Indexing your content

Your chat answers from your pages: that is what DigiSeerDigiSeer has read, or indexed, on your site.
The Indexing page shows you what it knows, and lets you choose what it should read or leave aside.

An item is a page, a post or any other content published on your site.
Media, drafts and private content are not included (see What is indexed).

The list

Columns and sorting

• Each row shows the title, type, language, status, modification date in WordPress and indexing date.
• Clicking a column heading sorts the list by that column; a second click reverses the order.
• The language shows once the item is indexed (“—” before).

Counters and filters

At a glance, the counters at the top tell you where your site stands.
Clicking one of them filters the list (a bubble on hover explains each one; a counter at 0 is greyed out):

• Indexed: up to date in DigiSeerDigiSeer;
• To re-index: modified in WordPress since it was last read;
• To index: not read yet;
• No longer published and Excluded.

In the list, the status is shown with a coloured dot:

• green for Indexed;
• blue for To index;
• orange for To re-index;
• dark orange for No longer published;
• grey for Excluded.

You can also filter by text (title or address), type and language, and reload the list with the Refresh icon (↻), to the right of the filters.

Pagination

Beyond 25 items, the list is shown in pages.

• The pagination bar is at the top right, on the Index all line (and at the bottom when there are several pages).
• It contains ‹ Previous, Page 1 / 3 and Next ›, the number of items (for example “1–50 of 111”) and Per page: 25, 50 (default), 100 or 200.
• This choice is kept in your browser.
• Search, filters and the order of the list apply to all items, not just the page shown.
• Changing a filter or the search takes you back to page 1.

Index all

The simplest way: the Index all button, above the list, has DigiSeerDigiSeer read everything To index or To re-index, with nothing to select.

• Excluded items are left aside.
• Items already up to date are not redone.
• The number in brackets is the number of items concerned.

No surprises: an Index N items? window first shows you an estimate:

• the number of items;
• the expected tokens;
• the tokens you have left this month;
• the estimated overage (paid plans) or a warning that the chat would pause (Free).

Once you confirm, we do the work in the background.
You can close the page: a box shows you the progress when you come back.

During any indexing, whatever started it, an Indexing: 8 / 25 badge shows at the top of every page of the application.
Changed your mind? The Stop button, next to the progress bar, stops the indexing after you confirm.

• Items already indexed are kept.
• The others stay To index or To re-index: start them again whenever you like.
• Automatic updates continue for the pages you edit.

The first indexing starts in one click, from the Getting started box on the Dashboard, within the plan's content limit (see Plans): pages first, then the most recent.
Here too, a First indexing box offers you this button as long as nothing is indexed.

When we improve the way DigiSeerDigiSeer reads your pages, we let you know:

• a DigiSeerDigiSeer now reads your pages better box announces it;
• its Index N items button reads your content again to benefit from it.

Choosing the content

Would you rather choose yourself?

1. Tick the items, or the header box to select those on the page shown.
2. As soon as an item is ticked, the bar above the list turns light pink and offers the possible actions: Index selection, Do not index, Include again, Remove from the index.
3. Click Index selection, then confirm.

Selection across pages

• The selection is kept from one page to the next: the number shown in Index selection counts the items ticked on all pages.
• When the header box ticks the whole page, a message says so, for example: “The 50 items on this page are selected. Select all 111 items”.
• Click this link to select all the items in the list (after filters).
  The message then becomes “All 111 items are selected. Clear the selection”.

How it runs

• Up to 20 items, the selection is indexed by the page itself.
  If you leave the page before the end, a confirmation warns you that the remaining items would not be indexed.
• Beyond 20 items, the selection also goes through the estimate and background indexing, which carries on with the page closed.
• Each item is summarised then split into passages, which the AI reads to answer.
• Excluded or unpublished items are skipped.
• Curious about what DigiSeerDigiSeer kept? The eye icon, just before the title of an indexed row, shows the text it read and its indexing history.

Content removed from WordPress

• An item unpublished, moved to the trash or deleted in WordPress is removed from the index automatically: your chat no longer mentions it.
• If automatic indexing was turned off, or the plugin deactivated at that time, it shows as No longer published and the chat can still use it: tick it, then click Remove from the index.
• A page deleted in WordPress shows as No longer published, even if it was excluded: it should be removed from the index.
• An item that has become empty is removed from the index.

If a page seems badly read

Some page builders store the text where DigiSeerDigiSeer cannot always read it.
Don't worry: we spot it for you, at each indexing.

• A ⚠ To check mark shows next to the title of the page concerned.
• On hover, a tooltip gives the reason:
  • “This page looks empty.”: almost no text, apart from the title, categories and SEO data;
  • “This page contains codes from your page builder.”: for example [et_pb_text] (Divi) or [vc_row] (WPBakery).
• The same explanation shows in the eye window.
• Above the counters, a N page(s) to check box counts them.
• Show these pages lists only them; Show all items goes back to the full list.
• Write to support opens a new request, already filled in with the list of pages.

The mark goes away by itself when the page is read correctly at the next indexing.
A page that only contains the DigiSeerDigiSeer chat (search page) is never flagged.

To help us find the cause, add the plugin diagnostic to your request (see Support).

What is indexed

DigiSeerDigiSeer only reads what your visitors can already see:

• public content: pages, posts and public custom post types;
• their categories and taxonomies, added to the text (“Categories: Help > Housing”);
• their ACF fields;
• their SEO data: title, description and focus keyphrase from your SEO plugin.

Never read: drafts, private or password-protected content, revisions, media, menus, theme templates and page-builder libraries.

Number of indexed items

Each plan allows a number of indexed items per site (see the Pricing page).

• Beyond that, new items are not read: the estimate tells you before starting, and the Indexing page shows “Your plan allows … indexed items per site” for them.
• Don't worry: items already indexed stay up to date.
• Index all takes pages first, then the other items from the most recently modified to the oldest.

To choose yourself:

1. Remove from the index the items you don't need.
2. Tick the ones you want.
3. Click Index selection.

See Plans.

Tokens

To read your pages, DigiSeerDigiSeer uses AI: this consumes tokens, counted in the site's monthly quota (with the answers) on paid plans.
On the Free plan, indexing is on us: only answers count towards the quota.

See Tokens and quotas.