SEO Settings for Blog Posts
To help an article get found on Google, and make people want to click when it's shared on social media, you can set its title, description and preview image. These are its SEO settings (SEO is how search engines like Google find and display your pages).
Where to set these
When you click Publish, the SEO title, SEO description and preview image are under Advanced settings, at the bottom of the publishing window. You'll also find Show this page in search engines there, to keep an article out of Google.
Once the post is online, you can change them at any time from your list of posts: click ⋮ next to the post, then Open settings.
SEO title
The SEO title is the clickable headline in search results, and it also shows in the browser tab. If you leave it empty, TinyPages uses your post's title.
Keep it under 60 characters so it isn't cut off. Include the main words someone might type to find this article.
SEO description
The SEO description appears under the title in search results and in link previews on social media. It has no direct effect on your position in Google, but it influences whether people click on your post.
Keep it between 120 and 155 characters.
TinyPages includes an AI tool in this field: click the small purple star to generate a description from your post's content, then edit it as needed.
Preview image
When someone shares your article link on social media, a preview appears with an image: that's the preview image. It also appears above the title in your public blog list, so visitors see it while browsing your articles.
Pick any image from your media library. If you leave it empty, TinyPages uses a default preview based on your logo, and the article list shows no image above the title.
A wide, landscape image works best. The ideal size is 1200 × 630 pixels, the format social networks use for their link previews. They crop the image to fit, so keep the important part near the center.
What search engines read automatically
There is nothing more to fill in here. Each published article also carries information your visitors don't see, which search engines and AI assistants read. It includes the article's title, summary, image, publication date, last edit date, and your name as the author. TinyPages builds it from the settings above.
This only applies to articles shown in search engines. Articles you have excluded from search engines don't carry it, and neither does the preview link of your draft.
To see it, paste your article's address into Google's Rich Results Test.