Insight to Google

At a Google event hosted by Nottingham City Council on Tuesday 28th July 2009, experts from Google demonstrated how easy it is to set up a web site in 30 minutes.

The tools they used to achieve this were all FREE:

Google Sites
Google Maps
Google Local Business Centre – listings for Google Maps
Google Calendar
Google Insight – search times by date and category
Google Analytics – track and monitor links and visitors to your site

Is there a catch? No. They provide all the tools so that you provide them information which they know how to index so that their search is the best available. They also hope that you’ll set up an Adwords account to promote your brand new website.

It is perhaps Google Insight which provided the biggest eye opener of the night by providing access to realms of data which would be off limits to most.

Presentation was rounded off with a great talk by Ruddington based dustbag.co.uk.