Visibility · Search engine optimization
Everything that helps search engines understand your store, all in one place: sitemaps that build themselves, polished descriptions, and social previews in your own style. More free traffic.
Sitemap & robots.txt
Vivlab generates and updates your sitemap and robots.txt automatically every time your catalog, pages, or blog change. There's nothing for you to maintain.
Grab a file's link and paste it into Google Search Console or your webmaster tool.
It bundles pages, categories, products, and blog. The individual sitemaps are there to track one content type on its own.
A file XML that lists your important URLs: the map robots follow to discover your content.
A file that points robots toward the pages to crawl or skip. The very first one they check on arrival.
Seeing a warning that your links come from a development address? Search engines can't index them. Set up a domain name before you submit your sitemap.
SEO descriptions
Two descriptions, 200 characters each: one for your store, one as the default for your products. Clear and catchy, they push your click-through rate up.
The general description of your store, shown under your homepage link and in social previews.
The default SEO description for every listing that doesn't have its own, for consistent ranking without filling them in one by one.
For a specific product, you can always swap this text for a dedicated description right from its product page.
Redirect rules
Automatically send one URL to another: your visitors no longer land on a 404 when a page has been deleted, renamed, or you've reorganized your site.
The URL to redirect, always relative and starting with /, e.g. /home.
The URL to land on, relative as well, e.g. /blogs.
No longer needed? The icon on the right removes it. With no rule, a No redirect rule message invites you to create one.
Great too for migrating from an old site with different URLs, or temporarily redirecting a page during a campaign.
The page has been permanently moved to a new URL.
The page is moved temporarily; you plan to restore the original URL.
Social preview
Vivlab generates a 1200 × 630 image for each page shared on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and iMessage, using the font and logo from your brand theme. Pick the template per page type.
Home, about, contact… The preview is built from a page of your choice.
Puts the product photo front and center. Preview any listing in your catalog.
Uses the post's cover image as the background. Choose the post to preview.
Social previews depend on your subscription. If they're not included in your plan, a message lets you know at the top of the page.
Sitemaps, SEO descriptions, redirects, and social previews: all the SEO tooling is included in every Vivlab plan.