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Google launched its web page creation and hosting tool, and promptly closed registrations due to “heavy demand”. But we all now know of the existence of this tool and that it will be out sooner rather than later.

Free web site hosting services, despite the popularity that they enjoyed a few years ago, are not really on everyone’s must have lists. Most people who can don’t really opt for such sites; but these are definitely good for amateurs and personal pages. Yet, Googlepages may get better attention, because it comes from the Google stable.

From a business perspective, will these be beneficial? I am sceptical.

It seems that creating this website is tied to your Gmail account; which gives me the impression that at this point, a user cannot have multiple websites using the free service. That doesn’t really help professional affiliates (who in any case may want to have pages with their own domain name).

But it certainly opens some possibilities for personal sites and amateur affiliates, who could set up a website without too much hassle and put in a few affiliate links.

It also has the potential to boost AdSense revenues as the number of amateur publishers increase significantly. I am not sure if Google is allowing AdSense on these pages yet; but my instinct is that they will at some point. While we don’t begrudge publishers earning revenues from the program, to what extent the increased distribution of AdSense will affect the quality of the traffic that will be generated is an important question that Pay-per-click advertisers will have to bear in mind. Until next time, Ben Flux

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