Google Page Creator - what is the benefit to pages.google.com?

[JoeHouse]

Hello

Has anybody used Google page creator yet? If so, what are the benefits of using this page creator?

I heard they get crawled but do they rank well? Just trying to figure out why someone would use page creator instead of blogger.

What is the difference between the two? They seem to search the same purpose.

Please Advise.

[tedster]

Sorry, no responses so far. I have always assumed that this particular offering is not aimed at the same demographic who would be members at WebmasterWorld, but rather it's for the low-tech or no-tech general population. At least that's my take on the information Google provides at [pages.google.com...]

Their description of the Google Page Creator begins:

Want to create an online photo tour of your vacation to Bali? An overview of the South American precipitation cycle for your science class? A shrine to your pet ferret?

Since the product is still in an early testing and development stage, I don't expect much from it. Seems like sort of a pre-blogging thing.

[WiseWebDude]

I think it will work once people find out about it. I have a lot of family members that use those crap, free sites packed full of ads, spyware and stuff because they don't know how to do stuff on the net and it's easier for them. They would LOVE this!

[europeforvisitors]

I heard they get crawled but do they rank well?

I can't think of why they'd do any better or worse than other pages of their type. If Joe's page of hunting tips or Grandma's page about her grandchildren gets inbound links from the BBC and THE NEW YORK TIMES, it may rank well for relevant searches; if not, it will probably stay below the radar just like independently-hosted pages on the same topic.

[JoeHouse]

Tedster you are right and its not that I do not agree with you, and you all make very good points and I will agree with most.

But I think what we are forgetting here is the possible backlink value these types of pages can provide. Appears to be another way to create backlinks.

You can create relevant content and place your anchor text etc....Just curious if anyone has experimented on this and what were the results?

[DamonHD]

Please don't use this as a vehicle for WEBSPAM. Matt Cutts and co will be on you like a ton of bricks, and possibly connect the dots with all your other activities that touch Google one way or another.

Rgds

Damon

[martinibuster]

>>>You can create relevant content and place your anchor text etc...

Actually, the way it's usually done is someone else makes the content, obtains links to it, then a rogue link builder takes over curating the page after it's many years old and the original owner has moved along, forgotten their web page, or died. Don't ask how to take over the page, please. Thanks.

[JoeHouse]

OK I get it, maybe a bad idea. However some may call it web spam while others call it creative marketing. Depends on how you look at it I guess.

Anways I was just trying to see if there was any good purpose to use this tool. I still think the jury is still out on it because its too new.

[jomaxx]

From what I've seen, a typical site's PageRank and authority will be dismal. I don't even see a homepage for the Page Creator community - no list of sites hosted, no friendly way to search them, etc.

(Although obviously it's possible to search the pages by specifying site:googlepages.com)