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Setting up a site takes two steps: add it, then prove you own it. Once it’s verified, ChatFeatured submits its pages straight away and then every Sunday. See Index submissions for what gets submitted and when.

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Step 1: Add your website

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Open Index Submissions

In the sidebar, go to Website → Index Submissions.
2

Click Add Website

Enter a Website Name (any label, such as “Marketing site”) and the Website URL (example.com).
3

Click Add Website again

The site appears with a Pending verification badge, and the setup dialog opens. If you close it, click Start verification on the site card to come back.
Add subdomains such as blog.example.com as their own site. You can have 2 sites per project.

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Step 2: Verify ownership

The setup dialog asks What platform is your site built on? and gives you the steps for that platform. There are two ways to verify, and both put a key file at your site’s root.
You add a 301 (permanent) redirect from a path on your site to a key file ChatFeatured hosts. The dialog shows a Redirect rule with a From path (/<key>.txt) and a full To URL, each with a copy button.Where to add the redirect:
  • Framer: Site Settings → Redirects → Add redirect, then publish your site.
  • Webflow: Site Settings → Publishing → 301 redirects, then publish your site.
  • Squarespace: Settings → Developer Tools → URL Mappings. Add a line in the format /source -> destination 301.
  • Wix: Marketing & SEO → SEO Tools → URL Redirect Manager.
  • Ghost: Settings → Advanced → Redirects. Download the redirects file, add a 301 entry, and upload it again.
  • Shopify: Content → Menus → View URL Redirects → Create URL redirect. Paste the From path into Redirect from (keep the leading / and the .txt) and the To URL into Redirect to, then Save redirect.
  • Other (redirect): use the redirects or rules section of your host, CDN or DNS provider.
When the redirect is live, click Submit for verification.
On success you see “Website verified!”, the badge changes to Active, and the first submission starts.
Leave the file or redirect in place. Every Sunday’s run checks it again before submitting, and fails if it’s gone.
If you connect the WordPress integration, ChatFeatured adds the site here and verifies it through the plugin, so you can skip these steps.

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Track submissions

Each verified site has a card showing the verification method, when the last submission ran, how many URLs it sent, the countdown to the next one, and the key file URL. Click Submission history to see the last 5 runs with their status and URL counts. Runs triggered by publishing an article are marked on publish. View submitted URLs lists every URL in a run, with any error in red under it. The badge next to the site name shows Pending verification, Active, Submitting…, Error (open Submission history for the reason) or Inactive (submissions are turned off). The ⋯ menu on an active site has Resubmit now (submit the whole site again now), Edit verification (reopen the setup dialog, for example to switch methods) and Delete.

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Troubleshooting

The file isn’t at your site root, or the redirect isn’t live. Open the key location URL in a browser. With a redirect, it should land on ChatFeatured and show the key as plain text. Check that the From path and To URL match the dialog exactly and that the redirect is saved or published. On Shopify, make sure the From path isn’t an existing page.
Bot protection, such as a Cloudflare challenge, is stopping automated requests from reading the file, even though it opens in your browser. Allow requests to the key file’s path through without a challenge, then verify again.
This is normal right after verification. ChatFeatured retries on its own and submits your URLs once it clears.
Still stuck? The setup dialog has Book setup call and Contact support (support@chatfeatured.com).
Last modified on October 21, 2026