Being found by search engines
Every page and every product carries an SEO tab. What you type there does not appear on the page: it is what Google and the social networks read, and it decides whether someone clicks your link rather than the next one.
The three fields
- Title — the title shown in search results, around sixty characters. Do not repeat the site name in it: it is appended automatically.
- Description — the two lines of text under the title, about 150 characters. That is your pitch: describe what is on the page, not what you sell in general.
- Image — the thumbnail shown when the link is shared. Failing that, the social sharing image from your settings is used.
A preview shows, under the fields, what the result page will look like. If AI is enabled on your studio, a button generates the title and the description from the page content — in the language being edited only: switch to the other language to fill it in too. The result is a draft, to be re-read.
These fields are translated: a page in two languages has two titles and two descriptions. Left empty, the page title and the site description (General tab of the settings) take over.
What is automatic
- The sitemap (sitemap.xml) lists your published pages and products, in both languages, and updates itself. Search engines find it without you having to declare it.
- A draft is never indexed: only published content is visible to search engines.
- The two language versions of a page are declared as such, so the right result is served according to the visitor’s language.
Search ranking is finally decided elsewhere than in this tab: on the alternative text of your images, on pages that genuinely answer a question, and on a fast site — which the platform takes care of by compressing your images.