How to Create a Google My Business Website (for free)

Hey , everyone .

This is Tony Tech .

I'm Tony .

And in this video , I'm gonna show you how to create a Google my business website for your website .

We'll go through your options with that , do some customization .

And I think the best part of this is that it's free , there's no hosting fees or anything like that .

So let's go ahead and get on into the tutorial here .

Um Right here , I do have my Google my business listing .

It is a video production company called Swamp View Productions .

And um right now I have a custom wordpress website .

So if you click on the website here , uh it'll take me to Swamp view dot com and this is a wordpress website .

I am paying every month for hosting for this .

It's not through Google my business .

I'm just linking through my business listing on Google when my business shows up here .

Um But what I'm gonna show you today is how to create a free website within Google my business .

Um that when your users search for your business on Google , they can click on that and go to your business listing website .

So let's go ahead and do that .

Uh We're gonna open your , my business uh dashboard here .

It's usually at business dot google dot com .

And um let me just show you first off here uh under the info section , just how I made that linkage to my custom word press website .

That's down here in the info section .

You're linked to your website .

Uh But we're gonna , like I said , change that to the built in website , which is down here on the left hand side uh on the website tab here .

And when you click on that , you get this basic website that Google tries to build for you based on the information that you provided when you set up your business .

So um we'll just scroll down here .

We're gonna customize a lot of this here , but we have our name of our company , the category that it fits in .

Um We have a header photo which I believe this , this was pulled in from youtube .

OK ?

So the youtube channel that was associated with my account uh that might have been pulled in through there or my photos or my Google Drive , something like that .

Um You have your update section here , testimonials , anybody who wrote , wrote a review about your business that shows up under that section and then you have an about us section gallery again , that's pulled in from your , your photos that you uploaded , that you associated with your business and uh a contact section at the bottom So let , I mean , they do a pretty good job of pulling that together , making a basic website , but let's do some customization with this .

Um You can do that in these , if you click on themes here on the left hand side , these are the themes that we're at this point .

At least we're pretty much stuck with choosing .

So you kind of have to find a theme in this list .

Hopefully it's possible that aligns well , with the colors of your theme or your business , right , your your logo or whatever it is .

So , um I think for me , it would be between these two right here , this like purpleish color , uh darker and uh between the fonts .

I would like this more uh standard looking font .

So let's see what that looks like up here that I'll have to do .

Unfortunately , this is a constraint right now for Google my business , you're just gonna have to pick one that , that fits the best .

So as far as colors and font sizes and everything like that , that's what we're limited to here .

Ok .

So that's it for the theme that updated uh everything as far as the colors are concerned .

Let's move on to the edit section here .

And for this button right up here at the top , you have three different options for what the button's gonna say .

So you can do contact us , get a quote or make an appointment now for contact us and get a quote , you will uh get an email at your Gmail account that's associated with your business with that , that query from your potential customer .

And then for make an appointment , you will have to link this to some type of calendar external service that allows you to uh have your , your potential customers make appointments with you .

But for me as a video production company , I'll just use the contact us button and that way my uh website visitors can contact me directly via email .

OK ?

So uh moving along here , we have text for the headline .

Uh that's just gonna be most in most cases your company names .

So I'll change that to Swamp View productions like that .

And the description that was pulled in from when you set up your Google Business uh video production service .

That sounds good .

Now this summary header and summary , summary header and summary body uh that I believe shows up down here somewhere and I kind of wrote some uh some summaries before the video here .

So I'm just gonna paste those in .

So I have one .

The title of the summary is gonna be What is Swamp View and then a brief description of what Swamp View is .

And this , this is , this is um this is pretty highly customizable this section .

So uh I have just an introduction , couple sentences here .

We specialize in these types of things and this is good because we can actually make this a bulleted list .

So it looks a little bit nicer and then if you wanna add some emphasis here , um , I'll say , uh we serve a global audience , I'll make that bold .

So that sticks out real nice here .

Um So yeah , that's , that's like the About me section and then , uh we will save that because that's all the customization we can do in that section .

Um If you do want to add more photos , you can do that in the photo section .

If you don't already have them pulled in from your business .

And then finally , um we'll move on to the more section and this is when it comes time to publish your website .

So you have a couple options here .

Um You can click publish now and this will uh make your website live at the default URL .

So somebody can go to swamp dash view dash productions dot business dot site and then they will see your website .

But you can customize that .

I think just for the sake of having a shorter URL , I'm gonna see if I can do just uh swamp view without any dashes .

So swamp view dot business dot site .

And let's see if it allows me to do that .

Yeah .

Uh It looks like it did .

Let me see if it updated that .

That did not work .

Let's go back and let's see if we can update site name .

It looks like it took the change .

Uh Let me just go to that website manually .

So , Swamp view dot business dot site and yeah , that ok .

So that works .

So this is what the live website looks like right now , Swamp View Productions .

We got our contact us button and when you click on that , like I said , your , your um your visitors can fill out a form with their name , phone number , email address and this will get sent to your Gmail account that's associated with your business .

So , um that's perfect and that's built in for us .

You have this tab on the left hand side with a link to your sections .

It's just a one page website .

So when you click on about us , it'll take you down to the about us section that we wrote here .

Uh And you have your gallery , same type of thing and that's , that's it .

That's what you get for free here .

I have with a Google my business website .

I don't think there's uh the other thing , the one other thing that I wanted to say , if you do want a custom domain name , they uh they give you some suggestions up here if you don't like , if you don't like swamp view dot business dot site and you want something like swamp View productions dot com or whatever your business name is .

Um You can buy a website but you uh not a website , you can buy a domain name , but that domain name , at least at this time .

Appears like it has to be from Google Domain .

So Google , Google sells domain names and you can go through that process up here to buy a domain name and um customize it that way .

Uh But if you don't go through that option , then I think the , the only other thing that you would want to do and this is probably a little bit different for you .

It probably defaults to uh automatically assigning this to your business profile .

But uh if you want to update the listing to use this website instead , like we saw in the beginning of the video when we go to uh Swamp View Productions in Google , if we refresh the page , now that we updated that this should take us to the business website now and it does .

So that's how that linkage happens .

Um I think that's it for this video guys .

If you have any questions about setting up a website with Google my business or getting that custom domain name , let me know in the comments below .

I'll do my best to help you out .

I got plenty of other videos on this channel about setting up websites for your business specializing in wordpress .

So if you want to check one of those out , check out one of these videos over here .

Thank you guys for watching .

I'll see you in the next video .