Notion is a stellar tool for storing, displaying, and managing content. It’s sleek, easy to use, and helps you create shareable web pages.
But these basic site building features won’t cut it for modern growing businesses that depend on search engine traffic to generate leads. That’s because traffic acquired through SEO efforts is more sustainable that most other marketing channels like social media, newsletters, YouTube, etc.
Notion alone is not the best tool for SEO, it can help you create a responsive website with a free SSL certificate. However, the SEO checklist is much larger - Your website must be fast, engaging, secure, keyword optimized - and most importantly, helpful to your readers. Does that mean you can’t create advanced search engine optimized websites with Notion? Not unless you use Super.
Super helps you create appealing websites through Notion while supporting all the SEO capabilities required to rank your content.
Is Notion good for SEO?
Your domain name is the identity of your website. It’s the name you assign to your space on the Internet.
It is a key contributor to your lead generation strategy because your domain name is what people search on Google to find you and use your services. The category of searches containing your domain name is called branded search, and it usually converts traffic to leads at a much higher rate than any other form of search.
In addition to that, having a keyword in the domain name gets you SEO brownie points.
With so much riding on it, the domain name impacts everything brand and lead-gen.
In other words, you must have a custom domain name to build a thriving online business. But you get a domain with the notion.site extension in the free Notion plan, as opposed to more common and natural-looking extensions like .com, .co, .ai, etc.
The notion.site extension indicates that the website continues to be under Notion’s domain, which means you don’t own the space. All the content you create is under Notion’s ownership. That’s a bad place to be if you run a legit business.
You can get a custom domain extension with Notion sites, but it costs an extra $10 per month, on top of the Plus plan that costs $8 per month without any additional features. You get the same design and performance capabilities as free plan users.
Let’s change that.
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You get many more features with the Super plus plan at $12 per month, when paid annually. That’s 33% cheaper than Notion Sites.
The below image is an example of a Super website with a custom domain.
