05 · Sitemap and search description

The sitemap is built from the same data as the stream, so it has no way of drifting from reality. An entry scheduled for next week does not reach it, an entry hidden with its series does not either, and a published entry reaches it without anyone remembering to add it.

Every page carries its own title and description. An entry may give a description separately — different from the excerpt shown on a list — because the sentence that draws a reader on the page and the sentence that makes sense in search results are rarely the same sentence. Where no separate description exists, the engine takes the excerpt.

The canonical address is always emitted. With a family of language instances that is not a detail: without it, two versions of the same text start competing in results instead of complementing each other.