You may remember recently reports of the launch of Google Services for Websites earlier this year. For those of you that didn’t know about this, Google Services for Websites was created and designed to help web hosters and access providers to easily offer powerful tools to their customers or webmasters to help enhance their websites and improve them.
The tools included around the time of the launch included Webmaster Tools, AdSense and Custom Search, aimed at helping website owners understand website and search performance, monetize their websites and improve the user experience. Going in the same vein, Google has recently rolled out more new tools to the program for all to take advantage of.
Since the introduction of the initial offerings many hosting companies have reported that it helped them enhance their services by integrating with the appropriate APIs. With the services program, webmasters can configure accounts, submit Sitemaps with Webmaster Tools, create Custom Search Boxes for their sites and monetize their content with AdSense.
Now, there are more tools to help you run a better website and offer your users more. These new tools are:
- Web Elements: With Web Elements, webmasters can enhance their websites with the ease of cut-and-paste. They can also provide maps, real-time news, calendars, presentations, spreadsheets and YouTube videos on their sites. Further, the Conversation Element allows websites to create more engagement with their communities. The Custom Search Element provides inline search within a site and it does not require you to write any code. The Custom Search Element also provides various options to customize further.
- Page Speed: Page Speed enables webmasters to evaluate the performance of their web pages. Webmasters can also use this tool to get suggestions on how to improve their websites.
- The Tips for Hosters page: With a set of tips, it assists hosters help their customers in creating richer websites for their visitors. The set of tips includes the use of analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help webmasters understand their traffic and linguistic tools such as Google Translate to help websites reach a broader audience.
Web hosting companies or web hosters who would like to participate in the Google Services for Websites program can apply here. As a web hoster, your integration with the service APIs will be required before you can make the services available to your customers!
What’s particularly cool about the Google Conversation Element is that it can tap into “Global Conversations” that happen simultaneously on multiple websites. Sure, you can opt to limit it to content from your own site, but it’s fun to allow worldwide content to flow in, for your selected topic.