Hi,
I’m completely new to Pinegrow and wanted to make sure that I was following best practice when building sites.
Am I right in thinking that the SEO details for each page are entered by clicking on the HTML for the page in the tree, then selecting Element Properties and then entering the details into the “Title”, “Description” and “Keywords” fields in the Page HTML section? Which of the two, “Description” and “Keywords”, is where you’d type the page meta description normally as it’s not clear to me?
Also, how do I prevent Google from crawling and indexing pages within PG, for example before the site is fully ready?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Welcome @BruceM, you are correct. Those properties will set the “meta” tags under the “head” tag of the page.
Apart from the basic details, you might want to do a quick google on other meta tags that are helpful with SEO, especially Open Graph image and other OG details, if you find them helpful for your use case.
Are you using Pinegrow Desktop or pinegrow online? Google crawler wouldn’t index pages when working within Pinegrow as it’s not deployed online yet.
If your question was about netlify test deploys that you publish from Pinegrow, for eg, my-site.netlify.app, then Google doesn’t crawl those sites.
Obviously when you go live using your own domain name, to stop crawling any preview deploys, for specific pages, you can use a noindex meta tag. Else, generally you add your page to a robots.txt in your base folder. Again, I would suggest searching online and explore the various options to choose what fits your needs.
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Hi @TechAkayy
Thanks very much for your help…much appreciated.
I’m using Pinegrow desktop and publishing to Netlify at the moment, but want to use a custom domain. I’ll do as you suggested and research the noindex metatag and robots.txt options online.