Edit your SEO title and description

Change a Showit page

Showit page editor

1. Open your site in Showit. In the page list, choose the page named in your task. Select the page itself so you can see its settings.
2. Open SEO Settings in the settings panel. Find Page Title and Meta Description.
3. Enter your title and description. Check that you are editing this page’s search details, rather than a text box on the canvas.
4. Read both fields once more, then Publish when you are ready for the change to go live. Keep any other unfinished site edits in mind before publishing.

For an individual blog post, use the WordPress steps below. Changing a Showit blog template does not set the title and description of each post.

Change a blog post

Showit-hosted WordPress with Yoast SEO

1. Open the WordPress dashboard for your Showit blog. Go to Posts, find the post in your task, and choose Edit.
2. Find the Yoast SEO panel below the editor or open it from the editor sidebar. Open its search preview controls to reach SEO title and Meta description.
3. Enter your new wording. Check the preview for any automatic site-name text or title variables that are still included.
4. Choose Update or Save, depending on your editor, when you are ready to change the published post. For a draft, save it as a draft until you are ready to publish.

These steps assume Yoast SEO is available on your Showit blog. If it isn’t, ask Showit support which SEO controls your blog plan includes before adding a plugin.

WordPress editor with Yoast SEO

1. In WordPress, open Pages or Posts, find the item named in your task, and choose Edit.
2. Open the SEO controls supplied by your SEO plugin. With Yoast SEO, look for Yoast SEO below the editor or in the sidebar, then open the search preview controls.
3. Edit SEO title and Meta description. If the title contains automatic variables, check the preview to make sure the final wording reads as you intended.
4. Save the change with Update or Save. If this is a draft, keep it as a draft until you are ready to publish it.

I have described Yoast’s controls here. Another SEO plugin may use different labels. If you cannot find these fields, check which plugin manages them before installing anything else. The visible page heading is a separate field.

Squarespace 7.1

1. In Squarespace, open Pages and find the page in your task. Open its settings, then the SEO tab.
2. Enter the wording in SEO Title and SEO Description. Read the preview, including any site name Squarespace adds through your title format.
3. Save the page settings when you are ready. Open the settings again to check that both fields kept your changes.
4. For a blog post, open that post’s settings from its blog collection and look for its SEO options. Save the post’s changes when you are ready.

Your homepage can use site-level search appearance settings rather than the same controls as an ordinary page. If you don’t see these fields, follow Squarespace’s help for that page type. You do not need code injection to edit these fields.

Site builders and custom sites

1. Open the settings for the page you want to change. Look for a section called SEO, Search appearance, or Search settings.
2. Find the search title and description fields. These can be separate from the heading visitors see on the page. Enter your wording and check any preview your builder provides.
3. Save or publish when you are ready. Reopen the settings to check that your wording was kept.
4. If someone manages your site for you, send them the page address and both pieces of text. Ask them to update that page’s HTML title and meta description.

For a custom site, the title belongs in a <title>Your page title</title> element inside the page’s <head>. The description belongs in <meta name="description" content="Your page description"> in the same place. Your developer should replace the existing values and safely escape the text.

I would check the page after saving, then allow time for Google to revisit it. A change in your editor does not immediately change the search result.