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Make your app look professional with custom branding. Improve discoverability with built-in SEO tools. The Branding & SEO tab allows you to customize:
  1. Browser tab: Set your tab title and favicon
  2. Auth Portal & Authentication email branding: Customize auth portal, login methods, and transactional emails
  3. Social Media Previews: Control Open Graph images for social sharing
  4. Built with Hercules Badge: Remove or keep the attribution badge

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Customize Browser tab

Customize how your app appears in browser tabs. Set your:
  • Tab title: The text shown in the browser tab
  • Favicon: The small icon next to the tab title
Browser tab customization

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Customize Auth Portal & Authentication email branding

Customize the look of your auth portal and transactional emails. Go to Branding & SEO → Customize Auth Portal. Your branding is applied to:
  • Auth portal appearance (logo, colors)
  • Login method toggles (Google, Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn, email)
  • Auth portal domain (auth.yourdomain.com)
  • OTP verification emails
See Customize Auth Portal for full details.
Auth portal and email branding

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Customize Social Media Previews (Open Graph Images)

Control the preview image that shows up when you share your app on social media like Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, Whatsapp, iMessage, and more. Set the:
  • Title: Headline when shared
  • Description: Summary text below the title
  • Image: Preview thumbnail
Social media preview settings

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Built with Hercules badge

Free plans show a small “Built with Hercules” badge on all published sites. You can hide this badge by upgrading to a paid plan.
Built with Hercules badge

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Customize the Theme

You can ask Hercules to customize your apps theme. However, you can also choose one of 20 preset themes. Themes customize:
  • Primary and accent colors
  • Light and dark mode options
  • Font choices
  • Button styles
Theme picker

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Improve SEO

Hercules handles the following automatically:
  • Mobile-friendly design
  • Fast page loads
  • Clean HTML structure
  • Sitemap generation
  • SSL encryption
To run a full audit, Ask Hercules
SEO improvement prompt
Do an SEO audit of my site. Give me all your suggestions on how to improve it in priority order

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How do I submit my website to Google and other search engines for indexing?

Hercules generates a sitemap automatically. You can view it by adding sitemap.xml to the end of your domain (e.g. https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml). Each search engine has its own webmaster tools and method for submitting sitemaps. Verify your domain ownership with each engine before submitting.
Submit sitemap:
  1. Go to Google Search Console
  2. Select your site
  3. Select Sitemaps
  4. Enter sitemap.xml under Add a new sitemap
  5. Click Submit
Submit individual URL:
  1. Enter the full URL (including https://www) in the search bar at the top
  2. Press Enter
  3. Click Request Indexing
Submit sitemap:
  1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools
  2. Select your site
  3. Click Sitemaps
  4. Click Submit sitemap
  5. Enter your full sitemap URL (e.g. https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml)
  6. Click Submit
Submit individual URL:
  1. Click URL submission
  2. Click Submit URLs
  3. Enter the full URL (including https://www)
  4. Click Submit
Submit sitemap:
  1. Go to Yandex Webmaster Tools
  2. Select your site
  3. Click Indexing
  4. Select Sitemap tools
  5. Enter your full sitemap URL under Add sitemap file
  6. Click Add
Submit individual URL:
  1. Click Indexing
  2. Select Reindex pages
  3. Enter the full URL (including https://www)
  4. Click Send