The live site is the brief

Start from a URL you already own, not from a blank theme

Paste a public address. Eqlo reads what a stranger can already fetch and drafts a new tree from those pages. You keep the URLs that earn. You drop the ones that never had a job. This is a starting move, not a promise that every pixel survives.

A public URL pasted as the brief, with the live homepage and a first sitemap beside it

When a blank project wastes a week

You already have pages people know

A new services tree invents /about-us while /about still ranks. Starting from the live URL makes the old sitemap visible before you write a sentence. The redesign guide is the longer argument about 301s. This page is the first hour: get a draft that knows the current tree.

The current site is a shell

If view-source is empty, the import will still see what the first HTML holds: often a title and not much else. That is useful. It tells you the rebuild is also an indexation job. Run the index-check tool on the same address before you decide the old site is "fine".

You only wanted a moodboard

Import is not a pixel-perfect copy. It is a reading of public pages so the first Eqlo tree is not generic. If you need a clickable argument with no migration, use prototyping and say so in the first line.

Walkthrough

A practice site, imported on a Tuesday

The brief was the live URL, not a mood sentence. Eqlo listed Home, Team, Fees, and a contact form that still pointed at a personal mailbox. The walkthrough kept /fees and /team, dropped a blog with three posts from 2019, and put a real intake sentence on Contact. No revenue number is attached. The useful output was a tree that already knew the addresses.

  • 14public URLs seen
  • 4pages kept in the draft
  • 1blog retired on purpose
Draft sitemap after importing a public URL, with kept pages marked and a retired blog set aside

What the import is for

A first tree that remembers the live site. Not a clone, not a ranking guarantee.

Public pages only

The address must be fetchable without a login. A tool behind a password is the wrong door. Internal tools start from the loop you already run, not from a URL scrape.

A tree you can cut

Keep, merge, retire. Write the map before you publish. The redesign page is the checklist for redirects. Import is how the draft begins with names you already use.

Copy you will replace

The first sentences will still be a draft. Your prices, your hours, your town. Import saves you from inventing the IA again. It does not publish for you.

Import, redesign, blank sentence

Three doors. They are not the same Tuesday.

Import from a URL

You have a live site and you want the first Eqlo tree to know it. This page. Then you correct in English.

Redesign without losing URLs

You already rank and the look is tired. Read that guide before you publish. Import can feed the draft. The 301s are still your job.

A sentence with no old site

You are new, or the old URL should die. Use the website builder or a template. Do not import a competitor and call it yours.

I wanted the live tree in the draft, not a generic five-page salon. The useful hour was marking /fees as keep before anyone picked a typeface.

WNWalkthrough notePractice manager, constructed example

Questions about starting from a URL

Will Eqlo copy my images and my theme?

It reads public pages to propose a tree and a draft. It is not a pixel-perfect clone and it is not a licence to lift someone else's photos. Use your own files before you share the preview.

Can I import a site I do not own?

Do not. A public URL is still someone else's work. This tool is for an address you are allowed to replace. Scraping a competitor into Eqlo is not a brief we will help you finish.

What if the old HTML is empty?

The draft will be thin, which is the point. Run the index-check tool. If the first response has no H1, the rebuild should put words in the first HTML, not only a new coat.

Is this the same as the index-check tool?

No. Index-check reports title, H1s, JSON-LD and word count on a fetch. Import uses a URL as the start of a project. You can run both on the same address.

Bring the live URL. Cut the pages that have no job.

Five free projects is the plan once seats open. The redesign guide is the companion if those URLs already earn.