Get better page titles and descriptions
Page titles and descriptions are your site's shop window in Google — and on most sites they're still whatever the platform generated: 'Home', 'About', 'Untitled'. They're the easiest search-engine win there is, and on a bernard-hosted site you don't need to find the settings panel: you just ask.
How it works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI (it contains a key that works for 12 hours).
- Paste it into your AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use — then ask in your own words, or use the prompt below.
- Approve. The AI sends back a preview link and a list of what it changed. Check the new titles read true, press Approve, and it's live.
Your AI is responsible for your site's search presence when it edits — bernard requires it to preserve or improve titles, descriptions and headings, never quietly delete them. Asking it to do a deliberate pass over them is using that responsibility to your advantage.
The prompt
“Look at the titles and descriptions of every page on my site and rewrite the weak ones so people searching for [what you make or do] in [your area, if local] would click — show me each change.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- How do I change the page title that shows in Google?
- If your site is hosted with bernard, ask your AI — ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — to rewrite the page's title and description. They're plain text in your pages, which the AI edits directly; nothing changes until you approve the preview.
- What makes a good page title for search?
- Say what's on the page in the words a stranger would search — 'Hand-thrown stoneware mugs, made in Whitstable' beats 'Home'. Ask the AI to write them that way; it knows the patterns and your pages.
- Will better titles really get me more visitors?
- Titles and descriptions are what people see in search results and what AI assistants quote when recommending you, so they decide whether anyone clicks. It's one of the highest-value small edits a site can get — and you approve every change on a preview first.