Introduction | Yext Hitchhikers Platform

Note

For current Pages customers interested in accessing these new capabilities in addition to the current experience, talk to your account team to learn more about how to rebuild your pages on this new experience.

Overview

Our Pages in-platform experience is built specifically to let marketers spin up thousands of local pages in days instead of quarters - without requiring developer support. Marketers can quickly get started with templates optimized for traditional and AI search, easily make changes in minutes with a visual editor, and instantly create locators and directory pages that seamlessly map content from your Knowledge Graph.

You can:

• Visually adjust our template layout to create pages fit for your business
• Effortlessly customize global styling for your entire site, including brand colors and font selection.
• Quickly add a locator to your site–no need to configure a separate Search experience or work with developers
• Build robust directories to showcase your brand’s full range of locations. Directories not only enhance site structure and user navigation but also significantly boost your SEO by helping you rank for broad, high-intent local searches (e.g., “dentists in Houston”).

Our first release includes one starter template with a collection of pre-built components tied to location entity types. In future releases, we plan to add more components and verticalized starter kits, allow for more entity types and entity relationships, and add more page types such as locators, directories, and static pages.

This guide will walk you through setting up, editing, and publishing a site using the new Pages in-platform features.

Structure of Yext Pages

You’ll create a site that holds your location pages. Each site is typically associated with its own domain. For example, if your website lives at http://example.com, you might host your location pages at http://locations.example.com.

Our first release includes one starter template with all the essentials for location pages so you can get started quickly. The starter consists of an initial layout outlining the page structure and design each location page will use. To customize the layout, you’ll drag and drop components, the building blocks of a page, and modify component properties to change the appearance or data display.

You’ll define a page group, which includes the group of entities to which you want a layout applied and the layout you’ll use. Within a site, you can have multiple page groups to segment your pages by segmenting the underlying entities. Each page group can only have one layout, but by creating multiple page groups, you can create multiple layouts for your site. Each entity can only be tied to one layout – you’d expect each entity only to have one page on your site.

Additionally, your site has global styles – the branding and styling that apply to every page, and thus every layout.