General Settings

The General tab is your site's configuration hub. Every change here affects the site globally — from what appears in the browser tab, to how search engines and AI crawlers discover your pages, to the background music visitors hear.

Navigate to your site → General tab.

Saving Changes

All fields on this page share a single Save Changes button in the top-right corner of the panel. Changes are not applied until you click Save Changes — you can edit multiple fields and save them all in one action.

This includes Site Identity, Favicon, the Floating light/dark button, SEO, AEO & GEO Site Settings, and the Music panel below — one click persists all of them together.

Site Identity - Site Name

The site name is your internal label — it appears in your dashboard site cards, the browser tab title when editing, and in any places where the site is referenced by name. Renaming the site does not change the slug or domain.

Slug

The slug is the URL-safe identifier used to build your site's default subdomain. For example, a slug of abc generates the domain abc.sites.tdcapps.com.

Slug format rules:

• Lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only
• No spaces — use hyphens instead (e.g., my-site, not my site)
• The new subdomain is shown below the field in real time as you type

Favicon

A favicon is the small icon that appears in browser tabs, bookmarks, and link previews. Blox supports separate favicons for light mode and dark mode so your icon always looks sharp regardless of the visitor's system theme.

Supported Formats & Size

Light Mode Favicon

Displayed when the visitor's operating system is in light mode. Click Upload to open the file picker, or drag-and-drop a file onto the upload area.

• The uploaded image appears as a 40×40 px preview on a light background so you can verify it looks correct
• A Remove button appears after uploading — click it to clear the favicon
• You must click Save Changes after uploading to persist the change

Dark Mode Favicon

Identical behaviour to the Light Mode favicon, but displayed when the visitor's OS is in dark mode. The preview renders on a dark background.

If you don't upload a Dark Mode favicon, the browser falls back to the Light Mode favicon — the dark mode field is optional.

Upload Errors

Floating light/dark button

A switch below the favicons, off by default. When it is on, your live site shows a small round light/dark toggle in the bottom-right corner whenever visitors can't reach one in the header or footer (for example, the header has no toggle, or it's hidden in a closed mobile menu). When it is off, visitors can switch modes only with a header or footer toggle. Click Save Changes to apply.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This card controls how the whole site appears in Google Search, social previews, and AI crawlers.

Allow Search Engines

When on: Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) are allowed to crawl and index all pages on this site. This is the correct setting for any live production site.

When off: The server sends an X-Robots-Tag: noindex header on every response. Search engines that respect this header will de-index the site. Use this during development, for staging sites, or for private client sites you don't want appearing in search results.

Enable sitemap.xml

When on: Blox automatically generates a sitemap.xml file and serves it at https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. This file lists all active, indexable pages along with their last-modified date, change frequency, and priority — the exact values set in each page's individual SEO settings.

Submitting this URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools helps search engines discover and index your pages faster.

When off: No sitemap is served. Pages can still be indexed if search bots discover them through links, but it will be slower.

Public Display Name

The brand name shown in Google Search results, social share previews, and structured data (the JSON-LD Organization/WebSite graph embedded on every page). Leave it blank to fall back to the Site Name field above.

Use this when your internal site name (e.g. a project codename) shouldn't be the public-facing brand name search engines and AI assistants see.

Canonical Base Domain

The canonical base domain is the authoritative URL prefix used in:

• All <link rel="canonical"> tags generated for your pages
• Sitemap <loc> entries
• The base URL used to build page links in /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt

When to set this:

If you have a custom domain configured (e.g., https://mycompany.com) and want all canonical tags to reference that domain instead of the auto-generated subdomain, enter it here. This prevents duplicate content issues if your site is accessible from multiple URLs.

Correct format:   https://mycompany.com
Not:              mycompany.com  (missing https://)
Not:              https://mycompany.com/  (trailing slash)

Leave it blank if you're only using the default subdomain — the subdomain URL will be used automatically.

Disallow Crawling on Specific Pages (Robots.txt)

This subsection lives inside the same SEO card, below Canonical Base Domain, and lets you block search engines from crawling specific pages by adding Disallow rules to your site's robots.txt file.

How it works: each page in your site appears in a scrollable list (its own internal scrollbar once there are more pages than fit) showing its name and slug. Toggle a page on to add it to the disallow list, or off to remove it.

When you Save Changes, the following robots.txt rules are generated automatically:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /page-slug
Disallow: /another-page-slug

These rules tell compliant search bots not to crawl the specified URLs. Already-indexed pages won't be immediately removed — they'll eventually be de-indexed as bots re-crawl.

