Website Content
Website content turns workspace configuration into a usable public presence. The console owns the editing surfaces; sites renders the customer experience.
Website
Use Website to manage:
- Homepage.
- Custom pages.
- Page builder blocks.
- Navigation.
- Footer sections.
- Legal links.
- Brand media.
- Public preview.
Every page should answer a customer question or drive a customer action. Avoid publishing placeholder pages.
Use the Website area as the customer-facing composition layer, not as a duplicate database. If a page needs live products, services, forms, reviews, or help articles, use blocks that read those records instead of copying the same text into static content. That keeps customer pages current when operators update the source record.
Content Model
Pages
Source of truth: Website
Best used for: Durable site structure such as home, about, policies, and landing pages
Products
Source of truth: Products
Best used for: Sellable items, variants, inventory, shipping, tax, and checkout behavior
Services
Source of truth: Scheduling
Best used for: Bookable offers, pricing, duration, staff, intake, and payment timing
Forms
Source of truth: Forms
Best used for: Structured customer submissions and intake
Stories
Source of truth: Stories
Best used for: Editorial resources, guides, campaign content, and local discovery
Help articles
Source of truth: Help and knowledge content
Best used for: Customer self-service answers and ticket deflection
Reviews
Source of truth: Reviews or Google Business Profile
Best used for: Reputation proof and customer feedback
When a customer-facing section mixes several record types, name the owner before editing. For example, a service landing page may be owned by Website, but the service price and availability should still be owned by Scheduling.
Page Builder Blocks
Common public-site blocks include:
- Hero and section headers.
- Rich text.
- Feature grids.
- FAQ accordions.
- Calls to action.
- Product grids.
- Service grids.
- Forms.
- Articles or stories lists.
- Background media.
Use product and service blocks when you want the public site to pull live catalog or booking data rather than duplicating content.
Before publishing a page with dynamic blocks, verify the empty state, loading state, mobile layout, and the behavior when the underlying product, service, form, or article is unpublished.
Forms
Forms collect structured customer input. Use them for:
- Contact requests.
- Intake.
- Consent.
- Quotes.
- Support.
- Feedback.
- Pre-booking or post-purchase details.
Submitted forms should land in the console where the team already triages work. Test every required field, file upload, confirmation state, and notification before launch.
Stories
Stories are editorial content for resource pages, news, guides, local SEO, or campaigns. They can support categories, tags, authors, search, sharing, and article-specific metadata.
Use Stories when the content should behave like a publication. Use Pages when the content is durable site structure.
Story content should have a clear distribution path: navigation, related content, campaign link, search route, or email campaign. A story that cannot be discovered by customers should remain draft until the team knows where it belongs.
Help And Knowledge Content
Help surfaces let customers self-serve:
- Help landing page.
- Decision trees.
- Knowledge articles.
- Category pages.
- Search.
- Article voting.
- Ticket escalation when an answer does not solve the issue.
Good help content reduces inbox volume and gives the team a consistent answer to reuse.
Discovery
Discovery covers how the site is found and shared:
- SEO titles and descriptions.
- Redirects and short links.
- GEO and answer-engine content.
- Search verification.
- Sitemap and robots.
- Open Graph previews.
- IndexNow when configured.
Use redirects and short links for campaign paths that operators need to copy, print, or change later.
Reviews
Reviews can be managed through the console and connected to Google Business Profile when available. Public review surfaces should make the real customer source clear and should not promise review sync unless the integration is connected.
Review display should be intentional: choose where reviews support trust, how stale reviews are handled, who can respond, and what happens when the Google Business Profile connection disconnects.
Publishing Preview
Before publishing, compare console and site state:
Page status is published
Public-site proof: Route loads without preview access
Navigation includes the page
Public-site proof: Header, footer, or internal links expose it intentionally
Dynamic block has source data
Public-site proof: Block renders products, services, forms, reviews, or articles correctly
Metadata is complete
Public-site proof: Browser title, description, social preview, and canonical URL are correct
Forms and CTAs are connected
Public-site proof: Submissions or actions appear in the intended console surface
Mobile layout is usable
Public-site proof: Primary action is visible and text does not collide
Content Publishing Rules
- Prefer one source of truth. A product description should live on the product when product blocks render it.
- Verify mobile layout before launch.
- Keep legal and policy links visible.
- Re-test public pages after changing branding, navigation, footer, domains, or site status.
- Use Discovery to check how a page appears outside the site.