# Seovyn-hosted site

> No website yet? Seovyn writes one from your description (home, services, about and contact pages), hosts it, and publishes every approved article to it. In beta on Pro and Scale.

If you don't have a website, Seovyn writes one and hosts it for you: a home page that works as your landing page, the pages your kind of business needs, an about page, a contact page and a blog. It works on phones, and every article you approve is published to it automatically. There's nothing to install or keep up to date.

> [!NOTE] Beta, on Pro and Scale
> Seovyn-hosted sites are in beta and part of the Pro and Scale plans. Sign up on Free without a website and your address is kept for you; the site is built, pages and all, as soon as you upgrade. A site built before 4 October 2026 keeps working on any plan.

## Create your site

Choose **I don't have a website yet** when you sign up and tell Seovyn your business name and what it does, with a phone number (and whether it's on WhatsApp) and the area you work in if you like. Or, later, pick **No website yet?** on the **Publishing** page. Then:

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### Name it

The **site name** is your business name. The **tagline** (optional) is one line under it on the home page. The site's description comes from your [brand voice](/docs/brand-voice), so fine-tune the wording there.

### Pick its address

Your site gets a free address on `seovyn.site`, such as `yourbakery.seovyn.site`: lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. You can point your own domain at it later.

### Build it

Choose **Build my site**. It's live in moments, and Seovyn treats it as your website from then on. Articles you've already approved go out with it.
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## Your pages, written for you

Within about a minute of building the site, Seovyn writes its pages from your description: a home page with a clear heading, reasons to choose you, your services, a few questions customers ask, your latest articles and a call to action; a page for what you offer (a menu, services, treatments, products, whatever fits); an about page; and a contact page. **Your pages** on the site's card shows them, each with **View**.

Seovyn writes only what you've told it. It never makes up prices, reviews, years in business, awards or opening hours: where it doesn't know, it writes around it ("Ask us for a quote").

- **Ask for a change.** Say it as you would to a person: "Add a page for our catering service", "Make the home page shorter", "Add a question about delivery areas". Give prices, reviews and hours in the request and Seovyn can use them.
- **Write them all again** rewrites every page from your description.
- **Earlier versions** keeps each version, by you or by Seovyn; **Restore** puts one back (and that can be undone too).

## What's on it

- **A home page** with your name and tagline, the sections Seovyn wrote, and your latest articles.
- **Your articles,** each with its cover image, at `/blog/…`, `/compare/…` or `/features/…` depending on the page type.
- **Everything search engines look for:** a sitemap, an RSS feed, canonical addresses, structured data, and an `llms.txt` for AI assistants. New articles are sent to IndexNow automatically.
- **A contact page,** if you add business details (below).

Every approved article is added as soon as you approve it, and refreshes and new links between articles update it too. If an upload fails, Seovyn retries, and your site keeps serving what it had in the meantime.

## Change how it looks

Once the site is live, its settings card has **Visit site** and lets you change:

| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Tagline** | The line under your name |
| **About** | A few sentences about your business on the home page |
| **Brand color** | Your color, or **Use automatic** |
| **Show "Published with Seovyn"** | A small link in the footer. Off if you'd rather not |

**Save changes** updates the live site.

## Business details and the contact page

Under **Business details**, add your phone, WhatsApp number, email, street address, the area you serve and your opening hours. They appear on your contact page and in the footer, with **Call** and **WhatsApp** buttons on phones, and they're given to Google as your business listing details.

Turn on **Contact page with an enquiry form** and visitors can write to you from your site. You get each message by email, and see them all under Business details.

## Use your own domain

Your own domain is on the Pro and Scale plans. A domain already set up keeps working if you move to Free.

Under **Your own domain**, enter an address you own, such as `blog.yourcompany.com`, and choose **Add domain**. Then:

1. **Add the DNS record shown** at your domain provider: usually a `CNAME`. For a bare domain like `yourcompany.com`, where most providers won't accept a CNAME, add the `A` record shown instead. Some domains also need a `TXT` record; if so, it's listed.
2. **On Cloudflare,** set the record to **DNS only** (grey cloud), not proxied.
3. **Wait.** Seovyn keeps checking, even after you close the page, and switches your site over as soon as the record is in place and the certificate is issued. **Check now** checks immediately.

DNS changes can take a while to spread. Until your domain is live, your site stays on its `seovyn.site` address. Once it's live, the free address sends visitors to your domain.

> [!TIP]
> Most providers want only the first part of the name, such as `blog` or `www`, in the record's name field, not the whole domain. The dashboard shows the short form.

**Remove domain** puts the site back on its free address.

## Taking articles down

From [Cleanup](/docs/cleanup), a hosted site supports both ways of retiring an article: **Take it down** removes it from the site, and **Hide from Google** keeps it on the site but tells search engines not to index it (and takes it out of the sitemap and feed).

## Take the site down

**Take the site down** removes the site and its address. Your articles stay in Seovyn, and you can build a new site or connect another platform any time.