When to disallow pages:

Relationship with per-page noindex: you have two complementary tools for controlling search engine visibility:

For maximum exclusion, use both on the same page. For pages where you want to crawl-but-not-index (to pass link equity), use only the per-page noIndex toggle.

AEO & GEO Site Settings

This card appears directly below the SEO card, with a purple accent bar and an "AI Search" badge.

Enable /llms.txt & /llms-full.txt

When on, TDC Site Builder serves two standardized, markdown-formatted knowledge indexes that LLM crawlers can fetch directly instead of parsing rendered HTML:

• /llms.txt — a short summary: site name, brand context, a linked list of every crawlable page with its AI summary or meta description, organization/contact details, and your custom notes.
• /llms-full.txt — a longer index: the same plus each page's full AI Key Takeaways (RAG Summary) and AEO Q&A/FAQs (set per-page in Per-Page SEO Settings).

Both files are generated live from your current published content — there's nothing to regenerate manually.

Custom LLMs.txt Notes

Free-text notes appended to /llms.txt under an "Additional Information" heading — use it for brand instructions, canonical links, or anything else you want an AI assistant to read before it answers questions about your site.

Organization Schema (Brand Entity Graph)

Four optional fields, laid out two per row:

This is the same Organization entity referenced by every page's own JSON-LD graph (see AEO & GEO Optimization) — filling it in once here applies it site-wide. If left blank, the graph falls back to your Site Name with no contact details.

AI Search Crawlers Permissions (Robots.txt)

Four toggles, each allowed by default:

Turning a bot off adds a Disallow: / rule for that specific user-agent to robots.txt; leaving it on adds Allow: /. Use this if you want your site indexed by traditional search engines but excluded from a specific AI provider's crawl.

Download Site

Exports the site as a portable bundle:

• Complete site schema and published-page snapshots, as JSON
• All referenced media assets (images, audio, video), bundled alongside
• Delivered as a single downloadable ZIP archive

Click Download Site to start the export — the button shows Preparing… while the bundle is built, then your browser downloads the ZIP. This is a standalone action, separate from the Save Changes button above.

Search

Your site's search (the header search bar and Search blocks) updates on its own: publishing, restoring a version, renaming or deactivating a page, unpublishing a post, editing CMS items and changing the site language all update it automatically.

If results ever look out of date, click Rebuild search index. It rebuilds this site's search from its live content: published pages and blog posts, and the CMS items your published pages display. The button shows Rebuilding… while it runs, then reports what was indexed. You can rebuild once a minute. This is a standalone action, separate from the Save Changes button above.

Music

Site Music Player

Turns the floating music player on or off for the published site. When off, the rest of the Music card is dimmed and disabled, and no player renders for visitors — regardless of how many tracks are configured below.

Player Behavior

Tracks

Click Add Track to add a row. Each track has:

Choosing audio: the upload button next to the URL field opens the asset library, filtered to audio files. Upload a new file or pick an existing one from your site's asset library — selecting one fills in the URL automatically (and the title too, if you haven't typed one yet).

Supported upload formats: MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A, AAC, FLAC, up to 50 MB per file.

Reordering: drag a track by its grip handle to reorder the playlist, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys.

Removing: click the trash icon on a track's row to delete it.

Music settings are saved together with everything else on the page via the header's Save Changes button — there's no separate save action for the Music panel.

Delete Site

The Delete site section appears at the bottom of the General tab, only visible to users with site management permissions.

Deletion Flow

Click the red Delete site button in the danger zone.

A confirmation dialog opens. Read the warning carefully:

"This action is permanent and cannot be undone. All pages, sections, blocks, version history, and domain settings will be deleted."

In the confirmation field, type your exact site name (case-sensitive) to unlock the delete button. The button remains disabled until the text matches exactly.

Click the red Delete site button in the dialog. The site is deleted immediately and you are redirected to the dashboard.

What Is Deleted

Safe Alternative: Hiding the Site

If you're not sure about deleting, use these reversible options instead:

• Deactivate individual pages via the Active Status toggle in Page Manager — visitors get a 404 but no data is lost
• Remove the custom domain to make the site inaccessible from the custom URL while keeping all content
• Revoke team access via the Team tab to prevent further editing

Settings Reference

Related

• Site Overview & Page Manager — Per-page SEO settings that complement the site-wide SEO defaults set here.
• SEO — How search visibility works across TDC Site Builder — metadata, sitemaps, and best practices.
• Domains — Connect a custom domain to use as your Canonical Base Domain.