Get Your Manus App to Rank on Search Engines: Introducing Built-in SEO
A great website that no one can find is a missed opportunity. For too long, the rich, dynamic sites built with modern AI tools have struggled to get the visibility they deserve on search engines. The very technology that makes them fast and interactive also makes them difficult for search engines (like Google Search) to index and rank, forcing a choice between user experience and SEO.
With the latest update to Manus Web App, that compromise is over. We’ve added new capabilities that make the web apps you build automatically search-engine-friendly, helping them get discovered more easily. Now you can build the best experience for your users while ensuring search engines can see, index, and rank your content—connecting your work to the audience it’s meant for.
How It Works: Get Your Site Indexed on Search Engines
Our new SEO capability makes your Manus-built websites fully indexable and competitive on search engines. It bridges the gap between modern, dynamic web experiences and the technical requirements of search crawlers. The system works by intelligently generating a prerendered, static HTML version of your site specifically for bots. When a human visitor arrives, they receive the rich, interactive experience you designed. When a search engine bot (like Googlebot) arrives, it receives a perfectly structured, content-rich snapshot that it can easily understand, index, and rank in search results.
This dual approach ensures you never have to compromise between user experience and search visibility. Your website performs beautifully for your audience while also communicating effectively with the bots that determine your ranking on search engines.
Key Capabilities
•Automatic Prerendering: Manus automatically generates and serves a lightweight, fully-optimized HTML version of your site to all major search engine bots, ensuring every page can be crawled and indexed on search engines correctly.
•Automated Technical SEO: Best practices are built-in from the start. The system automatically generates and maintains critical infrastructure, including canonical URLs to prevent duplicate content, a robots.txt file to guide crawlers, and dynamic sitemaps to help search engines discover all your pages.
•SEO Analysis & Scoring: A new SEO dashboard in your project provides a detailed health check for every page. It scores your on-page SEO against proven ranking factors and provides clear, actionable recommendations to improve your search ranking.
•AI-Powered Optimization: Go beyond analysis with “Optimize with Manus.” This one-click feature uses AI to automatically implement the dashboard’s recommendations, from writing compelling meta descriptions and titles to generating descriptive alt-text for your images.
Why It Matters
Ultimately, these new SEO features translate technical optimizations into tangible business outcomes. It’s not just about appeasing algorithms; it’s about connecting your work to the world.
•Get Discovered on Search Engines: Unlock the power of organic search and attract a steady stream of visitors from search engines who are looking for you.
•Drive Growth: Reach new customers, readers, and users who are actively searching on search engines for the solutions and content you provide.
•Build with Confidence: Focus your energy on creating a great product and compelling content, knowing that your technical SEO is handled automatically to maximize your search visibility.
•Save Time and Resources: Eliminate the need for complex, manual SEO configurations or expensive third-party tools. Your entire optimization workflow lives right within Manus.
How to Use It
Getting your site ready to rank on search engines is simple. Here is a quick guide to optimizing your first page:
1.Enable SEO: Open your project Settings, publish your site, and toggle on the new SEO feature. This kicks off the automatic prerendering process.
2.Check Your Score: Navigate to the SEO tab. You’ll see a real-time health score (e.g., 69/100) for your page, along with a checklist of metrics like "H1 heading," "SEO description," and "Keywords."
3.Identify Issues: Look for items marked with a red warning icon 🔴 or yellow alert 🟡. For example, you might see "No description found" or "No keywords detected."
4.Fix with AI: Instead of writing meta tags manually, simply click the “Optimize with Manus” button. Our AI will analyze your page content and automatically generate optimized titles, descriptions, and keywords for you.
5.Verify & Rank: Watch your score turn green 🟢 as the optimizations are applied. Your site is now technically primed for search engine crawlers.
Availability
These advanced SEO capabilities are designed for professional use and are available today as an exclusive benefit for all Manus Members on paid subscription plans.
Common Questions
Q: Do I need to be an SEO expert to use this?
A: Not at all. These features are designed to automate the most complex technical aspects of search engine optimization so you can get indexed on search engines without being an expert. The dashboard provides simple, clear guidance, and the AI-powered "Optimize with Manus" feature can handle the implementation for you.
Q: How does this affect my site's performance for regular visitors?
A: It doesn't. The prerendered version of your site is only served to search engine bots. Your human visitors will continue to experience the fast, dynamic version of your site exactly as you designed it.
Q: If I use a custom domain, will my website also be indexed?
A: Using a custom domain can also be effectively indexed, but if you want to accelerate indexing, you can submit your website in the Google Search Console.
Q: Can my site be indexed if I use a manus.space subdomain?
A: Yes, sites on manus.space subdomains are fully supported for indexing.
Q: What if I don't want my site to be indexed?
A: Manus does not currently support a "Private Publish" option. However, without enabling SEO optimization, your site will be much harder for search engines to discover and index effectively. For restricted access, you can share your project via email with specific visitors. You can also publish it within your team, ensuring only team members can access it. Learn more at manus.im/team.
Q: Do I need to manually submit my site to Google Search Console?
A: It is not strictly required, but we highly recommend it. Submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console can significantly speed up the discovery and indexing process.
The addition of built-in SEO to Manus Web App marks a significant step in our mission to provide a truly all-in-one platform for creating and distributing powerful web applications. It removes a major barrier to success, ensuring the websites you build with Manus achieve the search visibility they deserve. This is just the beginning of our investment in a smarter, more integrated development experience. We can’t wait to see what you build—and how the world discovers it on search engines.
Less structure,
more intelligence.
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