Set Search Engine Properties
You can provide keywords and text to help search engines identify the content of the site.
Option | Site Level | Page Level |
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Description or Page Description |
Provides general information about the site that isn’t included in the site itself. The site description is included on each page in the site This description is also used as the page-level description for the home page only if there’s no value set using Page Settings for the home page. |
Provides general information about the page that isn’t included in the page itself. The page description is in addition to the site description included with every page in the site. |
Keywords |
Identifies terms or concepts that apply to all pages on the site. These values are added (appended) to the keywords specified for individual pages. |
Identifies terms or concepts that apply to the individual page. Page keywords may be useful to identify terms or concepts that don’t appear in the text of the page or that appear in images. |
Header or Page Header |
Add scripting or tags for analytics or tracking to your site. The site header content is included on each page in the site. |
Add scripting or tags for analytics or tracking to your site. The page header content is in addition to the site header content included on each page. |
Footer or Page Footer |
Add scripting or tags for analytics or tracking to your site. The site footer content is included on each page in the site. |
Add scripting or tags for analytics or tracking to your site. The page footer content is in addition to the site footer content included on each page. |
If you select the following search exclusion options at the site level, the setting applies to all pages and overrides the setting on the individual pages. If you don’t select the option at the site level, then only those pages that individually specify the option use the option.
Option | Site Level | Page Level |
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Hide from search engines |
If selected, add the NOINDEX meta tag to every page so that search engines won’t index the content of any page on the site. In this case, the site and all its pages won’t shown up in the web search results. |
If selected, add the NOINDEX meta tag to the current page so that search engines won’t index the content of the page. In this case, the individual page won’t shown up in the web search results. |
Hide page links from search engines |
If selected, add the NOFOLLOW meta tag to every page so that search engines won’t follow links (and then index the destination) on any page on the site. |
If selected, add the NOFOLLOW meta tag to the current page so that search engines won’t follow links (and then index the destination) on the page. |
Hide page descriptions from search engines |
If selected, add the NOSNIPPET meta tag to every page so that search engines won’t include the description (specified above) after the page in the search results. |
If selected, add the NOSNIPPET meta tag to the current page so that search engines won’t include the page description (specified above) after the page in the search results. |
To change search engine optimization (SEO) settings: