Get found on Google

A site nobody can find is a site nobody uses. FromScratch does not promise rankings — nobody honest can — but there are a handful of things you control that make a real difference: being published at a stable address, a clear title and description on every page, and telling Google that your site exists. This guide walks through them in plain language.

First: only published sites can be found

The live preview inside your workspace is private. It is not a public address and search engines never see it. Google can only discover your site once it is published (publishing is included in the Starter and Pro plans). If you have not done that yet, start with Publish your site.

Once it is online, prefer your own domain over the default address: it is easier to remember, it is the name people will search for, and it stays the same if you rebuild the project later. See Use your own domain.

What search engines actually see

How your pages reach a search engine depends on the kind of project:

The practical consequence for a React site: the title, the description and the social preview image that live in the head of the page matter a lot, because they are often the only thing a crawler or a link preview reads.

Ask the agent for real titles and descriptions

You don't need to touch any code. Ask the agent in the chat, the same way you ask for any other change:

Set up the basics for Google: a page title and a short description on every page (in French), a social preview image using our hero photo, a sitemap and a robots file. Our business is "Atelier Nomade", a ceramics studio in Bordeaux.

A good title is short (around 50–60 characters), starts with what the page is about and ends with your brand. A good description is one or two sentences that make someone want to click. Write them for people, not for robots: stuffing keywords does not help.

Tip

if your site has several pages (services, pricing, contact…), ask for a different title and description on each one. Identical titles on every page make it hard for Google to tell them apart.

Make the content worth finding

Search engines rank pages that answer a question well. A few habits that help, all of which you can ask the agent for:

• Say what you do and where in plain words on the home page: « Ceramics workshops in Bordeaux » beats a clever slogan nobody searches for.
• One clear heading per page describing that page.
• Real text, not only images. Text inside a picture can't be read by crawlers. Ask the agent to add short descriptive text (and alt text on images).
• Fast and mobile-friendly. Check the Mobile view of the preview; most searches happen on phones.

Tell Google your site exists

Google finds new sites eventually, but you can speed it up with Google Search Console (Google's free tool for site owners). The usual route is:

1. Publish the site, ideally on your own domain.
2. Add the site in Search Console and verify you own it. Search Console offers a DNS record (added where you manage your domain) or a short tag to put in the page head — the agent can add that tag for you, then Republish.
3. Submit your sitemap address if you asked the agent to create one.

Note

any change the agent makes appears in the preview first. The live site only changes after you click Republish — see Publish, republish, unpublish.

FAQ

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• Publish your site
• Use your own domain
• Preview vs published site
• Write prompts that work