Before and after launch: a password, your address, and being found | Tavilio blog
Before and after launch: a password, your address, and being found
Keep your site private behind a password while you build it, rename your free address, send guests to your own domain once it works, and give every language its own address in search.
Your website, arranged your way: pages, sections, layouts and colours
A website is not ready the moment it exists, and once it is ready it has to be found. This round of updates covers both ends.
A password while you build
Under Website › Password protection, put a password on the whole site.
Visitors see a password screen in your site's own style, and nothing else.
Search engines are kept out while the password is on.
The Share link lets whoever holds it straight in, for showing the site to a partner or a client without telling them the password.
Changing the password stops every earlier share link from working.
Switch it off and the site is public again.
Change your free address
Every venue has a free address that works with nothing to set up. Under Domain, the pencil on Free address lets you rename it.The old address stops working at once and may be taken by another venue, so update anything that links to it.
Your own domain takes over
Once a domain you connected actually works, your free address forwards guests to it, landing on the same page in the same language. Until then the free address keeps serving the site, so nobody lands on a dead link while the domain settles.
An address for every language
Every page now has its own address in each language your site publishes. Your main language has no prefix and the others carry their code: /menu and /en/menu on a Hungarian site.
The language switch takes guests to the same page in the other language.
Links stay in the language the guest is reading.
Search engines are told which pages are the same page in other languages, so each language can be found on its own.
Easier to find
Every site now has a robots.txt and a sitemap.xml. The sitemap lists only pages that are live: the menu, booking and events only when they are switched on, and only events that have not started yet.
Your home page tells search engines your opening hours, phone, address, map, menu and booking link, as structured data.
A page that does not exist shows a 404 page in your site's own style and language.
