Show up in search engines (SEO)

Search engines show a title and a short description for each page. You control the ones for your homepage and for each blog post.

Your website's title and description

1. Open Website > Edit website, then Site > Search and sharing.
2. Page title: what shows as the link in search results and in the browser tab. Put your name, what you shoot and where. For example: Jane Lee Photography, family and newborn photographer in Austin.
3. Description: one or two sentences, about 150 characters, that make someone want to click.
4. Click Publish at the top to put it live.

Search health

Site > Search health in the builder shows a short checklist (your site's name and description, your own photos, photo descriptions, the coming-soon page, descriptions on your own pages) with a Fix button beside anything left to do. There you can also:

• Give any page its own title and description for search results. Leave them empty to use the design's.
• Add redirects. Moving from another website? Send its old addresses (like /weddings-info) to your new pages so old links still land somewhere.
• Check my links finds buttons on your own pages that point at a page that doesn't exist, or at a website that doesn't answer.

Blog posts

Each post has its own Search engines box on the post's page:

• Title for search results: leave it empty to use the post's title.
• Description: leave it empty to use the post's short intro.

These save with the post's Save button.

What Flashslash does for you

• Your site has a sitemap listing your main pages (home, portfolio, services, about, contact, booking) and every published blog post, so search engines can find them.
• Your own domain helps people remember and find you. See Connect your own domain.

Tips

• Use the words people type, like "newborn photographer Austin", in your headline, About text and service descriptions, not only in the SEO box.
• Write photo captions in the website builder under Photos. They're used as captions and help describe your images.
• Blog posts about local places and sessions give search engines more to find. See Write a blog post.
• Search engines can take days or weeks to notice changes. That's normal.