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title: "How to Edit Your Settings"
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[USASearch](http://usasearch.howto.gov) > [Admin Center](https://search.usa.gov/sites/) > YourSite > Dashboard > Settings

## Display Name (Required)

Tell us the name of your website. Searchers see your site name on the results page, such as in your page title or best bets. We recommend using the plain language name for your agency or site, such as National Institutes of Health.

## Site Handle (Required)

We use your site handle in the HTTP request to specify displaying your customized settings. We recommend making this handle short and unique, such as nih.

![Site name and handle on NIH.gov's search results page](https://9fddeb862c037f6d2190-f1564c64756a8cfee25b6b19953b1d23.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/settings.png)

## Site ID (System Generated)

We assign a unique numeric ID to your site. We use this ID for some back-end code. You also see this ID in the URL for your site in the [Admin Center](https://search.usa.gov/sites/).

## Site Language (Required)

Choose a language for your site, English or Spanish. We will only index and provide results for pages in your selected language. All display text on the results page will also be in your selected language.

## Delete

After you've set up a site, you may want to delete it. **Use caution.** This action permanently deletes your site and its associated analytics and indexes. We cannot restore deleted sites.

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***Troubleshooting Tip:*** If you later need to edit your site handle or language, e-mail us at <<EMAIL>>.<commit_msg>Add homepage URL to Settings help<commit_after>---
permalink: /sites/manual/settings.html
layout: post
title: "How to Edit Your Settings"
tags: how-to dashboard settings
---

[USASearch](http://usasearch.howto.gov) > [Admin Center](https://search.usa.gov/sites/) > YourSite > Dashboard > Settings

## Display Name

Tell us the name of your website. Searchers see your site name on the results page, such as in your page title or best bets. We recommend using the plain language name for your agency or site, such as National Institutes of Health.

## Homepage URL

Tell us the homepage URL of your website. Enter a fully qualified URL, including http://, http://www, etc. 

**Correct Syntax**

* http://www.whitehouse.gov  
* http://louisiana.gov    
* http://www.usa.gov/gobiernousa/  
* http://nimh.nih.gov/  
* http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/   

**Incorrect Syntax**

* usa.gov (use http://www.usa.gov)  
* www.nasa.gov (use http://www.nasa.gov)  
* http://www.ftc.gov/opa/index.shtml (use the higher-level folder, http://www.ftc.gov/opa)  
* http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100000?utm_source=OCM&utm_medium=print-radio&utm_term=&utm_campaign=shortcuts (use the higher-level domain, http://www.gsa.gov)
* http://www.doc.gov (use the domain that resolves, http://www.commerce.gov)  

We use this homepage URL to (a) populate your primary [domain](/sites/manual/domains.html) and (b) link the default logo on your results page to your homepage.

## Site Handle

You created your site handle when you originally added your site. We use your site handle in the HTTP request to display your custom settings. Searchers can see your site handle in the browser's address bar. We recommend making this handle short and unique, such as nih. If you'd like to edit your site handle, e-mail us at <<EMAIL>>.

![Site name and handle on NIH.gov's search results page](https://9fddeb862c037f6d2190-f1564c64756a8cfee25b6b19953b1d23.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/settings.png)

## Site ID

We assign a unique, system-generated numeric ID to your site. We use this ID for some back-end code. You can see this ID in the URL for your site in the [Admin Center](https://search.usa.gov/sites/).

## Site Language

You chose the language (English or Spanish) for your site when you originally added your site. We'll only index and provide results for pages in your selected language. All display text on the results page will also be in your selected language. If you'd like to edit your site's language, e-mail us at <<EMAIL>>.

## Delete

After you've set up a site, you may want to delete it. **Use caution.** This action permanently deletes your site and its associated analytics and indexes. We cannot restore deleted sites.
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