SEO
Control how your site appears in search results and on social media, verify search engines, and override metadata per page.
The SEO tab controls how your site appears in search results and when people share its links. Save changes with the floating Save site SEO bar at the bottom of the panel.
Social sharing
These values control the preview card that appears when your links are shared on social platforms.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| OG description | Up to 200 characters. The summary shown in share cards. Falls back to your site description when empty. |
| OG image | The image shown in share cards. 1200×630 is recommended. Pick from your Media Library. |
| Canonical base URL | The preferred base URL for your site. Leave empty to use your published URL automatically. |
Search engine verification
Paste the verification codes from each search provider to prove you own the site. Each field has a Get code link to the provider:
- Google Search Console
- Bing Webmaster
- Yandex Webmaster
What published sites do for search engines automatically
You don't configure any of this — it ships with every publish:
- A crawlable favicon, so your icon shows next to your result in Google.
- Fully pre-rendered pages on your own domain — crawlers get complete HTML rather than a page they'd have to run JavaScript to read.
- No competing mirror. Your
…genesis.estage.comaddress no longer competes with your custom domain in search results, so the ranking goes to your brand.
Per-page metadata
The Pages section lists the routes Genesis discovered in your site. For each page you can:
- Mark it Listed or Hidden.
- Override the Title (up to 90 characters).
- Override the Description (up to 200 characters) — used for both search results and social.
- Set a Social image (URL or pick from your Media Library).
- Choose a Robots rule: Default, No index, follow, No index, no follow, or None.
Tip
Leave per-page fields blank to inherit your site-level SEO. Only override the pages that need something different.