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.
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.
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 hours on Google for a bank holiday and there is one place that happened.
Type your name — Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap — no code, no templates to wrestle.
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot — so what you see is what it looks like right now.
Yes for the live site on your own name.clay.site. A custom domain and the pro features are paid; nothing expires.
No. Clay reads your public Google Business listing — the same page anybody sees when they search you — and needs no access to your account.
Of course. They can both exist; most people quietly stop sending anybody the old link.
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.
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.
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.
Yes: booking with deposits and a shop with card payments are part of the site. Google Sites has neither.
Search your business and see your site in seconds — free, no signup.