Menu, order and search engines
In the Pages list you set the order of the menu. For each page you set its name, whether it is visible and what Google shows.
Order in the menu
- Go to Pages.
- Grab a page by the dots and drag it to a different place. Drag it onto another page to place it underneath (submenu).
- Click Save order. The menu goes online straight away; there is no need to publish.
Page settings
Click the gear next to a page in the list, or the gear at the top of the page itself. There you will find:
- General: the name of the page (also the name in the menu) and which page it sits under.
- Link: the last part of the web address, and whether this is the homepage.
- Visibility: make a page hidden. It is then not on your website or in the menu (nor are the pages below it), but it stays saved in the CMS. This is also where you choose whether the page appears in the menu.
- Findability: the title and description that Google shows, and the Image when shared: the photo that appears when someone shares the page (WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook) and when you add the page to a newsletter. One photo applies to all languages. If you do not choose a photo, the CMS automatically uses the first photo on the page, and if the page has no photo, your logo on a white background. You can see straight away which photo it will be. Landscape photos work best (1200 × 630 pixels). With Hide from search engines you keep a page out of Google.
- Info (on the right, small): status, web address, when the page was last changed, and earlier versions you can restore; see Restoring an earlier version.
Does your website have more than one language? Then the languages for name, web address and Google title are shown directly below each other, with NL, EN and so on after them. For the Google description, click the language tab above the box. Save saves all languages at once.
A good title and description for Google
- Title: 65 characters at most. Say what the page offers and, if it fits, your location.
- Description: about 150 characters (the counter below the box helps; above 160 it turns red). What will visitors find here, and why should they click?
- Give every page its own description.
Save changes to the page settings with Save; then publish.