Weebly SEO: every setting, where it hides, and the one field to skip

Weebly SEO is done in two places. Site wide, open Settings and then SEO to write the site description, add verification code for Google Search Console, and set up 301 redirects. Page by page, open each page's SEO Settings to write a unique page title, page description and permalink. Store products, the storefront and blog posts each have their own SEO fields in their own menus, which is where most Weebly sites have gaps. Weebly creates your sitemap automatically at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml, so the last step is submitting it to Search Console. The rest is content and links.

The menu paths below come from Weebly's support centre and its own SEO guide, both read on 21 October 2026.

Site level settings: Settings, then SEO

This panel applies to the whole site. Weebly lists five things in it:

Field	What it does	What to do with it
Site Description	Text that can appear with your site title in search results	Two or three sentences on what you do and where, written for a person
Meta Keywords	A list of keywords in the page code	Optional. Google does not use it (see below)
Header and Footer Code	Code added to every page	Paste the Search Console verification tag and your analytics code here
Hide site from search engines	Stops search engines indexing the site	Leave it off on a live site. It also affects Weebly's on-site search
301 Redirects	Sends old addresses to new pages	Use it when you move to Weebly on the same domain

Weebly's help recommends leaving the home page's own description and keyword fields blank, so the home page uses these site level settings. That is sensible. Fill in the page level fields on every other page.

Page level settings: the fields that do most of the work

For a standard page, go to Pages, select the page, and open SEO Settings. You will find:

• Page Title. Weebly calls the title tag the page title. It is the headline in search results. Keep it around 50 to 60 characters, put the main subject first, and make it different on every page.
• Page Description. The meta description. It does not change rankings directly, but it is often the snippet searchers read before choosing a result, so write it to earn the click.
• Page Permalink. The address of the page. Weebly page addresses end in .html. Use a short, plain description of the page, such as /wedding-flowers.html, rather than a default name.
• Header code. A box for code added to that page only. This is where a noindex tag or a canonical tag goes (more on both below).

One setting that catches people out lives elsewhere. Weebly's title tag guide says to go to Settings, then General, then Site Title, and untick "Show title on top of your pages", or your site name is added to every title tag. A title that reads "Wedding Flowers | Flowers and Such" on every page wastes space and makes every result look the same.

Store, storefront and blog: three more sets of fields

These are separate from page settings, and they are where most Weebly stores and blogs leave defaults in place.

Content	Title and description	Address
Product	Store, Products, the product, then SEO Settings	Product Permalink, in the same product
Storefront and categories	Store, Storefront, Advanced Options, SEO Page Title	Advanced Category Permalink
Blog post	While editing the post: Post Options, Advanced, SEO Post Title	Post Options, Advanced, Permalink (available after the post is published; it defaults to the headline)

A store with fifty products and fifty default titles is the most common Weebly SEO problem there is. Work through products in order of sales, and write each title the way a buyer would search for it: product type, the feature that matters, and the brand if people search for it.

The field to skip: meta keywords

Weebly's settings still offer a Meta Keywords field, and an older Weebly help article suggests 10 to 30 words in it. Google's own documentation on supported meta tags, read on 21 October 2026, says the keywords meta tag "is not used by Google Search, and it has no effect on indexing and ranking at all." Filling it in does no harm, but it is not worth your time. Put those words into the page title, the headings and the text instead, where they do count.

Sitemap, Search Console and indexing

Weebly builds the sitemap for you. Add /sitemap.xml to the end of your home page address to see it. Then:

1. Add your site to Google Search Console.
2. Paste the verification meta tag into Settings, SEO, Header Code, publish, and finish verification.
3. Submit yoursite.com/sitemap.xml in the Sitemaps report.
4. Resubmit after big changes, such as a batch of new pages or a new store section. Weebly's guide suggests weekly resubmission for sites that add a lot of content.

To keep a single page out of search, paste this into that page's Header code, under SEO Settings:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

Use it for thank you pages, landing pages for one campaign, and anything you would not want a stranger to land on from Google.

Canonical tags, with one warning

If the same content appears at two addresses, a canonical tag tells search engines which one is the original. On Weebly it goes into the page's Header code:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/original-page.html">

Weebly's guide gives one clear warning: do not add a canonical tag to a Blog page. Code on the blog page applies to every post on it, so you would be telling Google that every post is a copy of the blog home page. Most Weebly sites never need a manual canonical. Use it only when you know there is a duplicate.

301 redirects when you move to Weebly

Open Settings, then SEO, scroll to the bottom, and click Add Redirect. Enter the old address, choose the matching Weebly page, save and publish. You can add as many as you need, and several old pages can point to one new page.

Two limits from Weebly's help are worth knowing before you plan a move:

• Redirects work only when you keep the same domain name. If you move to a new domain, these page by page redirects do not apply.
• Weebly pages end in .html. If your old site used .php, .htm or no extension, every old address needs its own redirect to the new .html page.

Images and on-page basics

To add alt text, click the image, then Advanced, then Alt Text. Describe what the image shows in under about 125 characters, and leave alt text off purely decorative images. Captions add useful nearby text too. Upload images close to the size they display at, rather than a large photo straight from a camera. Weebly sizes background and header images automatically, but not the ones you place in the page.

For links, use descriptive words rather than "click here". And if you serve one area, say so in the text, add your address, and make sure your Google Business Profile matches it.

Weebly SEO questions, answered

Is Weebly good for SEO?

It covers the basics: editable titles, descriptions and addresses, an automatic sitemap, header code for verification and noindex, and 301 redirects. That is enough for a small business site to rank for local and niche searches.

Where are the SEO settings in Weebly?

Site wide under Settings, then SEO. For each page under Pages, the page, then SEO Settings. Products, the storefront and blog posts have their own fields in the Store and Post Options menus.

Does Weebly make a sitemap?

Yes, automatically, at /sitemap.xml on your domain. Submit it once in Google Search Console and again after large changes.

Why does my site name appear in every Weebly page title?

The "Show title on top of your pages" box under Settings, General, Site Title is ticked. Untick it, publish, and set each page title yourself.

Should I fill in meta keywords on Weebly?

You can skip them. Google says it does not use the keywords meta tag. Spend the time on page titles and the words on the page.

The search a Weebly site never sees in its stats

Weebly sites are usually small businesses: a florist, a tutor, a local trade. Those are exactly the businesses people now ask about in a chat window. "Who does wedding flowers near me?" typed into ChatGPT gets a short list of names, not ten blue links, and there is no Search Console report for it. Your titles and descriptions still feed that answer, because assistants read the same public pages and the same directories. The check worth adding is simple: ask the assistants the questions your customers ask and see whose name comes back. AI Knows Us runs that question across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, and shows which pages and listings the answers drew on.