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Google's latest version of Google Sites is now available to all!

These are the FAQs for new Google Sites. If you have questions about classic Google Sites see our Classic Google Sites FAQ.

Also see our new Google Sites How Tosouthward

How to map a web address (add a custom domain) to new Google Sites?

Google Sites fabricated with a Gmail or personal Google Account

For full instructions on how to utilise a custom URL with a new Google Site made with a Gmail or personal Google Account see Assign Custom URL Domain Spider web Address (Personal).

Google Sites made with a Google Workspace Business relationship

We have full instructions on how to map a web address to a Google Site in Google Workspace - see Map Domain Web Address Google Workspace. This includes if you use a legacy Google Apps Free account and so you need to follow these instructions too.

Why does my site ask people to sign in or announced as 404 non found?

Check the published site'due south sharing settings are set up to public

If you desire visitors to access your site without signing in then your published site's sharing settings are non set to public - here's how to resolve:

  1. Open up your new Google Site for editing

  2. Use the Share with others push button

  3. In the Links department utilize the C hange... link

  4. For the Published site link choose the Public option and utilise the Done button.

For total instructions on access permissions come across: Sharing and Publishing - new Google Sites

Set the Published site's link to public

How to share a new Google Site with a group with view only permission?

New Google Sites offers separate permissions for sharing the draft of the site for editing and permissions for viewing the published site. For more information on publishing come across Publishing and Sharing - new Google Sites

If you want to make a site that's individual to a select grouping of viewers and so set the published site's visibility to Specific people and so add the group or individuals with the View Published site permission.

How to migrate from classic Google Sites to new Google Sites?

Google has begun the roll-out of the conversion tool. For the most upwardly-to-date information on how to use the migration tool and the timeline for deprecation see: Migrate Classic to New Google Sites

How to upload files to new Google Sites?

New Google Sites does not offer an upload or file hosting facility other than for images. To make a file available from new Google Sites y'all demand to:

  1. Upload to Google Drive;

  2. Share appropriately (e.g. with a group, anyone with the link or publicly);

  3. Link to the file or embed the file in the site.

If you lot desire to make multiple files bachelor, or recreate a File chiffonier folio in new Google Sites so upload the files to an appropriately-shared Google Drive folder and so embed the folder.

For full instructions and a video demo see Upload Files - new Google Sites.

Use Google Drive to upload files to a new Google Site

How to add together a site search to new Google Sites?

New Google Sites now offers site search. It available on all new Google Sites in the meridian-correct corner of the site via the Magnifying Glass icon. There are no configuration options available and yous cannot disable the search options.

For full instructions and a video demo see: Search Site - new Google Sites

  • Search results include pages subconscious from navigation

  • Search results always use the sites.google.com URL even if your site uses a mapped domain web address

How to use site search in new Google Sites

How to add a private expanse to new Google Sites or allow specific users to edit specific pages (page-level permissions)?

New Google Sites does not offer page-level permissions so you can only add editors to the entire site non private pages. You tin can make separate sites with separate permissions and then add the link of the sites with differing permissions. To see how to set the permissions to the published site come across Publish Sites and to run into how to add together links to the navigation see Add together Links to Navigation - New Google Sites.

How to find a new Google Site?

Yous should be able to see it at either https://sites.google.com/new or in your Google Drive (if you cannot see it in Drive do this search type:site). Make certain yous're signed in with the same account that you created the site with and check your spider web browser's browsing history to see if you can get back to the site from information technology listed there.

If you're trying to find a single location that lists all of your published sites then this is not something that new Google Sites offers - see: Compare classic to new Sites

How exercise I recover deleted Google Sites?

  1. Open your Trash/Bin folder in Google Bulldoze

  2. Select the delete site and use the Restore button (or right-click to open up the context menu and Restore )

  3. The site will announced back in My Drive where y'all stored it (if you lot cannot find it search in Google Drive for blazon:site to run into all of your new Google Sites)

Recover a deleted new Google Site

Restore a deleted Google Site from Drive trash

How exercise I add a tabular array to new Google Sites?

New Google Sites does not offer tables at the moment but you can make nice looking tables in Google Drawings and then add together to your site using the From Drive choice in the Insert panel, encounter an case table from Google Drawings below. If you're more adventurous and desire to add your ain HTML lawmaking to add a table you lot can practise that also - run into: Insert HTML Tables - new Google Sites.

Be aware that since this is an embedded item the table itself volition not linearise as the site responds to unlike device screen sizes and will not get indexed in search, but when viewing on a mobile device (or a size that makes the table also small to read) Google Sites provides a link in the pinnacle right corner of the cartoon to the full version so users can zoom in and out etc.

Sharing, Permissions and Visibility

1 You can use the Publishing option to become a similar characteristic

2 You tin only publish the whole site, not individual pages, and you tin can only publish to the primary domain, not any secondary domains.

3 Yous can only have ane owner of a site and domain admins are non automatically owners of sites

iv If you utilize Google Workspace you can publish the site internally then share with the view permission externally via a Google Drive folder and the external viewers tin can see the published site.

5 Team Drives are only available to Google Workspace Business and Enterprise customers.

∢ Google has announced that the following features will get available for new Google Sites:

  • Restrict access to published sites

  • More granular access to different sections of sites

see An update on the classic Google Sites deprecation timeline for the exact wording.

How do I sign in to my new Google Site to edit information technology?

If you visit your site's published address, while y'all are signed in to an editor account , you volition see a pencil icon in the bottom right corner. If you cannot come across the pencil icon you are non signed in to the right account or multiple accounts.

Alternatively you can use the techniques mentioned higher up in How do I find my Google Site? to find your site.

Edit a new Google Site

How do I copy a new Google Site or a page, or make a template?

New Google Sites offers the Indistinguishable site characteristic and we offer total instructions on how to do and so see: Re-create Site - New Google Sites.

How exercise you edit a new Google Site offline or on a mobile?

New Google Sites does not offering a mobile app for editing nor does it off offline editing in new Google Sites.

New Google Site Search results appear as "no results match your search" - how do I set up that?

We have suffered this issue to and here are the steps we took to fix the issue:

  1. Unpublish the site (this is just temporary)

  2. Look x minutes (if you do not wait 10 minutes it can cease your images working on your site - yeah we had this result too)

  3. Publish the site over again

That's it! If you still have the issue and you apply Google Workspace Basic/Business organisation or for Didactics you lot can contact Google Support to get direct back up from Google.

How tin I build a site map with new Google sites?

The new version of Google Sites does not offer an XML sitemap nor any style to host an externally created XML sitemap. A website does not need to add a sitemap for Google Search to index all of its pages: Google Search Panel but uses an XML sitemap to help find pages that yous want indexed that aren't linked from anywhere else; if all of your pages are linked from the navigation or from other pages Google Search will find them and an XML sitemap will not improve anything.

How can I insert an Organization Chart or a Directory in new Google Sites?

We take developed a third-political party Google Apps Script that uses your user information in Google Workspace to create instant org charts and a searchable directory that you can embed in your public website or private intranet or a Google Site.

  • Search by name, email or skills

  • Find your teammates past section, team, projection or job title search

  • Summary of work anniversaries and birthdays of your colleagues and coworkers over the side by side 14 days

  • Automatic organisational charts and organigrams to run into where people fit in the structure

If y'all use Google Workspace and want a searchable directory and instant org charts for your intranet or Google Site then Steegle People for Google Workspace could exist for you lot. For more than information and Pricing see:

Search for employees, coworkers and colleagues and see where they fit in the organization structure with Steegle People for G Suite

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