Publishing Your Site

Make your website, funnel, or landing page live for the world to see. Your site is deployed to a global CDN for fast loading anywhere.

Publishing Center
The Publishing Center shows your project's publish status and history

Publishing Workflow

The publishing process ensures your site is built correctly and deployed to our global infrastructure:

1

Preview Your Site

Click Preview to see exactly how your site will appear to visitors. Test on desktop, tablet, and mobile views.

2

Click Publish

When you're ready, click the Publish button in the top toolbar or go to the Publishing Center.

3

Build Process

The system builds an optimized version of your site with all SEO elements. This typically takes 30-60 seconds.

4

CDN Deployment

Your site is deployed to our global CDN (Content Delivery Network) for fast loading worldwide.

5

Site is Live

Your site is now accessible at its URL. Share the link with your audience!

What Gets Published

When you publish, the following is automatically generated and deployed:

All Pages

Every page in your project with optimized HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Media & Assets

Images, videos, and other uploaded files served from our CDN.

SEO Elements

Sitemap, robots.txt, meta tags, and structured data.

SEO Infrastructure

Published sites include comprehensive SEO elements automatically:

Element Description Generated
sitemap.xml XML sitemap listing all pages for search engines Automatic
robots.txt Instructions for search engine crawlers Automatic
Open Graph Facebook/LinkedIn sharing metadata Automatic
Twitter Cards Twitter sharing metadata Automatic
Canonical URLs Prevents duplicate content issues Automatic
JSON-LD Structured data for rich snippets Automatic
Business Profile Integration Your footer contact information is automatically populated from your Business Profile when you publish. Update your Business Profile to change contact info across all pages.

Publish Status

Status Meaning
Published Your site is live and matches your latest edits
Changes Pending You have unpublished changes since last publish
Draft Site has never been published
Building Publish in progress, site being built
Failed Publish failed - check for errors

Site URLs

When you publish, your site is available at:

Default URL Every project gets a free subdomain: your-project.comet-sites.com

Pro, Enterprise, and Agency plans can connect custom domains for professional branding. See Domains for setup instructions.

Unpublishing

Need to take your site offline? You can unpublish from the Publishing Center:

  1. Go to Publishing Center from the sidebar
  2. Click Unpublish
  3. Confirm that you want to take the site offline
Important Unpublishing removes your site from the web immediately. Any links to your site will stop working until you publish again.

Troubleshooting

Publish Failed

If your publish fails, check for:

  • Missing required content (empty pages)
  • Broken image links
  • Invalid form configurations

Changes Not Showing

If your published site doesn't show recent changes:

  • Make sure you clicked Publish after making changes
  • Clear your browser cache or try incognito mode
  • Wait a few minutes for CDN propagation (usually under 1 minute)