By Onelios · Reviewed
To build a website with AI, supply your real business details, generate a draft, correct its claims, publish it, and test it as a customer. The AI can propose wording and services. It cannot know which qualifications you hold, what work you accept, or whether a phone number is correct unless you provide and check that information.
- What you need: your business name, what you do, and your city or service area. An email address is needed only when you publish.
- Cost: building and publishing on Onelios are free right now, with no card. Connecting a domain you already own is also free right now; buying and renewing it are separate costs.
- Editing: after publishing, you can change your text, services, contact details and photos from the dashboard.
Check that this is the kind of website you need
This workflow suits a small business that needs to explain its services, show contact details and receive inquiries. Onelios also supports appointment requests and customer reviews. It does not provide an online shop with product checkout or a way to build a custom web application. Check the current features and limits before moving an existing workflow here.
If you are comparing AI website builders, check four things first: whether you can publish free, whether connecting your own domain costs extra, how much control you need over the layout, and whether you need checkout or an app. The homepage's comparison of what “free” includes sets Onelios beside other builders on publishing and domains, with the date those terms were checked. If you need a custom app with its own logic, a tool that turns a prompt into an app will fit better than a guided website builder like this one.
1. Prepare your business details
Open the website builder. Enter your business name, select what you do, and name the city or service area. If your trade is not listed, choose “Another kind of business” and describe it in words a customer would use. Add your real business phone number if you want a call button.
Describe your website is optional, with room for up to 1,200 characters. Use it to name your real services, the customers you serve and the tone you want. Under Try a starter prompt, choose Explain my services, Get quote requests or Appointment requests if you need a starting point. Choosing one replaces the current brief, so edit it before building.
Quillridge Lawn Care
- Business name: Quillridge Lawn Care
- What do you do? Landscaping
- City or service area: Springfield, IL
- Phone and profile link: leave blank for this demonstration.
This is an invented business for explaining the process, not a customer testimonial or a business you should contact. The product check below used these details without an optional brief. Use your own details when creating a real site. For a real lawn or landscaping business, see what a landscaping website on Onelios includes.
“We offer lawn mowing and hedge trimming for residential yards in Springfield, IL. Keep the wording friendly and plain. Invite customers to describe the job for a quote. Do not offer hardscaping, irrigation or emergency visits.”
This suggested brief was not used for the recorded product check. Use it only if those facts describe your business. The brief guides the draft's wording and service suggestions; it does not add a custom layout, payment system or other feature. It is not displayed as a separate section on the public website, but facts you include can appear in the generated copy. Keep private information out.
Be specific about the place: “Springfield, IL” is clearer than “Springfield” because several states have a Springfield. The optional Google Business, Instagram or Facebook link is displayed in the site's footer. Adding it does not import your existing website, read your profile, or connect those accounts.
Keep a short fact sheet beside the preview
The trade you choose is a starting point, not your complete service list. Before reviewing the draft, write down what a customer actually needs to decide:
- Work you accept: the services you offer, and common jobs you do not take.
- Where you work: your real area, plus any travel or access limits a customer should know.
- How to inquire: whether you need a conversation, a quote request or a fixed appointment first.
- Evidence you can supply: your own work photos, genuine customer feedback and qualifications you can substantiate.
Use those facts to write the brief and check the resulting draft. Missing facts are a reason to ask the owner, not a reason for the AI to invent a confident answer.
2. Build and inspect the draft
Select Build my free website. Onelios uses your answers to prepare a preview with a heading, an introduction and suggested services. Use the Desktop and Mobile tabs to inspect both layouts. The address shown inside the preview is not evidence that the site has been published.
The Writing your website draft screen means generation is still in progress. Wait for the result before judging the copy. If you go back and change your business details or brief, build a new draft from those answers before publishing.
In our product check on , we entered the fictional details above, with no brief, into a private test copy of Onelios that uses the same AI model as the live site, with email switched off. The draft was labeled “Written by AI from your answers” and proposed the headline “Landscaping and lawn care for Springfield yards” and six services: Lawn Care, Garden Design, Hardscaping, Irrigation, Tree & Hedge and Seasonal Cleanup. Those suggestions came from a broad trade choice, not from evidence that this business offers each service. Your output may differ.
An AI-generated draft contains newly generated wording. If the AI cannot complete the request, Onelios can show a starter draft instead. It is a starting point to inspect, not proof that AI has written something specific for you.
Use Write it again to try generation again. If a rewrite fails, the previous draft and manual service edits remain unchanged; the status says so. If the first build produced no usable draft, retry before publishing. Do not publish services or claims simply because they appeared in a starter.
