Add Your Project

A project in Evergreen represents a single website you want to analyze. Each project gets its own visual sitemap, content audit, and analytics dashboard.

Creating a Project

1. From your team or personal dashboard, click New Project
2. Enter your website domain (e.g., example.com)
3. Select your website type and categories
4. Confirm your sitemap (auto-detected, or entered manually)
5. Configure localization, if your site is multilingual
6. Set content strategy goals and preferences

Evergreen will automatically detect your sitemap and import your site's favicon.

Domain resolution

When you enter a domain, Evergreen fetches it to determine where your site actually lives, following any redirects to their final destination. For example, entering evergreensite.com will resolve to www.evergreensite.com if that's where the domain redirects. Evergreen uses this resolved domain — not what you typed — as your project's domain, so your sitemap URL and project settings always match your site's real address. You don't need to enter the final URL yourself.

Sitemap detection follows the same resolved domain: if a common sitemap path redirects (e.g. /sitemap.xml to /sitemap_index.xml), Evergreen records the final URL after redirects as your project's sitemap location.

Localization

If your website is available in more than one language, turn on Yes, multiple locales on the localization step. You'll then choose:

• Locale structure — how locales are encoded in your URLs: subdirectory (yourdomain.com/fr), subdomain (fr.yourdomain.com), or top-level domain (yourdomain.fr).
• Default locale — the locale (e.g. en, en-US, fr) Evergreen treats as the primary version of each page. Its URL, title, and description are what's shown by default in the Content Map. This defaults to en if left blank.

Multilingual support requires a paid plan. Single-locale sites can skip this step entirely.

You can change your default locale or locale structure at any time from Project Settings → Localization. See Settings.

Project Settings

After creating a project, you can configure:

• Website URL — The root URL to crawl
• Sitemap URL — Custom sitemap location (auto-detected by default)
• Crawl depth — How deep the crawler should go
• Page limit — Maximum number of pages to crawl
• Content categories — How to classify your content
• Localization — Multilingual toggle, locale structure, and default locale

What Happens Next

Once your project is created, Evergreen will:

1. Discover pages from your sitemap or by crawling your site
2. Analyze content for SEO health, readability, and structure
3. Generate a visual sitemap showing your site's architecture
4. Run a content audit with actionable insights

The initial crawl typically takes a few minutes depending on your site size.

Note: The entire setup process takes less than 10 minutes. You can always customize settings later.