Search engines & sharing
Control how your site appears in Google results and social shares, and whether it is listed at all.
Published sites get titles, structured data, a sitemap and share previews with no setup. To tune them, open Website → Site details → Search and sharing.
What search engines and shares show
- Meta title: the browser tab, search results and social shares. Blank uses your site title. About 60 characters works best (70 maximum).
- Meta description: the text under your title in search results. Blank uses your tagline. About 155 characters works best (200 maximum).
- Share image: your banner photo, or your logo without one. Both are uploaded under Design.
Put your town in the title and description ("Ardooie weather - live conditions & records"): most people find a station by searching for the weather somewhere.
Every published site also gets a /sitemap.xml and robots.txt (on your
custom domain too), structured data with your station's location, a canonical
URL, and a plain-text /llms.txt summary for AI assistants.
Keeping your site out of search engines
Turn on Keep this site out of search engines. The site stays reachable by anyone with the link, but search engines are asked not to list it. This works on every plan.
Drafts and sites with a lapsed trial or subscription show a Coming soon page and are never indexed.
The station showcase
Every published site is listed on the public station showcase, with its title, tagline and a link to your site, the station hardware, how the data arrives, and a coarse location: region and country, and a map marker rounded to about 10 km. Your exact coordinates are never shown.
To leave it, turn on Hide this site from the station showcase. This is independent of the search-engine switch: for a fully private site, turn on both.