Why you should unpublish incomplete pages in Showit

Quick answer

If a page is still being designed, missing content, or not ready for visitors — unpublish it. In Showit, open the Pages panel, click the three dots beside the page, and select Unpublish. This keeps your site clean and stops unfinished pages from appearing in search results.

How to fix it in Showit

1. Open Showit

2. Go to the Pages panel on the left-hand side

3. Find the page you want to unpublish

4. Click the three dots beside the page

5. Select Unpublish

6. The page will no longer be publicly accessible on your website

7. Re-publish the page once the design is complete, SEO settings are added, headings are organised, images are optimised, and the content is ready for visitors and bots to read

What's the issue

Any page that is live on your website can be found and indexed by Google and AI bots. If that page is incomplete — missing content, missing SEO settings, or still being designed — it can be indexed as thin or low-quality content, confuse bots about your site structure, and create a poor experience for any visitors who land on it.

Why it matters

• Search engines and AI bots index whatever is publicly accessible on your site. Incomplete pages — ones with placeholder text, missing headings, no meta description, or unfinished design — can be indexed as low-quality content. This can affect how Google views your overall site quality and how AI bots understand your website structure. Keeping unfinished pages unpublished means search engines only ever see your best, most complete work.

What good looks like

Every page that is live on your site is complete — it has a page title, meta description, social sharing image, at least one H1, and content that is ready for visitors to read. Any page that is still in progress is unpublished until it meets that standard.