Site Map Guide
This guide explains how content is structured for human navigation and machine crawling. It focuses on stable URL strategy, content freshness, and explicit linking between related pages.
URL design principles
- Use short, descriptive slugs.
- Avoid frequent slug changes after publication.
- Keep one primary canonical URL per page.
Crawling considerations
- Each index page should link to child pages with clear labels.
- Important pages should receive links from multiple internal contexts.
- Broken links and redirect chains are reviewed periodically.
Structured coverage
Method pages define rules, policy pages define constraints, and log pages record changes. This separation helps crawlers identify which text is normative and which text is historical.