Pages

Pages

Every website has multiple pages that give out specific information and engage the audience in different ways. On Zoho Sites, you can easily build these pages, as well as an audience and community. Any website theme you choose on Zoho Sites will come with three pages by default. You can add more pages or remove them as per your convenience.
  1. Click the hamburger  icon and choose Pages under Dashboard. 
  2. You will see the list of your website pages here, which you can choose to edit by clicking Edit page info. When you click on it, you will see a page with many options to tweak the page details. 

Let's find out more about the edit page options. 


General

Under the General section, you can mention primary page details, such as Page Name and Page URL.


  1. Enter your Page name and Page URL (you can use the suggested URL or enter your own).
  2. Click on Set as home page toggle if you prefer the page to be the first one your visitors will see.
  3. Click Save at the bottom of the page.
After entering essential page details under the General section, you can move to the next section. 

SEO

Our efficient built-in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool helps increase the chances of your webpage ranking on top in search results.  




  1. Select the SEO tab (or if you scroll down the page, find it below the general section).
  2. Enter a title for the page. This will be the title or headline that appears in the search engine results.
  3. In the Keywords section, enter words and phrases (separated by commas) that your visitors might use to find your site.
  4. Add a page description in the Description box.
  5. Under Robots, select one of the options using the checkboxes. The noindex tag tells search engines not to display the page in search results. The nofollow tag tells search engines not to follow the links on the page.The noarchive tag tells search engines not to store a cached copy of the page.
  6. Click the Sitemap XML toggle to allow search engines to crawl and index your pages easily.
  7. Select the appropriate Change frequency from the drop-down list. This value enables crawlers to become alert every time the page content is changed and published.
  8. Click Priority to set up the page priority within the site. If your page has high priority content, then you can assign a greater value of priority.
Notes: Click the Sitemap XML toggle to select the frequency and priority of your page. The frequency indicates how periodic your page edits are. The page with higher priority will have better chances of getting indexed in search results above other pages of your site.

Page details

Make edits to your banner, menu, and sidebar settings in this section. 
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Banner 
The banner area (also known as the hero section) is where you can display important content. The banner appears on every page of your site when you select Yes. You can also choose to show a page-specific hero banner.

Menu
The menu helps with page navigation. Users can click the tabs to access other pages on your site. Similar to the banner, the menu appears site wide when you select Default to site preferences setting. Select Yes to show the menu on this specific page. 

Sidebar
The sidebar is an area on the side of the page where you add important content, such as menus or accompanying text. The page-specific sidebar can be used to add content specific to a different page. Click Yes to enable this.  

Social preview image


Social preview images are displayed when you share a URL of your website or webpage through any social media platform. You can set a site level image, which will be displayed when the URL of your site is shared. You can also set a page-level image which can be set to give visitors context of what the page is about when that particular URL is shared.
Use this option to add codes such as Google Analytics, Snippets, and Translator widgets from third-party providers.



To add header or footer code:
  1. Click the Header or Footer Code from the menu on the top.
  2. Paste the code in the header or footer section, based on your requirement. 
  3. Click Save.

Hide a page menu

  1. Access Configuration -> Site Options.
  2. Select Preferences from the options on the top of the builder.
  3. Click Hide for the Menu option.
  4. Click Save.


Create a subpage

You can create subpages to form page hierarchy within your site.
  1. Go to Configuration -> Menus.
  2. Drag and drop the page to the right of the desired parent page.
  3. Click Save.




Notes: You can have up to three levels of subpages with an unlimited amount of pages within.

Reorder pages

  1. Access Configuration -> Menu.
  2. Click and hold the page name, then drag and drop pages in your preferred order.
  3. Click Save at the bottom of the screen.




Hide Pages

This option will help you hide pages from your menu without deleting those pages.

  1. Go to Configuration -> Menus.

  2. Click the Delete option to the right of the menu item you would like to delete.

  3. Click Delete.



The page will not be deleted, but it will be hidden from the menu.

Unhide a page

  1. Go to Configuration -> Menus.

  2. Click Add Menu Item above the listed menu.

  3. Enter a name for the menu item and select a page.

  4. Click Save.