How SIF Indexing Helps ALwrity Understand Your Business
- lekhakAI
- Aug 14
- 4 min read
Once ALwrity has finished indexing your website, you'll see a "Test your indexing" section in your dashboard with sample questions like, "What is the main product?" or "List the pricing plans."
But what exactly is happening behind the scenes? This guide explains what this feature does, how to read your results, and how to tell if ALwrity is learning your content correctly.
Once ALwrity has finished indexing your website, you'll see a "Test your indexing" section with sample questions like "What is the main product?" or "List the pricing plans." This page explains what that feature is doing, how to read its results, and how to tell if it's working correctly.
What is SIF Indexing?
Before ALwrity's AI can answer questions about your business, it needs a way to find and understand your content. SIF (Semantic Intelligence Framework) indexing reads your website's pages and stores them in a searchable semantic index.
Think of this as a memory bank for your content that captures the actual meaning behind your words, not just the keywords.
This is the exact same mechanism that powers the rest of ALwrity (like content planning, persona generation, and SEO insights), so it's highly worth your time to verify it captured your site accurately! 1
What Does "Test Your Indexing" Actually Do?
When you click a sample question, ALwrity runs a semantic search across your indexed pages and returns the most relevant passages. It’s important to note two things:
It retrieves; it doesn't generate. The answers you see are real snippets copied word-for-word from your own pages. There is no "made-up" AI content here—every answer traces back directly to a URL you actually indexed.
It matches meaning, not exact words. A question like "How does the platform work?" can successfully find a page that describes your product's workflow, even if you never explicitly use the phrase "how it works."
How to Read a Result
Each answer ALwrity provides is displayed in three parts. For example:
#1 · score 0.82 [https://www.yoursite.com/pricing](https://www.yoursite.com/pricing) Start with a free plan that includes 10 projects…
The Ranking (#1): Results are ordered from most to least relevant.
The Score (0.82): This is a relevance (similarity) score from 0 to 1. The higher the number, the closer the match.
The URL & Snippet: The exact page on your site the snippet came from, alongside the matching text.
How to Tell if it's Working Correctly
Run a few sample questions and check these three indicators of a healthy index:
The Right Page: The top URL should be highly relevant. A query about "pricing" should return your pricing page, not your homepage.
A Confident Score: A strong top hit usually scores roughly 0.7 or higher.
Different Answers: Different questions should return different top pages. If every single question routes back to your homepage, your index is likely too shallow.
Understanding the Relevance Score
Don't panic if you see a lower score. Here is a quick cheat sheet on what those numbers mean:
0.7 – 1.0 (Strong Match): The page is clearly and directly about what you asked.
0.5 – 0.7 (Moderate Match): The content is related, but it might not be a perfect, direct answer.
Below 0.5 (Weak Match): This is the closest thing in the index, but it's not necessarily on-topic.
Note: A low score doesn't mean the feature is broken! It usually just means that specific topic isn't well covered by the pages that are currently indexed.
Why Are Some Answers Weaker Than Others?
The precision of your answers depends mostly on how much of your site was indexed. ALwrity indexes a limited number of pages per run (based on your subscription tier), prioritizing the most important ones. If a niche question returns a loose match, it's often because the perfect page wasn't included in the index yet.
To improve your results:
Make sure your site has a working sitemap.xml so ALwrity can easily discover all your pages.
Keep your most important pages (pricing, features, use cases) accessible and clearly written.
Re-run indexing after you publish significant new content.
Common Questions
Are the answers AI-generated, and could they be wrong?
No. "Test your indexing" only retrieves existing text from your pages—it never invents or hallucinates content. You can always click through to the source URL to confirm the snippet really exists on your page.
Why does clicking a question take a moment?
ALwrity is doing some heavy lifting, computing the semantic match between your question and every single indexed page in real-time.
What if I see "No results found"?
Your content hasn't been indexed yet, or the index is empty. Wait for indexing to complete, or retry it from your SIF panel.
Can I ask my own question instead of using the samples?
Absolutely! The sample questions are just a quick way to validate the index. The exact same underlying search powers ALwrity's other AI features, so if you have a healthy index here, it means the rest of the platform deeply understands your business too.
Put your index to the test. Log in to your ALwrity account today and try asking a few questions to see SIF indexing in action. If you run into any snags, our support team is always here to help!
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