Framer SEO Problems: What the Community Reports (2026)

The Real Picture

We scraped 1,199 posts from Framer's community forum. SEO was one of the most frustrating topics: not because Framer is bad at SEO, but because it gives you just enough control to get started, and not enough to finish.

Framer generates clean HTML. It lets you set meta titles and descriptions. It creates a sitemap. On paper, the basics are covered. But the moment you try to do anything beyond the basics (fix an indexing error, add structured data, control how your favicon renders in search results, or manage SEO for thousands of CMS pages), you run into walls that no amount of Framer knowledge can fix.

What follows is not speculation. Every community post referenced below is a real thread title from Framer's official community support forum.

Google won't index my site

The single most common SEO complaint on Framer's forum is some variation of: "Why is my site not showing up on Google?" The frustration is palpable because users have done everything Framer tells them to do (set the meta tags, publish the sitemap), and Google still ignores them.

The indexing problem has several root causes. Framer's free subdomain (yoursite.framer.app) is deprioritized by Google because thousands of sites share the same root domain. Sitemap generation is automatic, which means you cannot exclude specific pages or prioritize important ones. And when redirect errors occur between Framer's infrastructure and Google's crawlers, there is no server-level access to debug the issue.

This one is particularly alarming. When Google confuses your Framer site with another one hosted on the same infrastructure, you have almost no levers to pull. You cannot edit your robots.txt beyond what Framer exposes. You cannot set custom canonical tags at the server level. You are dependent on Framer's infrastructure to sort it out.

The favicon problem nobody warns you about

This might sound like a minor issue. It is not. Your favicon is the tiny icon that appears next to your site name in Google search results, browser tabs, and bookmarks. It is one of the first trust signals a user sees. And Framer has a well-documented problem with it.

The pattern is consistent: users upload a custom favicon in Framer, but Google continues to show the Framer logo in search results for weeks or even months. This happens because Google caches favicons aggressively, and Framer's favicon implementation does not always give Google the right signals to update. When you host your own code, you control the exact <link rel="icon"> tags, the file format, the cache headers, and the placement. Google picks it up within days.

No schema, no structured data, no control

Modern SEO goes far beyond meta titles and descriptions. Google uses structured data (JSON-LD schema markup) to understand what your page is about, display rich snippets, and power features like FAQ dropdowns, product ratings, and article carousels in search results. Framer offers no built-in way to add any of this.

Here is what you cannot do natively in Framer:

• JSON-LD structured data: No Article, FAQ, Product, LocalBusiness, or any other schema type
• Custom robots.txt rules: You cannot block specific crawlers, set crawl-delay, or add custom directives
• Hreflang tags: Essential for multilingual sites, completely unsupported
• Granular sitemap control: Cannot set priority, change frequency, or exclude specific URLs
• Custom canonical URLs: Limited control over how duplicate content is handled
• Per-page meta robots: Cannot noindex specific CMS pages while indexing others

These are not edge cases. Wanting to control which pages appear in Google, which images get indexed, and how meta tags are set are fundamental SEO operations. That users are posting these questions means Framer's interface is either not exposing these controls or making them hard to find.

CMS-heavy sites face the worst of it. When you have thousands of pages generated from Framer's CMS, SEO-friendly pagination, proper internal linking structures, and crawl budget management become critical. Framer gives you none of these tools. You are left trying to make a design tool do the job of a content platform.

Even Framer's own UI components can create SEO issues. When a visual effect generates invalid HTML structure, it affects accessibility scores and Core Web Vitals. You cannot fix the underlying code because Framer controls the output.

The workarounds people are building

What is telling about Framer's SEO situation is not just the complaints, but the complexity of the workarounds people are building to fill the gaps. These are not simple fixes. They require developer-level knowledge, external services, and ongoing maintenance.

Let that sink in. Users are deploying Cloudflare Workers (serverless functions that intercept and modify HTTP responses) just to add basic SEO features to their Framer sites. They are building custom IndexNow implementations to notify search engines of content changes, something that should be a checkbox in the CMS settings. And they are asking how to add an llms.txt file (a new standard for AI crawler instructions), which requires file-level access to your web root that Framer does not provide.

What full code ownership gives you for SEO

When you export your Framer site to code and self-host, every SEO limitation disappears. You are no longer constrained by what a visual editor exposes. You own the HTML, the server configuration, and every file in your web root.

With your own code, adding FAQ schema is a few lines of JSON-LD in the page head. Setting up hreflang for three languages is a handful of <link> tags. Customizing your sitemap means editing an XML file. Fixing a favicon takes 30 seconds. These are not complex engineering tasks. They are basic web operations that every hosting platform supports out of the box.

The difference is not about skill. It is about access. Framer does not give you access to the things that matter for SEO beyond the basics -- and SEO is just one of many areas where the platform falls short. For a complete overview of every Framer limitation, see our complete Framer limitations guide. Exported code gives you access to everything.