How to make a web site using Google products

Have you ever wandered if you can build a website of your own for free using only products already available to you? I'm not talking about website scripts that you need to install. I'm talking about products or you can call them services that will take care of all the insides of maintaining and administer a website leaving you the most important thing to do. Thing that you can accomplish with your already build skills. All that you will need to do is creating the content of your website. This services leaves to you the originality of your website. 

If you just want a website where to put down your thoughts and share them with your friends or anyone interested in the subject that you are talking on your site. Using such products is easy and your content will be up in no time and anyone, if you prefer so, will be able to see it. Why I've said if you prefer so? Well, products from Google that will take your content up on the web do have privacy options that will let you decide who will be able to see your content.

If you decide that all you want to do is have your content up on the web for anyone to see it, if you just want to share your thoughts with the world, then products like Google sites, Blogger, Knol and Google groups can help you.

Why using products from Google and not others? You already decided that all you want to do is sharing your thoughts with the world so why not monetize it? Google products will let you monetize your site. Products from Google will even ease the process of adding advertisements on your site, especially advertisements from their own advertisement platform AdSense.

Now lets go trough the steps of building a free website with Google products in an overview so that you will get a first understanding of what you will be able to achieve.

You need to start by creating a Google account if you don't have one already. With a Google account in your hands you get access to lots of services. The next step is to set up a website on Google sites. Here you'll be able to create web pages, customize the layout of your pages, ad all kind of gadgets from the Google Gadgets library. Advertisements can be added to on the pages so you are able to monetize the site. You have a website with some content, now what? In the next step lets enhance the website with a blog. You just need to create a blog on Blogger and link to it from your website. Customize the blog to blend with your website layout and start adding content to it. Until now you have created your website, enhanced it with a blog, now if you think your website needs more interactivity, you can create a group on Google Groups. You can use a group like a forum or a mailing list. All you need to do is to set it up and don't forget to link to it from your website and blog. Even more, if you want to provide stand-alone articles you can use Knol. Once again, link all the pieces of the puzzle together to form a website.

Now that your site is up and running and you create more and more content you can ad AdSense ads to monetize your site. AdSense is the easier way to monetize your website and the products that you used for building your free site all have made easy to integrate capsules of advertisements wherever you want them to be placed. Don't stop at AdSense ads. Google lets you ad gadgets on your pages. Those gadgets can contain even pieces of code provided to you by the affiliate program that you have joined. So you are able to monetize your website basically from any affiliate program.

There more to discover for a newbie. The process of customizing all the pieces of your website in order to blend and create a single look. It will be a huge article if I try to explain every single product and I am sure that I won't be able to provide as good assistance as the help provided with the products.