Launch Your Website

Launching your website is an easy process. You will be making small changes to your domain name and simple changes inside Congregate Admin.

Step 1: Prepare your site and its content

When you decide to launch your Congregate website is always up to you. You can always add, edit, and remove content when your site is live.

Your site does not have to be “complete” before launch; it can be a work-in-progress and always improving.

Step 2: Connect your domain name

Follow the instructions in our configuring your domain name documentation in order to connect your domain name to your Congregate site.

You’ll need access to your domain name service provider to connect your domain name.

Step 3: Update your website address in Congregate

After you’ve configured your domain name and have confirmed your site loads when entering your domain name inside your browser, you can then update your website address inside Congregate Admin. Follow the instructions for changing your website URL in our settings documentation.

Only update your website URL after you’ve confirmed your domain name is fully connected.

Step 4: Enable search engine indexing

After your website address has been updated, you’ll want to activate search engine indexing in order to allow Google and others to index your site and its content. Follow the instructions for activating search engine indexing in the settings documentation.

Be advised Congregate (or any other hosting provider) has no control over when, if, and how your website will be displayed on Google or any other search engine, and there is no way to guarantee a particular ranking on search engines.