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Set a page's SEO title and description

This guide shows you how to set what search engines and social sites show for a page — its title and description — right from the page editor. You do this per page, whenever you want to control how a page looks in a search result or a shared link.

Who can do this: Admins who can edit pages (the website:edit permission). The SEO fields follow page editing: if you can open the page editor but its fields are read-only, you don’t have page-edit permission. The separate website:configure-seo permission covers the site-wide SEO settings page, not these per-page fields.

Before you start

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  • Open the page in the page editor. You can set SEO on a draft or a published page.

Steps

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  1. Open the page you want to edit in the page editor.
  2. Select Page actions, then Page settings. The Page settings dialog opens.
  3. Scroll to the SEO section.
  4. In Meta title, type the title you want search engines and shared links to show. Leave it empty to use the page’s own title.
  5. In Meta description, type a short summary of the page — a sentence or two. Leave it empty to use the page’s first paragraph.
  6. Select Close when you’re done.

Setting a social (Open Graph) image, a canonical URL, or keeping a page out of your sitemap isn’t available yet — the SEO section has only Meta title and Meta description.

There’s no Save button in this dialog. MapleGather saves your changes automatically as you go.

Verify

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You’ll know it worked when a Saved note shows near the page title. After you publish the page, the title and description you set here are what search engines and social sites show for it.

If something goes wrong

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  • The SEO fields are greyed out — you don’t have permission to edit this page, so the whole Page settings dialog is read-only. Ask an admin who can edit pages.
  • You’re on a phone — the page settings open read-only on a small screen. Open the page on a larger screen to change its SEO.
  • A “Couldn’t save — retrying” message appears — the save didn’t go through and MapleGather is retrying it a few times. Your edits are still on screen. If the retries also fail, the note changes to Not saved and an error says “We couldn’t save your changes. Your edits are still here — try again.” Select Retry save.
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