Your Public Website

Exlitem can host a public website for you at your own subdomain — a polished landing page sourced from your profile, designed to help attorneys and search engines discover you outside the Exlitem directory.

#How your site gets created

Your site is generated either when you opt in from the Expert Dashboard, or when the Exlitem team builds one on your behalf as part of admin-assisted onboarding (typically after a verification call or a CV submission).

In both paths the generation pipeline runs the same way:

1. We parse your CV and existing profile fields.
2. We assign you a subdomain (slugified from your name; deduplicated if it collides with another expert).
3. We render a website skeleton with sensible defaults — bio, credentials, accomplishments, photo.
4. We save it with search engine indexing turned off, so the page is reachable at its URL but invisible to Google until you decide to publish.

#Reviewing your site before you publish

Once your site is generated, you land on the reveal at /expert/website-reveal — one animated screen that shows your finished site. If our team pre-built it for you, the reveal skips straight to showing the site; if it's still generating, the reveal waits and transitions in as soon as it's ready.

• Publish — makes your site live at its public URL. For a claimed profile, publishing also turns on search-engine indexing by default.
• Decide later — leaves the site as a draft and takes you to your dashboard; you can publish anytime from Dashboard → Website.

Whether search engines may index your live site is a separate SEO control ("Allow search engines to index my site") in the builder's SEO tab.

Screenshot

The /expert/website-reveal page. An animated reveal of the finished expert site with an action bar at the bottom: two buttons, 'Publish' (primary) and 'Decide later' (secondary).

#Editing your site

Open Dashboard → Website to customise it any time. You can:

• Switch between templates
• Edit each section's content (intro, credentials, awards, publications, contact)
• Adjust the theme (colors, typography)
• Regenerate any AI-written copy with one click

Changes save automatically. If you've already published, edits go live as soon as Google re-crawls your subdomain.

#URL format

Your site lives at {your-subdomain}.exlitem.com. The subdomain is shown on the Website tab of your dashboard and on the review page.

If your generated subdomain doesn't feel right (typo, abbreviation, etc.), contact us before you publish — we can change it without breaking links since nothing is indexed yet.

Tip: Until you click Publish, the site is reachable at its URL but Google won't surface it in search results — useful for sharing a private preview with colleagues without committing to public ranking.