This guide is intended for users of Infomaniak's Site Creator who wish to optimize their website's search engine ranking.

Introduction

• Infomaniak is one of the highest-performing hosting providers on the French-speaking market, which contributes to the good search engine ranking of your websites.
• However, Infomaniak will not intervene on the content or development of hosted websites (please refer to this other guide regarding search engine optimization).

Add Site Creator to Google

Prerequisites

• Access Site Creator:
  • Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
  • Click directly on the name assigned to the Site Creator in question.
  • Click on the Edit my site button to start the editor:
    

To submit your site to the Google search engine:

1. Click on the Applications button in the left-hand menu.
2. Click on the Add to Google application:
   

This application allows for 2 operations:

1. Open the Google Search Console interface to manage your site's analytics:
   
2. You can insert the verification code provided by Google Search Console if you choose the simple method (see below):
   

Ownership Verification (requested by Google)

When you want to add your site to the Google tool and click the button in step 1 above, you will be given two options:

1. the method for monitoring an entire domain, which requires verification to be performed at the domain name level (in the Infomaniak interface if your domain name/DNS zone is managed by Infomaniak),
2. the simpler method, which allows you to specify the exact URL of your site, and for which verification will be done directly from Site Creator:
   

1. Method with domain name ownership verification

1. Enter the complete URL of your Site Creator and click Continue:
   
2. Make sure that the TXT type is selected and click the COPY button:
   
3. Click here to access your domain name management if it is managed with Infomaniak (otherwise, you will need to perform these operations with the relevant provider).
4. Click directly on the name assigned to the product in question.
5. Click on DNS Zone in the left-hand menu.
6. Click on the button to add a record:
   
7. Select the TXT type from the list.
8. Click on the Next button:
   
9. Leave this field blank or enter the term that comes before your domain name if you have created a site xxx.domain.xyz (in this example, you would enter visit in the Source field, since Site Creator is created on https://visit.exemple-domaine.ch).
10. Paste the information retrieved in step 2 above.
11. Click on the button to Save:
    
12. Go back to the Google tool and click on Verify (wait a few minutes if the verification does not take place):
    
13. There you go, the link between your Site Creator and the analytics console has been established; click the button to configure the property:
    

2. Simple method

1. Enter the complete URL of your Site Creator and click Continue:
   
2. Click the chevron ‍ to expand the HTML TAG section, which provides the information to be pasted into Site Creator to prove its ownership.
3. Click the COPY button:
   
4. Paste the information into the designated area in Site Creator.
5. Save the changes:
   
6. Go back to the Google tool and click Verify (wait a few minutes if the verification doesn't complete immediately):
   
7. There you go, the link between your Site Creator and the analytics console has been established; click the button to configure the property:
   

Define Meta Tags

Once in Site Creator:

1. Click the Settings button in the left-hand menu.
2. Click General Settings.
3. Click SEO and Metadata.
4. Enter the title, description, and keywords for the entire site:
   
   

This is also where you can manage the robots.txt file if necessary.

To define this, but for a specific page:

1. Click on the Settings button in the left-hand menu.
2. Click on General Settings.
3. Click on Subpage Settings.
4. Click on SEO & Metadata.

If you do not make any changes on this page, Site Creator will dynamically manage your tags.

You can also manage the URLs of your pages independently of the SEO title of your page (a page named "Contact" from an SEO perspective, while its URL will be, for example, "/enterprise").

What "Meta Keywords"?

To enter multiple keywords, separate them with a comma or similar:

Sitemap.xml

Do not confuse this with the Sitemap module. The sitemap.xml file lists all the pages of your site to help search engines discover and index them efficiently. You can view it to understand the site structure; replace domain.xyz with your domain name to access it (publicly) from a browser:

https://domain.xyz/sitemap.xml

Submit your URL to Google Search Console (refer to the first chapter above in this guide) and other webmaster tools to improve indexing.

Insert tracking codes

Your website includes a simple Statistics module, but you can also use Google Analytics or other tracking methods (such as Facebook Pixel, Google Tag, etc.) that require inserting code into your site:

1. Click the Settings button in the left-hand menu.
2. Click on General settings.
3. Click on SEO and statistics.
4. Scroll down the page and insert your tracking codes.