Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Adsense on Google Pages

I've been doing an experiment with websites created in Google page creator lately, and comparing them to a blog created on blogspot.

The first thing I've noticed is that a blog on blogspot gets WAY more traffic than a website with similar content. This may be simply because blogs are updated on a regular basis and are therefore more popular, and appear to be more current. It may also be because there is a blogspot community, whereas pages created with Google page creator are out fending for themselves in the barren wasteland of the internet.

Google page creator seems to be geared more toward people who have little to no experience with web design, and no knowledge of html code. Whereas on a blog like this, you have to do some work with html to add a custom header, Google pages is basically just cut and paste, using nothing more than Paint or Photoshop, if need be.

That said, I think Blogger is a lot more customizable than Google page creator. Blogger may be more technical, but the final results just seem a lot more solid and professional than anything I've been able to come up with on Google page creator.

Some people might like the fact that Google pages is more automated, but the downside to that is that images can slide around all over the place on their own, and things can just go really wrong really fast.

Blogger is a great way to get your information on the web quickly and in an attractive format, as well as being a decent stepping stone to more advanced web applications and design. Holla atcha boy.