Set Up Your Site's Metadata – OpenCities

This task is for users with the OC Site Manager or OC System Administrator roles.

Metadata is information about data. In this case, the metadata refers to information about your site. You can manage metadata from Site Management; this video will show you how to do it:

Go to More > Site Management > your site > Settings.
Select Metadata.
Make your changes.
Select Save Settings and Save.

Metadata Settings

Description

Enter a description of your site to use in search engine results for any page that does not have its own description.

Please note that while this description will display for search results of your homepage, there's no guarantee that this description will be used for other pages on your site. Search engines often use the user's search keywords to find matching content on the page. In this case, the matching content will be used as the description instead of the Page description.

Social media image

Add a default image to be used as a preview for your site on social media. This image will appear when users share:

Your site's homepage
Site pages if the specific page does not have an image in the page image field

We recommend using an image that is 1200 px x 630 px, with a maximum file size of 1024 KB. Please also note the following:

If you do not upload an image in this field, there is no way to control what image will be used when someone shares your homepage on social media.
Social media platforms have default behaviors when deciding what content and images to use for a shared page. If no image is supplied for a page, the social media platform will use those behaviors to choose an image from that page.

Additional tags

If you need to, add extra metadata tags for your site. The tag value will be taken from the page field that you select. You can also set an alternative text value to use when that field is empty on a page.

Learn more about using this field and creating meta tags for CMS deeplinking.

What else?