Connect your website or blog
Point byline at your site once and it keeps reading: every new post, and every edit to an old one, lands in your brand memory without you re-uploading a thing.
What comes in
byline reads the posts and pages your site publishes:
- The headline, the full text of the piece, the date it went out, and the author where your site lists one.
- It reads the words, not the wrapper. Menus, sidebars, ads, and image clutter are stripped away, so what byline keeps is the writing itself.
- This is your finished, published work, which is the cleanest signal for how you actually sound. It goes straight into your voice.
Connect your site
In byline, open Connect and add your website. Paste your site's address:
https://yourname.com
That is usually all you need. byline finds the list of pages your site keeps (most blogs and site builders publish one automatically) and starts reading your most recent posts. If you already have the direct link to that list, you can paste it instead and byline will use it.
From there it checks back on its own. You do not have to tell it when you publish.
Your writing, not audience signal
A website is pure you: your essays, your posts, your words, with nothing else mixed in. byline treats everything from your site as brand voice, the same memory your AI tools draw from when they write as you.
It does not pull comments or view counts from your site, because a page list does not expose them. Think of it this way: your website teaches byline how you write, while your social channels are where it learns what your audience responds to.
Updates are noticed
byline does not read a post once and forget it. When you publish something new, it gets picked up on the next read. When you go back and edit or expand an older piece, byline notices the change and re-reads it, so your memory reflects the current version and not the one from launch day.
A big back-catalogue fills in over time
If you have been writing for years, byline does not try to swallow the whole archive in one gulp. It works through your back-catalogue in batches across several reads, so a deep archive takes a little while to fully land. You will see your published count climbing as it goes.
Nothing gets skipped or double-counted along the way, even a flurry of posts you published in the same minute. It reads steadily until your archive is in.
Not supported yet
- Comments under your posts (Disqus, WordPress comments, and the like). byline reads your writing, not the discussion beneath it.
- Page views and traffic numbers from your site.
- Sites that only appear once a browser builds them. A few modern site builders publish nothing readable on their own, so if your posts never show up, that is usually why.
- Sites with no page list but a feed. If your site offers a feed instead, support for that is on our list, just not live yet.