3. Make the words accurate before publishing
Open Adjust logo, wording or services and uncheck anything you do not offer. For a business entered under “Another kind of business”, check or enter the service names yourself; at least one is required before publishing. You can also use Tell the AI what to change for a specific revision.
“Keep only lawn care and hedge trimming. Remove claims about qualifications, prices and emergency availability.”
Read the changed draft again. Check your name, service area, actual services, contact details, working hours and any promise about price or timing. Remove invented awards, years of experience and reviews. Add photos of your own work from the dashboard after publishing; a generic image is not evidence of a job you completed.
Vague: “Quality lawn and yard solutions for all your needs.”
More useful, if true: “Lawn mowing and hedge trimming in Springfield, IL. Tell us your yard size, the work needed and how we can access it so we can discuss a quote.”
This is an illustrative edit for the fictional business, not an observed AI output. It names the work, the place and the information needed next. It avoids inventing a price, completion time or qualification. Apply that same check to each service instead of making every description longer.
4. Publish and secure your account
When the preview is ready, enter an email address you control and select Publish my site — free. If you are already signed in, the site belongs to that account. New owners can reach the dashboard after publishing; an existing account may require its sign-in link before you can continue.
Use the email link to prove that you own the address. A password is optional: email sign-in is supported, and the welcome link lets you choose a password. Verify your email before using the dashboard assistant or sending customer emails, review requests and booking confirmations. Preview revisions before publishing are a separate flow.
Copy the live address from your dashboard and open it in a separate browser window. Keep that address for your checks. Building and publishing are free right now, with no card; see what is included. You can edit the published site from the dashboard afterward.
5. Test the customer journey
A page that looks finished can still contain the wrong contact details or an unclear next step. Test your own published site before sharing it. Use your own contact details for test inquiries and label the message “Website test” so you can recognize it.
Your launch check
What counts as a working website?
- 1. A visitor can understand the offer
- Open the live address on your phone. Your business name, service and area should be clear before the visitor has to hunt for them. Read every service name; remove anything you do not provide.
- 2. Contact buttons reach the right business
- Tap the call button and inspect the number before calling. Open the profile link. Both must point to you, with no example number or unrelated profile left over.
- 3. A request survives beyond the success message
- Submit “Website test — please ignore” with your own contact details. In another tab, open Leads in the dashboard. The same name, contact details and message should appear there once.
- 4. You know whether email works
- Check your own mailbox and spam folder separately. If the lead exists but the email does not arrive, the request is still saved. Use the dashboard inbox while investigating email delivery.
- 5. Every page gives a clear next step
- Open a service page, then use its home link and inquiry button. Check for broken links, sideways scrolling and a form covered by another control.
In our product check on September 28, 2026, a test inquiry sent from the fictional Quillridge site's quote form appeared once in its dashboard Leads inbox, with the same name, contact details and message. Email sending was switched off for that check, and the dashboard's activity record said the request was saved to the leads inbox and the email notification was not sent. That check verified saving and honest failure handling; it did not verify live email delivery.
For appointments, save your days, hours, time zone, appointment length and days off in Booking. Check the offered times before inviting customers to use them. A request holds a slot; you initiate confirmation, by email when the customer supplied an address or by contacting a phone-only customer yourself. Onelios does not check Google or Apple calendars. Read the booking setup and limits before relying on it for scheduling.
Decide whether another page will help a customer
A separate service page is useful when it answers questions the homepage cannot cover clearly. For a lawn-care page, prepare the actual work included, what the customer should tell you about the yard, any access requirements, and how you agree on a quote. Add a photo of that work when you have one. A hedge-trimming page needs its own relevant details; replacing “lawn” with “hedge” throughout the same copy adds little.
The dashboard can create a page when you ask, and that action can publish it directly. Prepare your facts first and read the resulting public page promptly. Remove an inaccurate page rather than leave it published; do not assume an additional draft-approval screen appears. Start with one useful page and test its inquiry route before adding another. This follows Google's people-first content guidance: help a visitor complete a task, rather than writing to a target word count.
6. Connect a domain if you need one
The free Onelios address can be opened and shared directly, but customer sites at that address are marked noindex: search engines are instructed not to list them. This is different from a private site. Anyone with the address can still view it. Google explains this distinction in its noindex documentation.
To use a domain of your own, buy it separately from a registrar or use one you already own. Connecting it to Onelios is free right now; purchasing and renewing the domain are separate costs. Choose Use my own domain in the dashboard, enter the domain, and copy the DNS records shown there into your registrar's settings. Use your own displayed verification value, not a record copied from an example.
