Weebly offers unlimited number of pages with 500 MB limit in the size for free users and with Weebly / Square footer ads. Each page in your Weebly site can be customized to suit your requirement and can be different from other pages in the same site. All options relevant to page settings are available under “Pages” tab in the Weebly editor. This article explains various Weebly page settings options to build and effectively promote your Weebly pages in search engines.
Adding Pages to Your Site
Add more pages to your site under “Pages” tab by clicking on the + icon. You will see a list showing type of the page and click on it as per your need. You can create the following page types:
- Standard Page – where you can drag and drop elements to build your content.
- Blog Page – shows the latest list of blog posts.
- Category Page – shows your store categories.
- Product Page – displays your store products.
- External Page – link to an external webpage.
- It is also possible to add a non-clickable to menu to your site.
You can see an icon at the end of page name indicating the type of that page.
Creating Sub-Pages
If you want to create a sub- pages in the navigation menu like “Home > Blog > Forum” then you can just drag the Blog and Forum pages to right side and these pages will automatically become sub page of your Home page.
After publishing it will work like a mouse over function, once you move your mouse over Home tab then Blog tab will get extended and then Forum will get extended. This drop down can be horizontal or vertical based on your theme selection.
Changing Home Page
You can drag and move any page to up or down in the order to sort your pages in the navigation menu. The first page in the list is your “Home” page and you can see a home icon at the end indicating this.
Selecting Page Header Layout
Earlier, Weebly used to offer multiple page layouts like Tall Header Image, Small Header Image, No Header Image and Landing Page as shown in the below picture.
However, this has been simplified and you now you have only two or three layouts – Header, No Header and Splash. Click the page name and then select the layout from the dropdown showing below the “Header Type” section.
You can choose your page layout to adjust the content and header image area and each page can have different layouts. Splash page is a fullwidth layout useful for showing product launch or 404 page. Learn more about selecting page and section layouts in Weebly.
In addition to the default page layouts offered by Weebly, you can go to “Theme > Edit HTML/CSS” section and add a custom page layout of your own.
Basic Page Settings
Under “Pages” tab, click on the page to see the page level settings.
- Page Name – when creating a standard page, Weebly will add the name as “New Page” by default. Just delete the default name and type a custom name for your page.
- Hide in Navigation – by default, Weebly will add all created pages in the top navigation menu. If you do not want to show the page name in the menu, then check this option.
- Header – as mentioned above, select the page header layout.
- Visibility – click on this button to set a password for your page or make it accessible only for members.
- Copy & Delete – You can also copy the complete page with content to a new page or delete the page from your site.
Advanced SEO Settings
The “SEO Settings” provide various options at page level to optimize your pages for search engines.
- Page Title – shown in browser’s title bar as well in search engine result pages.
- Permalink – Weebly will assign your page name as the URL. However, you can change the URL of your page by entering a custom address in this box. Make sure to separate each word with hypen and avoid using special characters in the URL.
- Meta Description – add a short summary of your page in “Page Description” box which will be used as meta description by search engines and shown in the search results.
- Meta Keywords – you can add the keywords in this box. However, this is no more used by Google and other search engines. So, leave this box empty for all your pages.
- Header & Footer Code – add your Google Analytics tracking code and Webmaster Tools verification code in the Header Code section. If you have any other custom JavaScript, insert it in the Footer Code box.
- Hide this page from search engines – you can also hide your page from search engines by enabling this check box.
Note: You can find all site level SEO settings under “Settings > SEO” section in Weebly editor.
Hello! I am having so many problems with my weebly starter.
1.My sub pages are not showing up in search engines. I have installed web waster tools, changed h2 to h1 tags for blogs. Still no luck?
2. Is there a related content widget for weebly? I havn’t found one!
3. When I add categories to my blog posts, like dessert sub page for recipes it links back to the same page. It should show all the dessert pages of my site. How to do that?
4. I am thinking about switching to wordpress because of these problems but I don’t know html or css. Is it a good option? wordpress or weebly which one is safer from hackers?
1. Paste the complete URL in the search box and check whether it is showing in the results.
2. Use external services like AddThis, Outbrain, etc.
3. Category should link to category archive page, looks you are missing something here.
4. If you are looking wordpress.com then both are in similar category. If you are looking wordpress.org then you need to invest plenty of time.
Hello
Wha can we do with the “main” page when we create sub pages so that they are not blank in case somebody clicks on it by mistake.
Thanks
James
You can make the main page not clickable by adding CSS, check out this article – https://www.webnots.com/make-top-level-navigation-menu-not-clickable-in-weebly/.
Hope it helps.
Hello,
I really hope you can help. On weebly I have a landing page and another 3 pages created as blogs. I would like that every time we post a new article on the blog pages to get an update on the landing page automatically in a ‘New Posts’ section. Would that be possible?
Thanks in advance
Andreea
You can use feed reader element to do this. Also you can burn blog feed with feedburner or any other feed readers and embed the feed to show latest posts.
Weebly did this months ago but your account preceded the date on which their policy changed, like mine apparently did, you can add new websites to your grandfathered account and still have no page limit.
I wanted a new account for an organization to which I belong because I didn’t want their new website to be on my account since eventually there would be a new ‘webmaster’. So, I have set them up with a free Wix account which still has no page limit, I believe, although there is a storage limit.
Did you try with adding editors to a site under your account? As a free user you can invite others to maintain your site as an administrator. Please refer this article on editor permission settings.
one of the feature i like most about weebly is its unlimited page and easy to use.
Weebly has restricted the page limit to 5 for free account and 10 for starter account, so not much useful if you want to build a big content site.