Pages

Get found by Google and AI

Your page starts private. Here is how to let Google and AI find it when you are ready.

Every page you publish starts private. The link works for anyone you send it to, but Google and Bing don't list it, and AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity aren't allowed to read it. When you want a page found, you switch it on yourself.

Everything a search engine needs is already written into the page. Switching it on takes a click, not a republish.

Make a page findable

Open the page from Pages, then the Page details tab.
Find the Search & AI card and turn on Allow search engines, Allow AI agents, or both.
Click Save changes.

That's it. The page is now open to crawlers, listed in your sitemap.xml, and named in your llms.txt for AI answer engines. The live page updates right away, and the site-wide files catch up within about a minute.

Turning a toggle back off takes the page out again. Search engines drop it the next time they look.

Or ask Claude

If you publish through Claude, you don't have to come to the dashboard for this. After publishing, Claude tells you the page is private and offers to change it. You can also just say it later:

Make my pricing page findable on Google.

Claude switches on both search and AI for that page. Say the opposite ("take that page back out of search") and it switches them off again.

What you can edit while you're there

The same Search & AI card holds:

Meta title and Meta description, the headline and blurb a search result shows. Both are written for you when you publish; edit them if you want different words.
Keywords.
Share image and Favicon. See Manage a page.

What every page gets, switched on or not

A title and description.
Share card tags, so the link unfurls with a title, description, and picture when it's posted in chat apps and social media.
A canonical link, so search engines know which address to rank.
Structured data, a machine-readable summary in the standard format search engines and AI answer engines understand.
A favicon link, if you uploaded one.

All of it refreshes every time you publish, replace the file, or save the Search & AI card. That's why switching discoverability on later needs no republish: the work was already done, the page was just closed to crawlers.

Every address you publish under also serves robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt automatically, generated live. They list the pages you've switched on and stay quiet about the rest.

Common questions

Do the toggles make a page private? Not in the way that word usually means. Off keeps a page out of search results and out of AI answers, and that's real, but anyone holding the link can still open it. If the content itself needs protecting, put a password on it. See Keep a page private.

I switched it on and my page still isn't in Google. That's normal and there's nothing to fix. PageSumo has done its part: the page is open to crawlers, described properly, and in your sitemap. When Google actually visits and lists it is Google's decision, and for a new page that can take days or weeks. Resubmitting won't speed it up.

What about pages I published a while ago? Pages published before this became the default kept whatever setting they already had, so an older page may well be listed in Google. Open any page you're unsure about and check the two toggles on Page details.

I want a page out of Google, and it's already listed. Turn Allow search engines off and save. The page is marked as one search engines must not list, and it drops out the next time they crawl it. That's the fastest route we have. Nobody can force an immediate removal from someone else's index.

What about password-protected pages? They're kept out of all of it automatically, whatever the toggles say. Never in the sitemap or llms.txt, always off-limits to crawlers, and no share preview picture.