Frequently asked questions
Including the ones whose honest answer does not flatter us. If something you need is missing, ask us directly — the reply comes from a person, in English or Italian.
Ownership and trust
Yes, for the parts that can be owned. The domain is yours. The content is yours. And the Google Search Console property is created inside your own Google account, in your name, so it stays yours with its sixteen months of history even if you leave.
What stays with the platform is the hosting and the generation — the same way an agency's CMS licence or hosting account would. If you leave, you take your domain and your text and rebuild elsewhere. That is the ordinary cost of leaving any platform, and it is better said now than discovered later.
Google penalises content made primarily to manipulate rankings, whoever or whatever wrote it. Its published guidance judges usefulness, not authorship. Thin pages spun out at scale to catch keywords get hit; a genuinely useful page does not become spam because a model drafted it.
Separately, Timbaly marks every generated page as AI-written for EU AI Act art. 50 transparency. That is a disclosure obligation, not a ranking signal, and the visible notice on the site is yours to switch on or off.
No — and neither can anything else, honestly. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini publish no citation metric and no measurement API. There is nowhere to read that number, at any price.
What Timbaly does is optimize and declare for those engines, and measure what has a real source: Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, PageSpeed and IndexNow. Anyone showing you an AI-citation dashboard is asking the models by hand and tallying replies, which is sampling rather than measurement. The full reasoning.
Analytics are first-party and the aggregate part is cookieless. Fonts are downloaded and served from your own domain rather than linked from Google — because a stylesheet in the head sends every visitor's IP to Google before a cookie banner can ask anything, and no consent script arrives in time to stop it. The cookie banner is configurable per site and it is what blocks third-party scripts before consent.
Cost and commitment
Free is €0 — 15 pages on a platform subdomain, served with noindex. Pro is €19 a month and adds your own domain, unlimited pages, three languages and indexability. Business is €79 a month and adds unlimited languages, unlimited audit scans and scheduled publishing.
Every price is per site, per month. The full comparison.
No. It stays free indefinitely, with no card on file. It is served with noindex because free sites share one subdomain and that noindex is what stops spam from spending the shared domain's reputation. Free is a demonstration you can keep — but it will not get you found.
The subscription runs to the end of the period you already paid for, never cut off mid-month. After that the site drops to the Free plan's limits rather than being deleted. Your domain, content and Search Console history stay yours.
Your site stays online. Stripe retries for several days and most recoveries succeed. De-indexing a live site over an expired card would be an irreversible harm out of all proportion to €19.
No, and deliberately so: pricing is per site with no volume tier, so twenty client sites are twenty ordinary subscriptions with nothing to negotiate and nothing to unpick when one client leaves. What that means for agencies.
Building and editing
In a measured end-to-end run, eleven pages went from the initial form to a published, navigable, illustrated site in 166 seconds. The only manual step is confirming the proposed structure once. The four steps.
Yes — visually in the panel, or by editing the HTML directly, and every change is versioned so you can restore an earlier version. You can also ask Claude or ChatGPT to make the edit for you over the MCP connector.
Yes. Content comes across, existing head tags are localised on the way in, and 301 redirects are managed from the panel so old URLs keep pointing somewhere. A migration is still a migration — worth doing deliberately rather than on a Friday.
It can be: three languages on Pro, unlimited on Business. Translations are linked to each other so hreflang is emitted correctly, and each language keeps its own localized slug rather than a duplicated URL. This site runs the same way — English at the root, Italian under /it.
The privacy and cookie notices are generated from fixed text filled in with your details, and deliberately not written by a model: an invented retention period is not a page, it is an exposure. Each one states at the top that it should be reviewed once by a lawyer. The contact form's consent checkbox is inserted by code rather than left to the model.
Regenerate it, edit it, or roll back to a previous version. Generation is not deterministic — in test runs roughly one page in ten failed on a model loop, and that page stays in the plan with a Retry rather than taking the run down with it.
Fit
Three cases, stated plainly:
The full comparison with an agency, including the cases where the agency wins.
No. Nobody can, and anyone who does is selling something else. What is deliverable is findability: an indexable site on your own domain, the technical files, structured data, the Search Console connection, and pages written to be quoted. Whether you win a given query depends on your market.
The difference is what happens after launch. A template builder hands you a site and stops; here the site scans itself, proposes concrete edits you approve, and turns the queries that already bring impressions into the next pages to write. That is the part that reliably does not get done otherwise.
A small team in Turin, Italy. The longer answer, including why the product refuses to report numbers it cannot source.
The free plan answers most of these faster than we can. No card, no countdown, and the site is yours to look at for as long as you like.