Monday, August 29, 2011

Google has been slowly rolling out their “Get Your Business Online”

 

Google has been slowly rolling out their “Get Your Business Online” free seminar/website initiative worldwide.  They first offered a similar program to SMBs in the UK in February 2010. Earlier this year, Google rolled out the program in Ireland and  Canada and apparently updated their UK program. Some of the programs have had some fine print but the most recent incarnations seem to offer real value for those businesses that want a minimal and easy to start web presence.

In July of this year Google offered up the first US based “Get Your Business Online” in Texas in conjunction with regional and national partners. Their national partners include Intuit, the Association of Small Business Development Centers, SCORE, and Meetup. The website offered as part of the package (with one year free domain) is a 3 page only version of Intuit’s Websites SiteBuilder. The Intuit commercial product is a 5 page site and costs $7.99/month.

Last week Google offered the seminar/free website program in Burlington and Rutland, Vermont. The kick off seminars in Vermont were done with a large number of not for profit agencies and business development groups including the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, the Vermont Small Business Development Center Network and others.

With the domains Texasgetonline.comVermontgetonline.com and on the ground programs in those two states it seemed possible that Google would be rolling the seminar and free website program nationwide on a state by state basis. On June 25, Google apparently transferred 100 domains to their servers in the format StateGetOnline.com & GetStateOnline for most of the 50 states and an additional overarching domain USGetOnline.com. While the move is certainly a defensive domain acquisition/protection strategy, it seems equally likely that free website program could soon be rolling out nationally.

Minimally the effort should put to rest speculation that Google just wants businesses to have a Places/Google+ pages on their servers and no independent web presence.

Here is a complete list of the domains transferred to Google at the end of June:
domain
alabamagetonline.com
alaskagetonline.com
americagetonline.com
arizonagetonline.com
arkansasgetonline.com
californiagetonline.com
carolinagetonline.com
carolinasgetonline.com
coloradogetonline.com
connecticutgetonline.com
dakotagetonline.com
dakotasgetonline.com
delawaregetonline.com
floridagetonline.com
georgiagetonline.com
getalabamaonline.com
getalaskaonline.com
getamericaonline.com
getarkansasonline.com
getcarolinaonline.com
getcarolinasonline.com
getcoloradoonline.com
getconnecticutonline.com
getdakotaonline.com
getdakotasonline.com
getdelawareonline.com
getgeorgiaonline.com
gethawaiionline.com
getidahoonline.com
getindianaonline.com
getiowaonline.com
getkentuckyonline.com
getlouisianaonline.com
getmaineonline.com
getmarylandonline.com
getmassachusettsonline.com
getmichiganonline.com
getminnesotaonline.com
getmississippionline.com
getmissourionline.com
getmontanaonline.com
getnebraskaonline.com
getnevadaonline.com
getnewhampshireonline.com
getnewjerseyonline.com
getnewmexicoonline.com
getnorthcarolinaonline.com
getnorthdakotaonline.com
getoregononline.com
getpennsylvaniaonline.com
getrhodeislandonline.com
getsouthcarolinaonline.com
getsouthdakotaonline.com
gettennesseeonline.com
getutahonline.com
getvermontonline.com
getvirginiaonline.com
getwestvirginiaonline.com
getwisconsinonline.com
getwyomingonline.com
hawaiigetonline.com
idahogetonline.com
illinoisgetonline.com
indianagetonline.com
iowagetonline.com
kansasgetonline.com
kentuckygetonline.com
louisianagetonline.com
mainegetonline.com
marylandgetonline.com
massachusettsgetonline.com
michigangetonline.com
minnesotagetonline.com
mississippigetonline.com
missourigetonline.com
montanagetonline.com
nebraskagetonline.com
nevadagetonline.com
newhampshiregetonline.com
newjerseygetonline.com
newmexicogetonline.com
newyorkgetonline.com
northcarolinagetonline.com
northdakotagetonline.com
ohiogetonline.com
oklahomagetonline.com
oregongetonline.com
pennsylvaniagetonline.com
rhodeislandgetonline.com
southcarolinagetonline.com
southdakotagetonline.com
tennesseegetonline.com
texasgetonline.com
usgetonline.com
utahgetonline.com
vermontgetonline.com
virginiagetonline.com
washingtongetonline.com
westvirginiagetonline.com
wisconsingetonline.com
wyominggetonline.com
 

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