Notion is a stellar tool for storing, displaying, and managing content. It’s sleek, easy to use, and helps you create shareable web pages.
But those are some very basic website building features that won’t cut it for modern businesses.
They can’t scale unless potential leads find their way to their website from different channels, the most cost-effective one being organic search. There is no better way to attract relevant traffic than optimizing content for search engines.
Notion alone is not the best tool for SEO, it can help you create a responsive website with a free SSL certificate. However, the SEO checklist is much larger - Your website must be fast, engaging, secure, keyword optimized - and most importantly, helpful to your readers. Does that mean you can’t create advanced search engine optimized websites with Notion? Not unless you use Super.
Super helps you create appealing websites through Notion while supporting all the SEO capabilities required to rank your content.
Is Notion good for SEO?
Your domain name is the identity of your website. It’s the name you assign to your space on the internet.
Once you build your brand, your domain is what people search on Google to find you and avail your services. That category of searches is called brand search and it’s known to convert traffic into leads at a higher rate than any other form of search.
Also, having a keyword in the domain name will earn SEO brownie points. In short, the domain name is what everything circles around.
But it will cost you $12 per month just to connect a custom domain with Notion. You get many more features with the Super plus plan at the same cost when paid annually.
Free Notion sites are assigned an AI-generated domain names - the below image exemplifies the randomness.
The notion.site element indicates that the website continues to be under Notion’s domain, which means you don’t own the space. All the content you create - you create for Notion. That’s a bad place to be in if you run a legit business.
Let’s change that.
Super lets you customize the domain name of your website on Notion along with many other features at nearly the same cost. It acts as an interface that takes your content on Notion and puts it under the domain name of your choice.
The below image is an example of a website with a custom domain. It was created with Super.
Search engines are always on the lookout for new content. When they discover your page, they dig deeper to understand what the page is about. The meta-title and meta-description of a page must summarize the content on the page for the search engines’ easy consumption.
You must include the primary keyword in both and add the value proposition. In addition to helping search engines, both copies play a crucial role in improving the click-through rate (CTR). They should highlight the pain point they solve to encourage viewers to click.