How to index your website with a sitemap
Import your sitemap so Orchly crawls and indexes your site, keeping your agents current with everything you publish.
Your website is already your biggest knowledge base. Importing your sitemap lets Orchly crawl and index everything you’ve published, so your agents know your existing content and don’t rewrite what you’ve already covered or contradict it.
You’ll find it under Content & Action → Brand Knowledge, in the Website Sitemap section.
Import your sitemap
Add your sitemap URL, usually yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, and Orchly discovers your pages from it and crawls them. Each page’s content is indexed into your knowledge base alongside anything you’ve uploaded.
If you’re not sure where your sitemap is, it’s often linked in your robots.txt, or your CMS exposes it automatically (WordPress, Webflow, Framer, and most others generate one for you).
Why it’s worth doing
Indexing your own site gives agents a real picture of what you’ve already said:
- They can link to your existing pages instead of inventing URLs.
- They avoid duplicating content you’ve already published.
- They stay consistent with your established positioning and facts.
- A refresher agent knows the current state of a page before it updates it.
Once your site is indexed, link-focused agents can suggest genuinely relevant internal links, because they actually know what pages exist. It’s what makes the Link Enricher useful. See what are Orchly agents.
Keep it fresh
Your site changes, so re-index periodically (or on a schedule, if available) so the knowledge base reflects what you’ve published recently. An index that’s months out of date will have your agents referencing pages that have since changed.
The sitemap pulls in your published web pages. For internal material that never gets published, like decks, research, and spec sheets, use knowledge base uploads instead. Most teams use both.