SEO Settings for Page and Project

What’s the use of a website if nobody can find it on Google? Here, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is vital for your online visibility. However, to make sure your site appears in the search results, it is not enough to use the right keywords in your content. 

Boxmode provides you with everything you need to optimize your online presence. It has SEO tools for individual pages as well as the entire project. Let’s take a closer look at both.

Project SEO settings

You can access your project’s SEO settings in the dashboard. Go to the Projects section and click on the ellipsis icon next to the required project. In the context menu, hit Project Settings. 

Scroll down to the SEO section. Here you can find the following SEO tools:

• Robots.txt
  Generate a file that provides search robots with recommendations as to which pages to crawl. You can learn more about robots.txt in our blog article. 
• Sitemap.xml
  Generate a file that contains the information for search engines about pages that need indexing. Find out more about sitemap.xml in our blog article.

On-Page SEO settings

Apart from the page’s general settings, you can also control the page’s SEO settings. To access them, open the dropdown menu in the top panel, сlick on the ellipsis icon next to the name of the selected page, and choose Settings in the context menu.

In the opened menu, select the SEO tab. There you will find the following settings:

• Page title
  This is your page’s name that appears in search results as a clickable link and in browser tabs. It must be concise (30-70 characters) and informative, giving visitors and search engines a clear idea about the page’s content. Don’t forget to introduce a relevant keyword in your title tag to make it searchable.
• Description
  This is a summary of the content presented on the page (160 characters max). It appears in search results right below the title, providing users with more details about the content they can find on the page. Using keywords in the description can help you boost your page’s visibility. 
• Keywords
  These are words and phrases that characterize the page’s content. They are relevant to what people are searching for in Google. You can enter several short- and long-tail keywords (separated by comma) that define what content on the page is about. This can help you increase your position in search results.
• Canonical link
  If the page is very similar or identical to another page on your website, you can insert the URL of the master page in the field. This way, you tell search engines they should consider this page as the authoritative source. This helps you avoid the issues with duplicate content, which can undermine your website ranking. 
• Block search indexing
  Web robots (search engine crawlers) inspect a lot of web pages and index content on them. In such a way, they gather data from the site and service it to users. Toggle the switch on if you don’t want web robots to index the page. As a result, it won’t appear in search results. 
• Disallow crawling links
  This option restricts search engines from crawling the links on the page. Toggle the switch on if you don’t want search robots to scan/follow the links on the page (for example, when you are not sure of their trustworthiness).

Don’t forget to configure the SEO settings for individual pages and the entire project to ensure your website remains visible online all the time.

We hope this post helped you understand how you can adjust SEO settings for pages and projects.

Now, it’s time to review SEO settings.

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