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title: "Manage sites and settings"
description: "Organize the Sites portfolio, switch between properties, update classification, and pause or resume monitoring."
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markdown: "https://crawlraven.com/docs/sites-and-settings.md"
product: "CrawlRaven v2"
last_verified: "2026-08-19"
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# Manage sites and settings

> Organize the Sites portfolio, switch between properties, update classification, and pause or resume monitoring.

This guide documents current CrawlRaven v2 behavior. UI labels are written exactly where relevant. Bounded Search Console rows are evidence, not guaranteed exhaustive totals.

## Use the Sites portfolio

The Sites page is the account-level view. Each active card shows a click sparkline, click total and comparison, opportunity count, last update, and any status that needs attention. Connected but unactivated properties appear separately as sites ready to activate.

- **Search:** Find a site by name or domain.
- **Sort:** Favorites first, Name, Clicks, Growth, Growth %, Decline, Opportunities, or Freshness.
- **Movement:** Show All, Growing, Declining, or Needs attention sites.
- **Tags:** Filter the portfolio to one label saved in Site Settings.
- **Favorite:** Select the star on a site card to pin it within the default order.

## Switch sites and protect visible data

On desktop, use the current site selector at the top of the sidebar to jump to another activated site, or choose All sites. The sidebar can collapse to an icon rail; use its collapse button or press Command/Ctrl+B.

Use the privacy toggle in the app chrome before sharing your screen or taking a screenshot. Privacy-sensitive values such as domains, queries, page URLs, names, and emails are obscured while the toggle is active. The theme control switches between the available visual themes without affecting report data.

## Edit brand terms and tags

1. **Open Settings** — Inside the site sidebar, select Settings.
2. **Maintain Brand terms** — Add or remove the variants that should classify a query as branded.
3. **Maintain Tags** — Add labels such as client, owned, ecommerce, or side-project.
4. **Return to Sites** — Tags appear on the site card and in the portfolio tag filter.

> **Use a small tag vocabulary:** Reuse the same labels across sites. “client” and “clients” become separate filters, so a consistent naming convention keeps the portfolio useful.

## Pause or resume monitoring

After the site has completed its initial report setup, open Site Settings, select `Pause monitoring`, and confirm. Pausing stops scheduled refreshes immediately. Existing data remains available, and the site stays in the account with a Monitoring paused label. A site still preparing its first baseline cannot be paused yet.

> **Pausing does not free a site choice:** Activation and monitoring are different. A paused site still uses its permanent activation and any access attached to it. Resume the same site from Settings or the Google accounts page; do not try to activate it again.

If Google access expires, use `Google accounts → Reconnect Google`. If the property permission itself was removed, restore Owner, Full, or Restricted access in Search Console first, then reconnect.