Search engines like Google constantly crawl the internet in search of new data. Fine-tuning your SEO can help your site rank higher and attract more visitors.

From Eshop v14, Common Ground provides a handful of useful SEO tools, whether you want to hide or show a page online, change the page title, or simply optimize your content for better visibility.

Site settings: Site title and description are usually shown on search results, it is the most important content for your SEO as web users should be able to identify your site instantly.

Site images: A favicon and social images are available for your SEO. The favicon will usually be displayed in the URL bar next to your site title. For social media sharing the social image will be used.
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Site indexing: Indexing your site is necessary in order to appear in search engine results such as Google. By enabling this option you allow search engines to index your site by crawler the pages defined by the Robots.txt directives.

The robots.txt settings should usually allow all pages to ensure web crawlers understands the site's structure.

Each Article, Item or Collection has their own SEO settings.

To access these settings, click on the "SEO Settings" button for each page.

Index this page: Instructs search engines like Google to include this specific page in their search index.

Page Title: Allows you to specify the title that appears at the top of a browser window or tab when someone visits your Eshop. This title is also displayed as a clickable headline in search engine results.

URL slug: Allows you to customize the part of an article page’s URL that comes after the domain name. For example, in the URL www.common-ground.io/stores, the slug is stores.

Description: Also known as Meta Description. A brief summary the page's content that appears below the page title in search engine results.

Google Search Console is a free online tool from Google that helps website owners and developers analyze their website's performance in Google Search. It provides various features to monitor, maintain, and enhance a website's visibility in Google search results.

To use this tool, you must first add a property.

The verification tool will guide you through your domain provider to authorize the connection to Google Search Console. The process takes about a minute. If you've changed your primary domain in the Common Ground Backoffice within the last 10 minutes, the verification may fail. In that case, please wait a few minutes and try again.

Need more help? Here is how to add your domain to Google Search Console:
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SSL Certificates:

Setting up a new domain or transferring an existing one?

Common Ground automatically handles issuing and installing SSL Certificates on your primary domain during domain connection.