Adding your site to the Google Search Console
Add your site to Google Search Console (GSC) to be able to track its performance in search, request site indexation and manage different site URLs. Watch our quick video guide on how to add your site to Google Search Console: Firstly, go to Google Search Console and click Start Now.Popular"Nofollow" for links
Some readersSetting redirects
The redirects may be used when you want to send traffic from any outdated URLs on your site to the new page. This option automatically sends site visitors to a different URL than the one they originally typed into their browser or selected from a search engine results page. It also redirects the search engines to crawl and index the newest page.Some readersSetting the hreflang attribute for pages
The hreflang attribute helps search engines (such as Google) to find other language versions of the current page on a multilingual site. Thus, a search engine understands that several pages are alternative and are written in different languages. It allows search engines to display pages in the search results in the most convenient language for the client. It can increase your conversion and reduce bounce rate, as your target audience will land on the most appropriate page's language version forSome readersAdding page title and description (meta tags)
Site title and description (meta tags) are HTML tags that give search engines more information about what the page is about. These are displayed on the search results pages in Google, Bing, etc.: It's generally recommended to add a unique page title and description for each page you’ve got. To set up the meta tags, open the site's editor and navigate to the pages menu in the toolbar: (https://Some readersChanging page URL
Each page on the site has a unique URL which it can be accessed with. By default, the page name in the editor becomes its URL. You can change the default subdomain in the URL to match your brand. Сlick on the pages menu on the top panel of site editor: Select the page and open its Settings: (httpSome readersSEO Basics
SEO is a complex of actions you undertake to promote the site in the search engines. The result of the SEO mainly depends on the time and efforts invested, and it's never actually over. However, with the help of the tools available at you can set up and maintain all the needed SEO settings for your website. Why is it so important to optimize your site for search engines?Some readersSite indexing
The search engines look for the information to a query in their index of sites, not the actual sites. Thus, getting into the index is super important for your SEO optimization.Some readersAdding H1, H2... tags to the text
The H1 heading tag acts as the title of each page — therefore, you should add only one H1 tag per page of your site. The H2 tag is commonly used for subheadings, which can be placed as section titles. The H3 tag is supposed to define tSome readersAdding a canonical link
A canonical link (rel = canonical element) helps to define a "preferred" page version if certain pages were duplicated. In this case search engines will only crawl and index the specified page version.Few readersSetting SEO region for site language versions
SEO region is a recommendation for search engines (like Google) to display pages in a particular language in a specific region for those users who speak that language. If you have created a multilingual site, if necessary, you can specify the SEO region for each site's language version. For example, if you have a language version in the German language, you can select for search engines which region this languaFew readersHiding a page from search engines
All Pro sites created on are set to be indexed by the search engines. However, in case you have a particular page that is not ready yet or there is copy-pasted content which you don’t want to show to the web crawlers and customers, you can manually hide this page from search engines.Few readersAccessing the sitemap
A sitemap is a list of pages present on your website which you can submit to the search engines. This list serves as a guide for the search engines for better understanding the structure of your website, and ultimately — for easier SEO.Few readersHiding website from search engines
All Pro sites created on are set to be indexed by the search engines by default. However, in case you want to block your website from indexing by search engines and appearing in the search results, you can manually do this in the settings. (https://support.devellp.com/en-us/article/site-indexing-gtvruw/) Firstly, go to the Settings oFew readersAdding Schema.org markup
Schema.org is a semantic vocabulary of schemas for structured data markup supported by major search engines. In simple words, this on-page markup helps search engines understand the information on web pages and display it in a useful, relevant way. Top search engines – including Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Yandex – officially recognize this type of markup as preferred, as it helps their search crawlers to index, organize, and display your content. Besides, schema markup creFew readersAdding alt-text to images
Alt-text is the image description that allows search engines to understand the nature or contents of an image. It is not displayed on the live site and is not visible to your visitors. Firstly, click on the image itself aFew readersAdding "www" redirect
The "www" in the URL is a standard prefix for one's public website. According to the SEO purposes, it is preferable to show a website only under http://www.example.com or http://example.com, not both URLs. Otherwise, search engines see duplicate content on the "www" and "non-www" domains and may downgrade the site ranking. https:/Few readersAccessing robots.txt
Google uses software known as web crawlers that look at webpages and follow links on those pages to bring data about them back to Google’s servers. A robots.txt file tells these crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site. (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro) See how you can access your robots.txt file for thFew readers