My glide app website does not show up anywhere on google - SEO basics?

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I have a nicely working glide app (assemblycare.org) with a custom domain name. Its been running several years. When I go to google and search Assembly Care Ministries (which is very specific to our website and not at all a search term that would have lots of competition) our site doesn’t come up at all on any of the first 3 or 4 pages. Are there some basics about GlideApps and custom domains that someone could point me to. I feel like something might not be set up right with my app/site (which seems to run great otherwise). Or is this just a feature of GlideApps… that they don’t really do SEO at all?

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Yes, it is feature.

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Glide explicitly changed its approach and now prevents apps from being indexed by search engines. This decision was made for security reasons and is a fundamental security measure within the platform. The majority of Glide users utilize the platform to create apps for business purposes, often creating private and internal applications that they do not want the public to find.

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I see you’re using your GlideApp as a website. What I would recommend in your case, is to create your website using an easy CMS like Wordpress for instance.
If you’re not tech-savvy, just download a theme (definitely not a fan of using themes, but for non-tech people this could be useful). Optimize the website using SEO-optimized content (download Yoast plugin for WP) and link to the GlideApp on a subdomain.

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Thanks everyone.

#1 The obscurity of the app to indexing is sort of a plus for us too since we don’t want the directory scraped. However the rest of the pages of the site… would be helped by SEO.

#2 I set up our “site” back when Glide was both running as pages and an app. Our database has been around since 2007. In the past I’ve had it on Joomla, Wordpress, Knack, and ultimately Glide+Airtable. I may go ahead and slap a Wordpress facade on the main domain.

#3 Harder question if anyone is still looking at this. Would it be possible to put our website (assemblycare.org) on a wordpress but point a subdomian directory.assemblycare.org to the glide site

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Makes sense. On #3: yep, shouldn’t be too hard. I’m not an expert on hosting and migration, but you’re probably going to have to change your DNS settings with your hosting provider to point to the subdomain you’re entering in Glide. Then you can just install WP on the main domain and you should be good to go.

I would assume that your hosting provider could also help you out with that.