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A map, and the last hundred metres

A real Clay site — built from a Google listing

Everybody can find your street. What they cannot find is the side entrance, the alley door and the car park that is not the obvious one.

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Gasthuisstraat 12Green door in the alley, past the bike racks
Map
DirectionsOpens in Google Maps
Where to parkThe multi-storey on Kerkstraat, four minutes on foot
What sits on Visit

The map, then the sentence

The map is a still picture our server draws — your pin on your building, your logo in it, or your initial in the shape you picked. Under it sit your address, your week and whatever you want to say about getting in. Most places write one sentence and never touch it again.

It cannot be dragged or zoomed, and that is on purpose. A small embedded map is a thing people fight with a thumb; a picture and a directions link is not. Tapping directions hands your address to Google Maps, which already knows where they are standing.

If you have no address to give — a plumber in a van, a groomer who comes to the dog — there is no map, deliberately. A pin on your house is not a service area.

Google will get somebody to your street. What it will not tell them is that the door is down the side, that the bell is the unmarked one, or that the car park it has just routed them to is the one that fills up by nine.

A Clay site draws a map from the coordinates that arrived with your listing, puts a directions link beside it, and leaves the space underneath for you. That space is where the alley goes, and it is the part nobody else lets you write.

What you get

Placed without typing anything

The coordinates arrive with your Google listing, so the pin lands on your building rather than somewhere near your postcode. Nobody types a thing.

The pin is yours

The pin is your logo, or your initial in the shape you chose on Brand — your building, not a red teardrop.

A pin per branch

Several branches sit on one map with a pin each, and every branch gets its own page a search engine can rank.

Questions

How long does it really take?

Most people are live in two to three minutes — search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.

Is it free?

Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.

Do I need any tech skills?

None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated — see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes — buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.

Can I write the directions myself?

Yes, and it is the part that actually helps. One sentence about the green door, the bell or the car park does more than the map does. What you cannot do is move the map or choose which side of the page it sits on — the content and the theme decide that between them.

Can visitors zoom in on the map?

No. It is a still picture drawn on the server, not a map you can drag; the pins are links and that is all they do. The directions link hands your address to Google Maps, which already knows where the person is standing and which way they are pointing.

I have two shops. Do I need two sites?

No. Branches live on one site — each with its own address, its own week, its own phone number and its own page at /visit/harbour-street rather than a fragment of one long page. They share a single map with a pin each. Opening hours work the same way.

What you get

A map drawn from your listing's own coordinates
Directions opens in the map app they already use
Your words under it — the door, the alley, the parking
One pin per branch, and a page per branch

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