When your business shows up in search results, people see a short blue heading and a line of text underneath. Those two pieces come from your page title and meta description, and you can edit both yourself inside Wix. This guide shows where to click, what to write, and what to expect afterwards. It is not made by, partnered with or endorsed by Wix.
The page title is the clickable heading in search results and the text in the browser tab. The meta description is the short summary below it. Google may rewrite either one if it thinks something on your page fits the search better, but a clear title and description give it good material to work with.
Think of them as your shop sign and the note in the window. Someone scanning results should be able to tell what you do and whether you serve their area without clicking.
Open your Wix dashboard and go to the editor or the site menu, depending on which version you use. Find the page you want to change in the pages list, open its settings, and look for the SEO tab. In newer accounts you can also open the SEO area of the dashboard and edit page by page from one list.
Inside the SEO settings you will see fields usually labelled title tag and meta description, with a preview showing roughly how the result could look. Type your text, save, and publish the site. Nothing changes publicly until you publish.
Keep the title short enough to read at a glance and put the useful words first. A simple pattern is the service, then the city or area, then your business name. Avoid stacking city names together or repeating the same word over and over, since that reads as clutter to people as well as to search engines.
For the description, write the way you would answer a customer on the phone. Say what you do, where you work, and one thing that helps them decide, such as evening appointments or free estimates. End with a plain nudge like call or book online.
Google has to crawl the page again before the new text can appear, so the change is not instant. Pages that are visited and linked often tend to be picked up sooner than pages buried deep in the menu. Check back over the following days and weeks rather than the same afternoon.
You can usually speed things along by publishing the site, making sure the page is linked from your menu, and requesting indexing in a search console account if you have one set up. Then leave it alone. Rewriting the title every few days makes it harder to tell what is working.
A good title brings someone to the page, but the page still has to load and read well. Open your page in a free speed tool such as pagespeed.web.dev and look at Largest Contentful Paint, which is good at 2.5 seconds or less and poor over 4 seconds, Cumulative Layout Shift at 0.1, and Interaction to Next Paint at 200 milliseconds.
While you are there, confirm your business name, address, phone number and hours match what is listed on your Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Mismatched details confuse customers more than any title tag ever will.
This guide was written with AI help and checked by an automatic honesty filter (no made-up numbers, no ranking promises). It is general information, not professional advice.
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