Onboarding is deliberately short — two steps, and one of them is just typing a name.
Step 1 — Name your workspace
Every SeoSwift account belongs to a workspace. Even if you fly solo, the workspace is the box that holds your sites, your team (current or future), and your billing. The name is how your account appears to teammates; you can change it later in Settings.
Step 2 — Look around a sample site
A new account is free and starts with three sample sites, so the second step simply shows you one of them and takes you to the Dashboard. More about them below.
Adding your first real site
Real crawling starts once you subscribe. Then add a site from the Dashboard: paste the URL (we'll add https:// if you forget), optionally give it a friendly name like "Acme Store", and we start crawling right away. You'll get an email when the baseline crawl is done. You'll also tick one checkbox confirming you're authorized to audit the domain — you own or operate it, or have the owner's permission. It keeps our crawler pointed only at sites that actually want the attention.
www or not?
The very first crawl locks in your www / non-www preference based on where your URL redirects, so future crawls stay consistent. Add the canonical version of your domain if you have a preference.Exploring on the free plan? Meet the demo sites
Free accounts come with three demo sites — fictional businesses like GlobalTech Inc and London Retail Co — preloaded with a week of crawl history telling a little SEO recovery story (health climbs from rough to respectable). Every screen works exactly like it would with real data: severity badges, the Timeline, health drill-downs, the lot.
- Demo sites are read-only and never actually crawled — their data is sample data.
- Nothing is hidden: you can see every feature, and paid features show a friendly subscribe hint instead of a locked door.
- Once you subscribe, you can add real sites and delete the demo ones whenever they've outlived their welcome.
Still stuck? Email hello@seoswift.io; a person reads it. Or see what SeoSwift costs.