Website Builder

Set Up Menus, SEO and Redirects

Build your website's menus, tell search engines and social networks what each page is about, and keep old links working with redirects.

  • Works on every plan
  • About 15 minutes

Once your pages are built, three things help people find their way: menus that make sense, pages that search engines and social networks understand, and redirects that stop old links breaking.

Build your menus

  1. Open Navigation

    In the website builder, open Navigation. Your website has menus for the header and the footer, and you can add others.

  2. Add your pages

    Use Add pages not in the menu yet to bring in every page that is not in the menu yet, or add items one at a time. Each item links to one of your pages or to another website.

  3. Choose how each item looks

    Show an item as a plain link, a button or an outline button, or group items under a dropdown or a mega menu with column headers and dividers. Add a short description to items in a mega menu.

  4. Put them in order

    Drag items into order and check the live preview on desktop and on mobile.

Let Wizard AI draft it. Describe your business in a sentence and AI can suggest a menu, or tidy up the labels of the one you have. AI actions use AI credits.

Set up each page for search and sharing

Open a page's SEO settings. The search preview shows how the page may look in search results as you type.

  • Meta description. One or two sentences that sum up the page and make people want to click.
  • Social sharing. The title, description and image shown when the page is shared on social media. Use an image of 1200 by 630 pixels.
  • Indexing. Choose whether search engines should list the page and follow its links, and set a canonical address if the same content appears in more than one place.

The AI tools on a page can suggest better SEO and analyse the page for you.

Keep old links working

  1. Open Redirects

    In the website builder sidebar, open Redirects.

  2. Add the old and new addresses

    Enter the old path, such as /our-services, and where it should go now: one of your pages or another website.

  3. Choose the type

    Choose permanent (301) when a page has moved for good, which also tells search engines to update their records, or temporary (302) for a short term change.

Redirects are checked before your pages, so an old link always lands in the right place. Some system addresses cannot be redirected.

Your website also publishes a sitemap automatically, so search engines can find every page.

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