Free, and it does not look free
Google Sites is genuinely free and genuinely fast. It also looks like an internal wiki, which is a problem when the page is your shop window.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
If you have already made a Google Site you know both halves of it: it took twenty minutes, and you have not sent anybody the link.
Clay reads the same Google account you are already keeping current, the photographs, the hours, the reviews, the map, and builds something you would put on a business card. It is free in the same way: a live site on your own address, no card, no trial.
Clay vs Google Sites
It is the listing you already keep up to date
The reason a Google Site feels like a duplicate is that it is one: you type in the hours you have already typed into your Business Profile.
Clay reads the Profile instead. Change your normal week on Google and there is one place that happened. A one-off, a bank holiday, an early close, is a separate exception on Google that Clay does not read, so that one you change on the site.
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
What you get
- Free, live, and it looks like a real business
- Everything comes out of the listing you already maintain
- Menu, booking, shop and reviews, not just text boxes
- One link for the door, the bio and the QR code
How it works
Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
Real sites, made with Clay
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot, so what you see is what it looks like right now.
Questions
Is Clay free like Google Sites?
Yes for the live site on your own name.clay.site. A custom domain and the pro features are paid; nothing expires.
Do I need a Google account?
No. Clay reads your public Google Business listing, the same page anybody sees when they search you, and needs no access to your account.
Can I keep my Google Site?
Of course. They can both exist; most people quietly stop sending anybody the old link.
Is it better for SEO?
It is a better-built page, proper titles, descriptions, structured data, a sitemap and fast server-rendered HTML. What matters most for a local business is still the Google listing itself, which both of these sit next to.
Can I move my Google Site content over?
There is no importer, and there is rarely anything worth moving: the hours, photographs, map and reviews come straight from your Google listing, which is where you typed most of it in the first place.
Does it work on a phone?
The phone page is its own design rather than the desktop squeezed, which is the thing a Google Site is worst at, and where nearly all your visitors are.
Can it take bookings or sell something?
Yes: a real booking calendar and a shop with a basket are part of the site, Google Sites has neither. Neither charges a card: a deposit is stated and the order is sent to you.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.