Can I make my wedding website searchable on Google and track Google Analytics?

Search results

Your wedding website is hidden from search results by default. To change this, click the avatar in the top right corner of the page and select "Website Settings & Billing" from the menu.

Scroll down to "Search Visibility", turn on "Allow search engines and AI search", then click Save.

What this setting does

• When it's off (the default): your website asks search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) and AI search tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.) not to list it in their results.
• When it's on: search engines and AI search tools may list your website in their results.
• Always, regardless of this setting: we tell AI companies not to use your website to train their AI models, and we tell web archives (such as the Wayback Machine) not to save copies of it. If you'd like a copy of your website, you can download it as a PDF.

If your website is password protected, search results will only show your password page. Your content stays private either way.

If you turn it off after your website was already listed

Your website won't disappear from search results immediately. Search engines need to revisit your website before they remove it, which can take anywhere from a few days to several weeks. We can't control how quickly Google or other search engines do this.

Getting listed faster on Google

Please note that we have no control over how Google and other any search engines index their search results and are not able to know how long it will take for your site to show up when searched. Therefore, we highly recommend submitting your site directly to Google using their Search Console.

To submit your site to Google (which should speed up their indexing process), you'll need to visit the Google Search Console, which is a bit more complicated (they recently retired their submit links method of indexing):

1. Go to https://search.google.com/search-console
2. Add a new property by clicking "Add property" in the top left corner menu
3. In the dialog window, in the left-section under "Domain" enter your domain name
4. The dialog window will update, and then say "Verify domain ownership via DNS record" in the title
5. In the middle of the dialog, labeled #2, is "Copy the TXT record..." and a button that says "COPY"
6. Click "COPY", this will copy the long value to your clipboard
7. Paste the value given into an email sent to help@rileygrey.com. We will need to we enter the TXT record value into our system before you will be able to complete the verification process. After we add the TXT record, you will be able to go back and finalize the verification process.

Google Analytics

Finally, we're not currently offering integration with Google Analytics, unfortunately. We rarely get requests for supporting that feature and as such we haven't worked with Google to integrate the service into our sites at this time.