Your live pages

Keep a page private

Password-protecting a page, what the search toggles do and do not do, and the recommended setup for something not ready to launch.

PageSumo has no drafts. A page is live and public the moment you publish it. To limit who sees one, put a password on it.

Put a password on a page

  1. Open the page from Pages, then the Page details tab.
  2. In the Password protection card, turn on Require a password to view this page.
  3. Enter a password (at least 4 characters) and click Set password.

Visitors now get a lock screen and must enter the password before any content loads. Protected pages are also hidden from Google and AI search engines automatically, and their links show no preview image when shared, so nothing leaks through a chat app.

A password can only be set after a page is published, so set it right after your first publish. In that gap the page is only reachable by someone who already has the link.

Hiding a page for a launch

The recommended setup for something you're still polishing:

  1. Publish it and set a password immediately. That's the real gate, and it hides the page from search and kills its share image at the same time.
  2. Share the link and the password with the people who should see it.
  3. At launch, remove the password on Page details. The page goes public, search engines are allowed back in, and the share image starts working, all at the address you've already been testing.

Because the URL never changes, everything you set up beforehand carries straight over.

Common questions

Do the Search & AI toggles make a page private? No, and this is the important one. Turning off Allow search engines and Allow AI agents asks Google and AI tools to stay away, and well-behaved ones do. Anyone with the link can still open the page. If the content itself needs protecting, use a password. See Get found by Google and AI.

Can I give different people different passwords? No. It's one shared password, not individual accounts. Anyone you give it to can pass it along.

Someone I shared it with should not have access anymore. Change the password on Page details. That locks out everyone who unlocked it before, so send the new one to the people who should keep access.

My visitor unlocked it yesterday and is being asked again. The password changed. An unlock lasts up to 30 days per browser, but changing the password invalidates every earlier unlock immediately.