Marketing your site

Search Engine Optimization, Sitemaps, Google Analytics and Google Site verification and other options.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Google and other search engines need 'words' to find you, we show you where to add to help your site be indexed successfully.
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Written by Steve Johnstone. Updated over a week ago

Add a sitemap to Google Search Console

Add an automatically generated sitemap.xml file to Google Search Console to help with the indexing and verification of your site for SEO.
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Google Search Console site validation with https://

Users of Google Search Console will need to add your 'Property' as https:// as well as http:// and update your sites validation.
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Adding Google Analytics using Measurement ID

Introduced by Google late 2020 for adding their new and improved code for better statistics
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Popup Messages or Mailing List Subscriptions

Share important information with visitors to your site, or collect email addresses to add to your Mailing List subscribers in Workflow Inbox
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Adding Image Descriptions to images

By adding Image Description to your images you improve your website's accessibility and its search engine optimization (SEO).
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Create a Mailing List subscription form

Mailing Lists can be added to Custom Pages on all plans.
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Embedding a Mailchimp newsletter subscription form

Add a Mailchimp.com newsletter subscription form to your Format site.
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Changing images displayed on Facebook

When sharing a link to your site on Facebook the post automatically uses the set Cover Image.
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Changing images appearing on Linkedin

When sharing a link to your site on Linkedin the post automatically uses the set Cover Image.
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Adding Facebook Pixel code

Add the Facebook Pixel code to the <head> area of your Format site.
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Claiming you website with Pinterest

This does not make Pinterest 'pins' appear over images in your website.
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Written by Steve Johnstone. Updated over a week ago