Website settings: name, contact details, properties and Google

The Site settings panel holds what applies to your whole website: its name and logo, its address, its properties and languages, the contact details visitors see, and the texts Google shows for each page. You open it from the … menu of the editor.

Open Site settings

1. In the editor, open the … menu in the bar at the top.
2. Click Site settings.

The panel has these parts, from top to bottom: Photos to approve (only when some photos wait for you), Site identity, Web address, Properties, Languages, Public contact and Search engines (Google). Fields save on their own when you leave them, and a green Saved appears at the top.

Photos to approve

You must have the right to show every photo of your website. Photos you choose yourself are approved by that choice. Photos imported from your Airbnb listing that Nowistay placed on the site wait for your approval.

1. At the top of Site settings, the Photos to approve card shows these photos: “These Airbnb photos are shown on your website. Approve them to confirm you may use them.”
2. Click Approve these photos. A message confirms Photos approved.

In a block, a photo chosen by the AI and not yet approved shows a To approve badge on its thumbnail: click it to approve that photo alone.

You can only publish when Every photo shown is approved.

Site identity

• Website name: your brand or the name of your property. It shows at the top of your pages when there is no logo, in page titles, in the browser tab and when the site is shared. Up to 120 characters. Changing it also renames the website in your list of websites.
• Tagline (footer): a short sentence shown in the footer, under your logo. One per language, up to 200 characters. For example: “Two stone cottages by the river, family-run since 2015.”
• Logo and Icon: see Change the look of your website.

Web address

Your website lives at an address such as les-gites-du-moulin.nowistay.page. You can change it here with Change the address: 3 to 40 characters, lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. Once the site has been published, the old address leads to the new one for 12 months.

To use your own domain name, such as www.your-cottages.com, open Domain name in the … menu. Both are explained in Your website address and your own domain name.

Properties on the website

Each property has its own page on the site.

Add a property

1. In Properties, click Add a property.
2. The window lists your properties. A property that isn’t ready shows what is missing (No AI plan, Not on Nowistay PMS, Stripe not linked, Details missing or Photos missing), with a link to fix it. See Get your properties ready for your website.
3. Choose a ready property and click Add.
4. A banner shows “Adding” and the property’s name. After about a minute, it says the property was added: check its page, then publish.

The AI writes the property’s page in every language of your site. Adding a property does not use your AI credits and does not change the price of your website: the website subscription is per website, not per property.

The new property also joins the property cards of your home page. If your site had a single property, its buttons that led to that property’s booking now lead to your properties page.

Example: you manage 6 apartments in Seville and start renting a seventh, Casa Triana. Once it has its AI plan, Nowistay PMS, Stripe, its listing details and 5 photos, you add it here, check its new page, and publish.

One property, one website

A property can only be on one of your websites. If it is already on another one, Nowistay says “A property is already on another website.” To move it, remove it from the first website and publish that website: the property is then free to join the other one.

When every property is used, the window says “All your properties are already on a website.”

Remove a property

1. Click Remove next to the property.
2. Confirm. Its page leaves the site at your next publish, and its address then leads visitors to your properties page.

Its photos and reviews also leave the other blocks of the site (for example the main banner or the reviews). Until you publish, the property stays on your live site. A website keeps at least one property, so the last one can’t be removed.

Limits

Languages

Add or remove a language of your site in Languages. See Website languages and translations.

Public contact

• Contact e-mail (required)
• Phone (optional)

The e-mail appears in the footer, on each property page (for guests who have a question before booking) and in the legal notice. The phone number appears in the legal notice. Both save together once the e-mail is valid.

Good to know: messages sent through your site’s Contact form block don’t go to this contact e-mail. They arrive at the e-mail address you use to log in to Nowistay, and in Enquiries in the … menu. Visitors who click the e-mail link of the site write directly to your contact e-mail. See Bookings and messages from your website.

Search engines (Google)

This part sets the title and the description Google shows for the page open in the preview. When Nowistay created your site, it wrote a first title and description for each page; you can improve them here.

1. Open the page in the preview, for example Home or About with the tabs of the editor bar.
2. Open the … menu, then Site settings. The last part, Search engines (Google), shows the name of that page.
3. Change the Title and the Description. With several languages, use the language switch to write each one.

These texts don’t appear on the page itself. Google uses them in its results, and they also show when someone shares the page in a messaging app or on a social network.

Tips:

• Title: about 60 characters, with the place and the type of rental. For example: “Stone cottages with pool in the Dordogne | Les Gîtes du Moulin”.
• Description: one or two sentences (about 150 characters) that make people want to click: what you offer, for whom, what makes it special.
• One title per page: two pages can’t have the same title. Nowistay refuses it with “Another page or article already uses this title in search results. Choose another one.”

For a property page, ask the AI, for example: “Write a search title and description for the Casa Triana page.” Blog articles have their own Search results fields (see Write a blog for your website with AI).

What Nowistay already does for Google

You don’t need to install anything. On every published site, Nowistay:

• opens the site to search engines, while your private preview stays hidden from them;
• gives search engines the list of all your pages (a sitemap), updated at each publish;
• links the language versions of each page, so Google shows the right language;
• describes your properties in a way Google understands: name, photos, number of guests, bedrooms, beds, bathrooms, amenities, check-in and check-out times and town. The street address is never published, and the map position is rounded to about 100 metres;
• makes pages load fast, on phones too: photos are resized and compressed, pages stay light;
• serves the site on a secure address (https);
• keeps the legal pages, the booking confirmation page and the “page not found” page out of Google;
• for 12 months, sends visitors from an old address to a page that still exists when you change an address or remove a page or a property;
• prepares a title, a description and, when the page has one, a photo for pages shared on social networks and messaging apps;
• lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT read your site, with a short summary of your properties made for them.

Google decides when and where your pages appear: a new website can take some time to show up in its results. Regular blog articles give it more pages to show. See Get your website found on Google and AI assistants for what you can do to rank better.

There is no setting to add Google Analytics or other tracking tools. Visits are counted in Statistics, without cookies. See Website statistics.