# Add and remove sites

> How to add a site to SEOFix, what counts as one site, how many sites each plan includes, and what happens when you delete one.

Source: https://seofix.ai/help/adding-sites · Category: Sites & firewalls · Updated: 2026-10-08

To add a site, go to **Sites → Add site**, enter the address (for example `example.com`) and choose **Add site**. Agents can do the same with `create_site` (MCP) or `POST /v1/sites`. The Free and Starter plans include 1 site, Growth includes up to 30.

## Add a site

1. Open **Sites** (or the **Dashboard**) and choose **Add site**.
2. In **Website**, enter the address. You can type `example.com`: SEOFix assumes `https://` when you leave out the scheme.
3. Choose **Add site**. You land on the new site's page, where you can run an audit and verify ownership.

The audit starts from the site's home page. It crawls at 2 requests per second by default.

Agents and scripts:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.seofix.ai/v1/sites \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SEOFIX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}'
```

```json
{
  "id": 42,
  "url": "https://example.com/",
  "host": "example.com",
  "verified": false,
  "monitoring": "off",
  "max_pages": 500,
  "max_rps": 2,
  "alert_email": true,
  "verify_token": "…",
  "verify": {
    "url": "https://example.com/.well-known/seofix-verify.txt",
    "content": "seofix-verify=…",
    "content_type": "text/plain"
  }
}
```

MCP: `create_site` with `url`, and optionally `max_pages`, `max_rps` and `alert_email`. `list_sites` and `get_site` read them back (`GET /v1/sites`, `GET /v1/sites/{id}`).

| Field | Rule | Default |
|---|---|---|
| `url` | A public `http` or `https` address | required |
| `max_pages` | Pages per audit, 1 up to your plan's limit | 10,000 or your plan's limit, whichever is lower |
| `max_rps` | Requests per second, 0.5–10 (above 3 needs a verified site) | 2 |
| `alert_email` | Email the team when an audit finds new errors | `true` |

You can also add sites in bulk from Google Search Console. See [Connect Google Search Console](https://seofix.ai/help/connect-google-search-console.md).

## What a site is

A site is one origin: a scheme, a host and, if it is not the default, a port. SEOFix drops any path you enter, so `https://example.com/blog` becomes `https://example.com/`.

- **One host per site.** A team can have only one site per host. Adding the same host twice returns `409 site_exists`.
- **`www` and the bare domain.** During an audit, links between `example.com` and `www.example.com` count as internal, and the crawl follows a home page redirect from one to the other. Add the host your home page actually ends up on.
- **Subdomains are separate sites.** `blog.example.com` is its own site and uses its own site slot. In an audit of `example.com`, links to `blog.example.com` are checked as external links, not crawled.
- **Ownership is per site.** Each site has its own verification token. A DNS TXT record on `example.com` can verify any subdomain site, but each site needs its own record value. See [Verify site ownership](https://seofix.ai/help/verifying-site-ownership.md).

## Site limits per plan

| Plan | Sites | Pages per audit | Scheduled monitoring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | 500 | No |
| Starter | 1 | 10,000 to 500,000, [by page tier](https://seofix.ai/help/plans-and-credits.md#pages-per-audit) | Yes |
| Growth | 30 | 250,000 to 500,000, [by page tier](https://seofix.ai/help/plans-and-credits.md#pages-per-audit) | Yes |

When the team is at its limit, **Add a site** shows "Your plan includes N site(s)" and the form is disabled. The API answers `403` with error code `plan_limit_sites`:

```json
{"error": {"code": "plan_limit_sites", "message": "Your plan's site limit has been reached."}}
```

Remove a site or upgrade to add another. Plans and prices are on the [pricing page](https://seofix.ai/pricing).

Some limits also depend on ownership, not only on the plan. Until a site is verified, audits are capped at 500 pages and 3 requests per second, and monitoring stays off. See [Verify site ownership](https://seofix.ai/help/verifying-site-ownership.md).

## Change a site's audit settings

On the site page, the **Audit settings** panel sets the **Page limit** and **Speed (req/s)** used by manual runs and scheduled monitoring. Choose **Save settings**. Speed is "Capped at 3 until verified" and goes "Up to 10 when verified".

Agents: `PATCH /v1/sites/{id}` with `max_pages`, `max_rps`, `alert_email` or `monitoring` (`off`, `weekly`, `daily`), or the MCP tool `set_monitoring`.

## Remove a site

1. Open the site's page.
2. Under **Danger zone**, choose **Delete site**.
3. Confirm with **Delete site**.

Monitoring stops and the site leaves your sites list. Its past audit reports stay available under **Audits**. Removing a site frees its slot for another one.

If the site is connected to Cloudflare, SEOFix first deletes the firewall rule and the TXT record it created in your zone. If Cloudflare refuses, the delete is refused with `409 cloudflare_connected`, so no skip rule is left in your zone without anyone managing it. Fix the token in Cloudflare or disconnect first, then try again. See [Connect Cloudflare](https://seofix.ai/help/connect-cloudflare.md).

Agents: `DELETE /v1/sites/{id}` answers `204`. There is no MCP tool for deleting a site.

## Related

- [Verify site ownership](https://seofix.ai/help/verifying-site-ownership.md)
- [Connect Google Search Console](https://seofix.ai/help/connect-google-search-console.md)
- [Let SEOFix through your firewall](https://seofix.ai/help/firewall-allowlisting.md)