Setting up your Property

To get all the benefits of TollBit, including our analytics and bot paywall feature, the first and most important step is to add and set up your properties.

Adding a Property

When you first log in to your org, you will be taken to the property overview page. If you don't have any properties configured, you will see this form that you can use to create your property. Create your property by giving it a name and inputting the domain name, i.e. example.com for your property.

Once you've added your property, we will automatically fetch your sitemap through your robots.txt to determine your site's layout.

Verifying a Property

Once you create a property, we need to verify your ownership of the domain before we can continue with your TollBit integration. Once you have created a property and invited the necessary team members, you will see the property verification page below:

In your domain's DNS settings, create a TXT record for your top level domain (example.com, not tollbit.example.com. This might be a field called "name" or "host" when creating this record). Copy the TXT record value from the TollBit dashboard (it will look like tollbit-domain-verification=...) and paste it into the TXT you created.

As part of verification, we will also set up the tollbit subdomain in your registrar. This allows users to easily access the content mirrored on your main website. This will not affect your main website's SEO, load times, etc.

Navigate to your DNS provider and create a new NS record for the subdomain. If your main website were www.example.com or example.com, the subdomain must be tollbit.example.com. Point the NS records at the following domains:

ns1.edge.tollbit.com

ns2.edge.tollbit.com

ns3.edge.tollbit.com

ns4.edge.tollbit.com