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New website setup: start with the URL.
Adding a website is now a short guided setup. Enter the address, choose the sections and languages to index with real page counts, skip pages with plain-language rules, pick a crawl schedule, and turn your site's sections into segments.
Ulrich Svarrer, Thomas Bogh and Mads Rued Schleicher
4 min read
The first minutes with a new site set the tone for everything after. Adding a website to Morrison is now a short guided setup, and it starts with one thing: the address.
Start with the URL
Type the domain. Morrison checks that the site can be reached, shows its icon and title, and suggests a name from the address. If the site cannot be reached right now, you can still continue.
From there, a stepper takes you through three steps: Website, Indexing and Crawl schedule.
Choose what to index
Morrison reads your sitemap and groups the pages into sections, the folders such as /blog or /guides, each with its real page count. Switch a section on or off, open it to choose subfolders, and hover a path to see example URLs. If your site uses language paths, tick the languages you want. Pages outside any section are always included.
No sitemap? Let Morrison follow links from a page instead, or paste a list of URLs.
Rules in plain language
For finer control, add rules that read like sentences: Skip pages where the page path contains /print/, or Only index pages where the page path starts with /en. Choose starts with, is exactly, contains or ends with, and use a custom pattern only if you want to. Each rule shows how many pages it matches as you type, so there are no surprises.
See the total before you start
The start button shows how many pages will be indexed, and a note tells you whether the selection fits your plan. Change a section and the numbers follow.
Keep it fresh
Pick how often Morrison checks for new and changed pages: monthly on Starter, or weekly, every two weeks or monthly on Pro and Business. Or index once and turn a schedule on later in Data Sources.
Segments, ready made
Once indexing starts, a live feed shows pages arriving. Morrison also suggests segments from the sections it found, one per section. Name them and create them in one go, then head into the app while the crawl finishes. The segments are ready for the URL list and for workflows.
Try it
Add a new website and the setup starts with its address. The whole setup takes a few minutes. More on what happens next on the Site index page.
Tell us how it went at hello@morrison.app.