## **Overview**

Two common issues can affect your Site Matrix experience: your sitemap displaying **preview.builder** URLs instead of your custom domain, and irrelevant companies appearing as auto-suggested competitors. This article walks you through how to resolve both issues step by step.

## **Why Your Sitemap Shows preview.builder URLs**

When your website is built on a hosted website builder, the sitemap may default to the builder's staging or preview domain rather than your live custom domain. To resolve this, you need to ensure your custom domain is set as the primary domain in your website builder's settings, then regenerate your sitemap and re-submit it inside Site Matrix so it can crawl the correct URLs.

1. Log in to your website builder and navigate to your domain settings.
2. Confirm your custom domain is marked as the primary domain and that the preview or staging domain is not set as default.
3. Regenerate your sitemap from your builder's SEO or sitemap settings.
4. Copy the updated sitemap URL — it should now begin with your custom domain.
5. Inside Search Atlas, open Site Matrix and locate the sitemap settings for your project.
6. Paste the updated sitemap URL into the appropriate sitemap setting and save your changes.

If the sitemap URL still shows a preview domain after completing these steps, contact your website builder's support to ensure the sitemap generation is tied to your custom domain, then repeat the steps above.

## **How Auto-Suggested Competitors Are Generated**

Site Matrix automatically suggests competitors based on keyword overlap and search visibility data. If your project domain is new, not yet fully indexed, or operates in a niche vertical such as iGaming, the algorithm may surface companies from broader or adjacent industries before it has enough data to refine its suggestions.

This is expected behaviour during the early stages of a new project. The solution is to manually manage your competitor list by removing irrelevant suggestions and adding the specific competitors that matter to your business.

## **How to Manage Competitors in Site Matrix**

To update your competitor list, navigate to your project inside Site Matrix within Search Atlas and locate the competitor management area for that project. From there you can remove any auto-suggested competitors that are not relevant to your niche and add or pin the competitor domains you want to track. Once saved, Site Matrix will use your updated competitor list going forward.

If you are unsure where to find the competitor management area in your current account view, or if the option does not appear as expected, please have the following ready when reaching out for help: your project name, your custom domain, and a brief description of the competitors you are trying to add or remove.

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type **human teammate** to be connected with a member of our team.