Alright - this is a test of the Google Page Creator.   Let's see what this bad boy can do!

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Ok, so we have bullets, changing font size and color, the ability to create links, bold, italicize <- Danger!  I am not sure if this is spelled right, but there is no spellcheck available.  When I tried to copy and paste "italicize" into MS Word I couldn't do it.  THAT'S NO GOOD. (don't judge me for bad spelling please!)

I can go in and edit HTMl, which is nice, but I can't do it for the whole page, just each section. 

Now, Let's create a horizontal line in the HTML editor, shall we.

UGH!  I noticed that the HTML for the page is U-G-L-Y.

Here is the HTML for this line of text:

<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><FONT face="trebuchet ms">Here is the HTML for this line of text:</FONT></P>

That is kinda chunky, eh?

 

Now it is time to create a new page!  Please go to the Penguin Zazzo Party Report page!  (Click now)

 

OK!  You are back!  I hope we get ranked for Penguin Zazzo Party Report - it is a huge money term.  Or not.

I will throw up a link on the affiliate blog to the page too - we will see soon enough if these pages can be indexed.

So I just hit the "publish" button and saw the URL for this page: http://jomdahl.googlepages.com/home

Pretty decent as far as URL cleanliness goes.

Also, I looked into the different templates available, and there are a lot of choices - 41 to be exact.  There are also 4 choices for page layout.

The site templates are alright, but nothing too exciting in my opinion.  All of them are very reminicent of Blogger templates.

THE VERDICT:

Overall, I would say that the Google Page Creator serves as a simple way for people and businesses to create a Web site.  It is my guess that the target for this product is not so much people desiging personal Web sites - they have Blogger for that.  I think Google is hoping to leverage the Page Creator along with AdWords.

I know a lof of affiliates contact us who want to be affiliates but they have no idea how to create a Web site.  With Google page Creator they can put together a site in minutes and have AdWords traffic going to it within the hour.

I think that is really cool - but I think more customization needs to be available to really make the Web pages good for affiliates and companies.

If they can get that it means more $$$ for big GOOG.