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, you will be taken to the property overview page. This is where you will be able to view all the properties under
your organization and add new ones. Adding a new property is as simple as clicking on Create Property and adding your property's domain.
Once you've added your property, we will automatically fetch your sitemap through your robots.txt to determine your site's layout.
Much of our functionality relies on a well formatted robots.txt file and a
sitemap that is kept up to date.
Verifying a Property
We can now move on to verifying your domain. In your home page, you will see a string in the form of tollbit-domain-verification=....
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)
and copy and paste the value of that string there.
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
You can now click the verify button on your home page to finish the verification process.