Set search titles and share images

Each page has a title and description that search engines show, and a picture that appears when someone shares the page.

Open a page's settings

1. Open Website, then choose Edit beside any page.

2. Choose Pages in the rail on the left.

3. Choose the page's actions button, then Page settings.

What you can set

• Search title: leave it empty to use the page name. We add your business name after it.

• Description: a sentence or two that tells people why to click. If you leave it empty, search engines pick text from the page.

• Share image: shown when someone shares this page. Leave it empty to use the page's main photo, or your logo. Wide photos look best, and a square photo may show with empty edges.

• Hide this page from search engines: they are asked to leave it out, and it's left out of your sitemap. Anyone with the link can still open it, and it can take a while to drop out of results. Hiding your home page takes your site's main page out of search results.

How it looks in search shows a preview as you type. Choose Save settings. A message confirms "Settings saved".

Change a page's address

Change address is in the same panel. The home page stays at /. Visitors to the old address go to the new one. See Redirect old web addresses for sending other old addresses to a page.

Site icon and share image for the whole site

In the Pages panel, open Site icon and share image. The site icon is the small picture in a browser tab. The share image is used when someone shares a page that has no share image of its own. These belong to the whole site, so they go live when you publish.