Your website and its settings

Each website you add gets its own page, and that page is where the site's identity, its rules and its switches live. It is reached from Website overview in the sidebar.

Website overview

The list of sites you own or manage. With none, it says so and offers to add one. With sites, each row opens that site's page.

Adding another site here does not add it to this workspace. As the page explains: "One workspace, one site. Adding another here creates a workspace for it and takes you there."

The site's page

Headed with your domain and the line "Manage redmonark.com, its guest post rules, and who can submit to it." <!-- example -->

Site strength

At the top, a card described as "How the web sees this domain — partners see these same numbers when you propose swaps."

It shows the domain's rating out of 100, how many sites link to it, the total number of links, and a spam score. These are the figures a potential swap partner sees when you propose a trade, which is why they sit here rather than being buried in the audit. Authority explains what moves them.

What do you want to do with this site?

The checklist, introduced as "Finished steps first, then what to do next. The audit unlocks once the site is verified."

Five items, each showing where it stands. Finished ones carry a Done badge and a sentence saying what that means. Unfinished ones carry Do this next and a button.

Verify you own this site. Done reads "Done — redmonark.com is yours, and no other account can claim it." <!-- example --> See proving your site is yours.

Accept guest posts. On reads "On. Writers can submit articles to this site — your rules are live and shown to them before they write.", with a Rules button. Off tells you where to turn it on. See opening your site to guest posts.

Swap links with other sites. On reads "On. Other sites can ask to trade links with this one." Before verification it reads "Unlocks once the site is verified — partners only swap with proven owners."

Check the site's health. The audit: "Rankbench reads your pages and lists what's broken and what to fix first, in plain English." See running the site audit.

Plan a month of articles. The calendar: "A rolling content calendar built from what people already search for." It waits for the audit, because the plan is built from what the audit found.

Settings

The Settings section holds the site's own details.

Verification sits at the top, showing either the four proofs or a confirmation that ownership is settled.

Website details is described as "Update your site profile and collaboration preferences." Under Website are the address ("Use your homepage URL.") and the name. Under Audience & topics, described as "Help other site owners understand your audience.", are a description of what the site is about, the main reader location, the language, and a topic picker.

Collaboration options, "Choose which requests this site can receive.", holds three switches:

• Guest posts: "Review guest articles before publication."
• Link swaps: "Swap links with approval from both sites."
• Paid collaborations: "Agree terms for sponsored placements."

They are per site, not per account, so a workspace with a site that takes guest posts and another that only swaps links is normal.

Custom submission link hides the slug used in your public submission address. Leave it alone and Rankbench builds one from the name.

Save website settings commits the lot.

Guest post access

Below the settings form.

Public submission link is the address writers use, with "Share this link with guest writers." and a Copy link button.

Accepting submissions shows the current state, "Guest post submissions are open." or paused, with a button to change it. Pausing takes a reason, which writers see instead of the form.

Archive website is the end of the road: "Remove it from active work and stop all new submissions."

Guest post rules

Its own section, covered in writing your guest post rules.

If you are an SEO agent

An agent invited to help with a site sees a narrower version of this page, with a line explaining the boundary: "You can manage content details and collaboration options. The site identity and administrative controls are managed by the owner."

See people and roles for what each role may do.

Where to go next

For the workspace-level settings that sit above the site, read workspace settings. To bring somebody in to help, read people and roles.