
Keep up the good work, thanks for taking the time to post these gems
Stu
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