Is Instagram, a Facebook Page, or LINE enough as your website?
Customers really have stopped reading the “fresh ingredients, lovely atmosphere” paragraph a shop writes about itself. They want to see what it is actually like. We agree — which is why the details, ratings, reviews, and photos on a Tiama website come from your Google Maps business data rather than from adjectives you wrote. Social gets you discovered; this website is what people see once they look you up.
This page describes what the three platforms let you put on a profile used as a website, and what a Tiama website does instead — all of it checkable by opening your own account or the demo page, so nothing here rests on outside reporting or third-party ranking data. Platform features change; this page was checked on 26 August 2026. Tell us if anything here is out of date or wrong.
Is X (formerly Twitter) in your Google Maps website field instead? Read: Can X stand in for a website?
Search behaviour changed, but only halfway
Someone searching for brunch nearby does not want to read the shop calling its own ingredients fresh. They want to see what people who actually went say, and what it looked like. That is true, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Once a video or a photo lands, the next move is checking what time it closes, roughly what it costs, and how to get there. That answer is usually not in the video — and people normally look for it only once.
The rating, reviews, photos, and opening hours on the website are imported from your Google Maps business data, and even the intro copy is drafted from your real customer reviews. You can edit all of it, but you do not start from a blank box or from your own adjectives.
Three steps to add the website social is missing
- 1Search for your business
Search for your shop on the home page and pick it from the list. No sign-up and no payment needed to see the result.
- 2Let your customers write the intro
Details, opening hours, rating, reviews, and photos are imported automatically, and the AI drafts the introduction from your real customer reviews rather than inventing a paragraph of praise. You adjust it afterwards.
- 3Publish, then paste the address back into social
Once published the address looks like yourshop.tiama.page. Put it in your Instagram bio, the website field on your Page, your LINE menu, and the website field on your Google Business Profile, so every route lands on the same answers.
Side by side
| Feature | Tiama | Instagram / Facebook Page / LINE Official Account |
|---|---|---|
| Where the content comes from | Imported from your Google Maps business data: details, opening hours, rating, reviews, and photos, with the intro drafted by AI from your real customer reviews | You shoot it, write it, and arrange it yourself, starting from an empty post |
| The reviews customers see | A dedicated section shows your Google reviews and star rating, with you choosing which ones appear | Praise is scattered across comments, tags, and stories; a new customer will not scroll back three months to find it |
| The things people always ask (hours, prices, address) | One fixed page with services, pricing, opening hours, and common questions in their own sections, editable any time | Written inside a post or a story highlight, pushed further down every time you post again |
| Address | A free address such as yourshop.tiama.page, ready to drop into the website field on your Google Business Profile | A platform-assigned account URL that also works in the Business Profile website field — but what shows after someone clicks is up to the platform |
| What search engines and AI can read | The website also carries a copy of your details that search engines and AI can read — name, address, phone, what time you open on each day, star rating, and review count — so search engines and AI never have to guess them from the text | The platform controls the layout and the markup; the words in a post are readable, but “what time it opens on Wednesday” is never marked up as a field |
| How it treats your social accounts | That copy of your details for search engines and AI states that your Instagram, Facebook, and website belong to the same shop, so the website vouches for those accounts rather than replacing them | Each account stands alone, leaving customers to piece them together |
| Getting in touch on a phone | A persistent bottom bar on mobile with LINE, WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, or Messenger, plus call, Google Maps directions, and a booking link | Only that platform's own messaging; calling and directions are for the customer to dig out of the bio |
| Languages | You choose the website language, from a list maintained against the languages Google Maps supports | One account, one language; serving visitors from abroad means running another account |
| Shop announcements | Built into the premium plans, with a display window, time zone, and ordering, shown as a floating card on the website | A post or a story; a holiday-closure notice stays up until you remember to delete it |
| Analytics | Built into the premium plans: views, visitors, contact-button taps, where visitors came from, devices, and countries | Platform insights show reach and engagement, but not how many people tried to contact you |
| Price | Free |
When a social account is all you need
Social is not Tiama's rival. It owns the getting-discovered part, and does it better than any shop website can. In the situations below we would tell you to keep your effort there.
- Your business is the content itself — styling, photography, craft, cooking classes. People follow a stream that keeps updating, not a fixed introduction.
- You have no physical shop, so there is no Google Maps business profile to build from.
- Almost all your customers arrive through stories and DMs, and nobody has ever found you by searching.
- You have the hands to post every day, and to keep hours and prices sitting in the first story highlight.
- What you need is a cart and checkout, not a page that introduces you.
When adding a Tiama website pays off
Tiama is built for small physical shops — your details are already on Google Maps, and what is missing is a website you can hand to a customer and that search engines and AI can read.
- Customers DM you every day asking whether you are open, what it costs, and how to get there, and you would rather not type the same reply again.
- Your Google reviews are good, but that praise sits on Google and appears on no website you can show anyone.
- You want one fixed address for your Instagram bio, your LINE menu, your business card, and your Business Profile.
- You want search engines and AI to read more than a photo — your hours, your address, your rating.
- You are not leaving social. You just want one page that finishes the conversation after someone looks you up.
Common questions
I already have Instagram and a Facebook Page. Do I need this too?
They do different jobs. Social gets you discovered; a Tiama website gives the people who already noticed you the answers — when you open, where you are, what it costs, what others said. And the website tells search engines and AI that it and your Instagram and Facebook are all the same shop, so it vouches for those accounts rather than taking traffic from them.
Isn't everyone on social now instead of websites?
Discovery really has moved towards social, and this page is not going to argue with that. The difference is the step after it: once a video catches someone, they still check the hours, the address, and the price. That answer is hard to find inside a three-month-old post and easy to find on a website that stays put.
Isn't a Tiama website just the shop praising itself again?
The content has a different source. Details, opening hours, rating, reviews, and photos are imported from your Google Maps business data, and the AI drafts the introduction from your real customer reviews rather than from invented adjectives. You can edit it, but you start from what customers said about you.
Do all my Google reviews get copied onto the website?
They are imported, and then you pick which ones to feature. The reviews themselves stay on Google; the website shows the ones you chose. The star rating and review count are also included in the copy of your details that search engines and AI can read, which helps search engines and AI understand your business.
A LINE Official Account has its own address and shows up in search. What's the difference?
It does, and this page is not claiming social profiles cannot be found. The difference is what you may put on one: LINE decides which fields exist, so you cannot add service categories, a price list, or common questions, and you cannot set the title and description shown in search results. On a Tiama website all of that is yours.
Do I have to type everything in again?
No. Search for your business and Tiama imports the details, opening hours, reviews, and photos, drafts them with AI, and waits for you to review and edit before anything is published.
What does it cost?
The free plan builds one shop website, lets you edit it yourself, and publishes it at an address such as yourshop.tiama.page. Solo keeps that one website and adds every premium feature: monthly review and photo refreshes, announcements, analytics, and no small print in the footer. Pro raises that to up to three shop websites, refreshed up to three times a month. Monthly prices are in the table above, shown in your local currency.
Keep social. Add a website people can look up.
Search for your business and see the draft. No sign-up, no payment. Decide afterwards.
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