Wait for the connection checks and open the address yourself. “DNS is correct — finishing setup” means it is not ready to share yet. A working, verified custom domain can be eligible for search indexing; it does not guarantee inclusion, rankings or traffic. Improve the accuracy and usefulness of the website before adding more pages.
Replacing an existing website? Keep a copy of its important pages, photos and contact details before changing the domain connection. Connecting a domain does not import its old website or preserve its page addresses. For example, an old /services/lawn-care link may not match your new service page. Onelios has no owner control for redirecting old addresses to new ones. List the pages customers already use and check where each will lead before switching. If important addresses cannot be preserved, resolve that with support or your current provider first. Google's URL migration guidance explains why matching old and new addresses matters.
Check your website in your own Search Console account
Start after your custom domain is verified, its secure connection works and you have checked the website. If the domain screen says setup is unavailable or unfinished, resolve that first. Search Console verification proves ownership; it does not put a page into Google's index.
- Open Domain → Google Search Console in your Onelios dashboard. Copy the Exact property URL shown for your website.
- In Google Search Console, add a URL prefix property with that exact address and choose HTML tag. Keep the same HTTPS address and hostname, including any
www. - Copy only the value inside the tag's
contentquotes into Google verification code in Onelios and select Save verification code. Return to Google and choose Verify. Saving the code alone does not complete verification. - Open
/sitemap.xmlon your verified custom domain and check that its addresses belong to your website. It lists the live homepage and published service pages. You can submit that sitemap in your own Search Console property; submission does not guarantee indexing.
Keep the verification code saved while you use the property. Changing or removing your connected domain clears it, so check verification again after an address change. A Google Domain property instead requires DNS verification at your registrar. The shared /s/ address cannot use this setting, and verifying a free Onelios subdomain does not remove its noindex policy. Follow Google's ownership-verification instructions for the method you choose.
| What you want to know | What to check |
|---|---|
| Is the website working? | Open the public address while signed out and test its inquiry route. That checks the customer experience, not Google indexing. |
| Can Google access it? | Use URL Inspection's live test to check fetching and indexing restrictions such as noindex. Passing that test does not guarantee the page will be indexed. |
| Is the page indexed? | Read the indexed result in URL Inspection, including Google's selected canonical address. This is separate from the current live test. |
| Is it appearing in searches? | Look for recorded impressions and clicks in Search Console's Performance report. A working or indexed page does not promise traffic. |
Google documents what URL Inspection can and cannot tell you. You read those reports in your own Google account; Onelios does not fetch your search performance or track rankings for you.
If something does not work
| What you see | What to check next |
|---|---|
| The build button is unavailable | Add a name, choose a trade and enter a city. “Another kind of business” also needs a description of the business. |
| A starter appears or an AI change fails | Check the status message. Try Write it again when available, or make supported manual adjustments. A failed AI request does not mean your requested change was applied. |
| The email already has a website | Use the sign-in link for that account, then edit the existing site or choose to build another. Do not keep publishing to try to access it. |
| A sign-in or verification email is missing | Check the address and spam folder. Use the resend control if offered. If it still does not arrive, contact support rather than making another account. |
| No appointment times are offered | Check that availability is saved, the time zone is right, and the days are open. The quote form remains the route for arranging work when no times are available. |
| The custom domain does not load | Recheck the exact DNS records and the status on the domain screen. Correct DNS and a completed hosting connection are separate checks; contact support if setup stays unfinished. |
Common questions
Can the AI build the whole website for me?
It writes the draft: a heading, an introduction and suggested services from your answers. It cannot know which qualifications you hold or what work you accept, so check the services, contact details and claims before you publish.
Will my website appear on Google?
Not at the free Onelios address: it is marked noindex, which tells search engines not to list it. A working, verified custom domain can be eligible for search indexing, but that does not guarantee inclusion, rankings or traffic.
Can I use my own photos?
Yes. Add photos of your own work from the dashboard after publishing.
Can it take payments or run an online shop?
No. Onelios does not take payments or provide an online shop with product checkout. It is built for explaining your services, showing contact details, and receiving inquiries, appointment requests and reviews.
Product references and next steps
This is a guide to the current Onelios workflow, reviewed against the product on the date above. See the example business websites and current product capabilities. For review invitations after real work is complete, see how customer review collection works. Questions about your own account can go through support.
Start with a draft you can inspect. Build your website, check what it says, and publish when it accurately represents your business.