Advanced Settings
Advanced options to help you get the most out of your Prezly site
Sites, also commonly called newsrooms, are one of the central point of Prezly. This guide covers advanced options for your Prezly site and how to use them effectively. You’ll learn how to fine‑tune SEO, privacy, cookies, publishing, and more.
SEO Settings
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps new audiences discover your content via major search engines. In Prezly, you can adjust essential SEO settings so search engines can index your site and stories.
SEO settings are available on Standard and Enterprise plans only. Legacy Prezly site themes do not support this feature.
To change your site’s SEO settings, go to your site settings by clicking the site name in your sites grid, and then open the “SEO settings” card.
Search engine visibility
By default, your website is visible to search engines like Google and Bing. You can toggle search engine visibility on or off in this section. Turning this off makes your site private and not indexable by search engines.
Connect Google Search Console
Connect your Google Search Console (GSC) account to your Prezly site to get insights into your search analytics via Google. To enable this, paste your GSC verification tag into the field provided; you can find your tag here.
Meta title and description
Control how your site appears in search results by customizing the meta title and description. You can set different meta titles and descriptions for each enabled site language.
By default we use the site name as the meta title, and the about/boilerplate section as the description.
Privacy & Cookies settings
Prezly provides standardized text for your email footers and cookie statements out of the box. You can override and customize these to follow your brand’s communication style and guidelines.
To access Privacy & Cookie settings, open your site settings by clicking the site name in your sites grid, then click the “Privacy & Cookies” card.
Privacy settings
Define how you inform users about the data you collect and how it’s used—either by linking external privacy pages or by adding custom text.
Privacy policy link
Choose how to display your privacy policy
- Default: Uses Prezly’s default privacy policy
- Custom link: Add your own privacy policy link to your Prezly site (external page)
- Custom text: Edit your Prezly privacy policy page with your own text. You can add titles, formatting, and links
Custom data request link
If you’re on a custom Enterprise plan, you can also add an external data request link.
Cookie settings
To support your internal compliance requirements, Prezly offers flexible cookie settings.
Cookie Policy
Customize your cookie policy the same way as privacy settings
- Default: Uses Prezly’s default cookie policy, which you can check here.
- Custom link: Link to your own cookie policy page.
- Custom text: Edit the cookie policy page with your own text (titles, formatting, links).
Tracking policy
Choose how cookies are handled on your Prezly site
- Normal (Default): Essential cookies are set by default. If permission is granted to load first‑party analytics, those cookies are set as well.
- Strict: No cookies are set by default. After the cookie bar interaction, cookies are set according to user preferences.
- Lenient (Only for internal sites): For intranets only. Sets cookies and doesn’t show the cookie bar. Not GDPR‑compliant—use only if you know what you’re doing.
Cookie settings can impact user experience.
If third‑party cookies are blocked, we won’t load embeds (for example, YouTube) directly within your story, since they set cookies. Instead, visitors are redirected to the third‑party site.
Cookie bar
In both Strict and Normal modes, Prezly loads a cookie bar, allowing visitors to set their cookie preferences.
When clicking “Manage preferences,” visitors see additional controls to allow or reject specific cookie categories.
If your site uses the OneTrust integration (see below), the OneTrust cookie bar will be loaded instead.
Email and cookies text
You can customize your email footer, cookie statement, and subscribe information.
Email footer
Automatically added to the bottom of every email, allowing people to unsubscribe or access the privacy form. The %companyname% token includes the site name and the legal entity name that owns the Prezly account.
You can define different messages for different languages if you have multi-language enabled on your site.
Always keep an unsubscribe link. Removing it can cause your email campaigns to be marked as spam.
Cookie statement
Controls the text displayed in the cookie banner when first visiting your Prezly site.
Subscribe information
The disclaimer text shown to users after they subscribe to your site’s communications.
OneTrust cookie consent integration
Prezly allows you to use your OneTrust integration for cookie consent management. Follow these steps to integrate OneTrust with your site.
Configure OneTrust integration
Open your site’s Integrations by clicking the site name in your sites grid, then click the Integrations card. Then, find OneTrust cookie consent settings (1), open it, and toggle it on (2).
Finding your category number (Cookie Group IDs)
After heading to your OneTrust dashboard
- Go to the Cookie Consent menu and select Categorizations.
- Go to the Categories tab.
- Locate the cookie groups and note the ID assigned to the relevant group.
Once you get this value add it to your OneTrust integration "Category" field.
In most default settings the category id for Prezly will be under "Performance cookies" but this depends on your personal OneTrust account's settings ultimately
Publishing and Implementing Cookie Consent Scripts
This is an extensive article so it's best to go to the source article (from OneTrust), here's where you'll obtain the value to be pasted in this field @Prezly.
Once you have the script, you can paste it in your "Script" field in the integration panel.
Don't click "Enable" just yet, you'll need to setup one last thing first.
Enabling SPA support via the OneTrust dashboard
When publishing the OneTrust script, enable “Enable Single Page Application Support.” This forces the banner to reload as it would on a page change.
Finalize in Prezly
Return to your Prezly app and click “Enable.” If everything is configured correctly, your OneTrust cookie banner will be up and running on your Prezly site.
If anything remains unclear or you need help from our team, reach out via any of our available support channels.
Advanced settings
The advanced settings page includes things like your site's time and date formats, its visibility/status, or the ability to remove it from your account.
To access Advanced settings, go to your site settings by clicking the site name in your sites grid, and then open the “Advanced” card.
Time & Date
Allows you to define your timezone, and date/time format.
- Timezone: Impacts scheduled stories, embargoes, and reporting.
- Date format: Controls how dates are displayed on your site.
- Time format: Controls how time is displayed on your site.
To setup your account date & time formats go to your Personal settings → Time & Date preferences
Live vs non-live status
When a site is created, it’s set to Live mode by default. This means the URL can be visited even before the site is fully set up.
You can switch the site to non‑live if you’re still preparing and setting up your site before sharing it with your audience.
Switching to non‑live is useful if you plan to pause work on a site for a longer period without losing any settings or stories added to it.
How to switch between live and non-live?
Toggle site visibility in the “Danger zone” area of your Advanced site settings page. After clicking the toggle, you’ll be asked to confirm the status change.
Alternatively, you can switch visibility by clicking the “Live”/“Non‑live” chip in the top bar (where available).
Limitations of Non-live sites
In non‑live mode, the site isn’t indexed, analytics aren’t collected, and campaign emails show a warning about the site’s status.
We don’t recommend sending campaigns while a site is non‑live (preview URLs can change and recipients may hit a dead end).
Non-live sites in your plan
Non-live sites can be created anytime, and they don't count for your plan's site limit. This means that even if you have reached your maximum number of sites included in your plan you can still create new (non-live).
Then, if you need to set it live you can always purchase an additional site slot for your account.
Deleting a site
When you no longer wish to keep a site active, or you would like to deactivate a site to make space for a new one, you can choose to make it "non-live". But sometimes, you really want/need to delete it or completely.
To do so, you just need to click the "Delete site" button and confirm your action.
